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India is considering plans to dramatically increase the water it draws from a major river that feeds Pakistani farms downstream, as part of retaliatory action for a deadly April attack on tourists ...
The Indus supplies 80% of Pakistan’s agricultural water, and the supply is already insufficient, with disastrous salination of the lower reaches of the river as the sea creeps into the areas ...
A recent report by Pakistan’s Indus River System Authority (IRSA ... signed in 1960 and brokered by the World Bank, citing national security concerns. The move, approved by the Cabinet Committee ...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has hit back at Pakistan for claiming China could choke the flow of the Brahmaputra ...
Indus River: The Indus River used to flow in Gujarat from around 4000–2500 BC. According to reports, the Indus entered Gujarat near Vighokot in the Rann of Kutch and through the old Narka route.
Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned India that it would strike any structure that is built on the Indus River in "violation of the Indus Waters Treaty", which was suspended ...
A continuing shortage of water in the Indus River at the Sukkur and Kotri barrages is negatively impacting Sindh's agricultural economy and is expected to affect cotton, sugarcane, and paddy crops ...
As we know, the Indus River civilisation is the oldest in the world and is the earliest urban culture of the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. It is one of the oldest civilisations ...
The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist ...
PREMIUM The Indus is an antecedent river, which means it has existed for ... most familiar to western visitors in the ancient world. In the Rigveda, considered the oldest of the four Vedas ...
Pakistan denied any role in the assault, warning it would consider any effort to interrupt the river’s flow ... deprive it of the Indus’s flows, jeopardizing its economy and food security. Years of ...
Exclusive-India Weighs Plan to Slash Pakistan Water Supply With New Indus River Project By Sarita Chaganti ... The Indus system runs through some of the world's most geopolitically tense areas ...