‘If we keep shrinking its bed, it will definitely enter our houses. How can we call it an angry river, it's not the river’s fault,' said a 23-year-old who lives by the Chenab River.
The train was 100% booked within hours of launch by PM Modi Friday on the eve of Eid-ul-Adha. The return journey is also fully booked, as are the journeys on Sunday.
Initiating the process of flushing now will also impact power generation at Baglihar and Salal, both run-of-the-river hydroelectric projects on Chenab river, it is learnt.
While the Chenab bridge is touted as world’s highest, Anji Khad is India's 1st cable-styled rail bridge. Both will boost rail connectivity in region as well as link it to rest of India.
No one wants a ‘united’ Kashmir. Pakistani leaders refer to ‘self determination’ in Kashmir, but they’re really referring to Indian Kashmiris joining Pakistan.
India is today immeasurably better resourced to make such bets than it was in 1950 or 1954. It has the credibility across divides that Pakistan can never quite claim.
Despite its new avatar, Kerala’s culture remains rooted in socialistic principles. Yet there is growing acceptance to ‘privatisation with participation', observers say.
Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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