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With Pakistan's legal challenge still underway and India building hydro-assets and fortifying its strategic position, a ...
Once 60 countries ratify the treaty, a 120-day countdown begins before it officially enters into force. That would unlock the ability to begin designating protected areas in the high seas and put ...
“The diocese has already been working in these areas for the past many years to tackle such issues through its volunteers and free coaching centres across 50 villages of Amritsar and Tarn Taran.
On the March 16, 1846, the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir came into existence in the north of the Indian subcontinent–birthed through the Treaty of Amritsar between the two fully consenting ...
Emphasising the importance of suspending the Indus Waters Treaty, Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil has said India will ensure that not even a "drop of water" from the Indus river goes to Pakistan.
It had so far withstood even wars between the neighbours. The Treaty allocates the Western Rivers (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) to Pakistan and the Eastern Rivers (Ravi, Beas, Sutlej) to India.
Signed in 1960 after nine years of negotiations and brokered by the World Bank, the Indus Waters Treaty is a landmark agreement that outlines the sharing of water from the Indus River and its ...
Suspension of the Treaty in 2025 On April 23, 2025, India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty after a terrorist attack in the Baisaran Valley of Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
Amritsar is a city that greets you with a heady mix of history, spirituality, and food so good it could make a grown adult tear up. The moment you step into its bustling streets, the aroma of ghee ...
Amritsar Temple Blast Case, Accused Gursidak Singh Killed: The deceased has been identified as Gursidak, son of Jagjit Singh and a resident of Bal village, Amritsar. The second accused, Vishal ...
It is this enduring truth of ‘all our relations’ that underpins the vision of our treaty Elders. Kathy Walker is the treaty commissioner of Saskatchewan.
CHANDIGARH: A special US Air Force plane C17 Globemaster III carrying 112 Indians landed at the Amritsar International Airport late on Sunday night. This is the third such flight bringing ...