More than 20 villages make the ice stupas every winter, which provides 16,000 residents access to water without having to build reservoirs or tanks (AFP photo) HUSSAINABAD: At the foot of Pakistan’s impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water have created their own ice towers.Warmer winters…
NEW DELHI: More than 50 protesters, including women, who had come out in silent solidarity with the hunger strike of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, were detained by police near Ladakh Bhawan in the capital on Sunday. Wangchuk has been on protest fast at Ladakh Bhawan for the inclusion of the Union territory in the Sixth…
NEW DELHI: Ladakh-based climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk is being let off on Wednesday after being detained for nearly 24 hours. Wangchuk and the other Ladakhis had been initially detained on Monday night but were released the next night. However, a senior official told news agency PTI that, they remained resolute in their…
NEW DELHI: Ladakh-based climate activist and education reformer Sonam Wangchuk and over 170 people, who were on way to the national capital as part of their Delhi Chalo Padyatra demanding sixth schedule status for the UT, were detained by Delhi Police at the Singhu border on Monday night for allegedly “violating prohibitory orders”. Wangchuk and…
Delhi chief minister Atishi and LG VK Saxena (File Images) NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Atishi on Tuesday claimed that the police didn’t allow her to meet Ladakh climate activist Sonam Wangchuk, who was detained at 1 am, on the orders of LG VK Saxena and said that this “dictatorship is not right”.Activist and education…
Several opposition leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Arvind Kejriwal, strongly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government for detaining environmentalist Sonam Wangchuk and approximately 150 volunteers.While Kharge described the action against Wangchuk as “cowardly” and “undemocratic,” Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that the BJP would not gain anything from it.Wangchuk and his…
NEW DELHI: As the Delhi police detained climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and other supporters at Singhu border, Rahul Gandhi condemned the act calling it “unacceptable.”“The detention of Sonam Wangchuk ji and hundreds of Ladakhis peacefully marching for environmental and constitutional rights is unacceptable. Why are elderly citizens being detained at Delhi’s border for standing up…
