Timber mafia robbing Bhaderwah region of its forest cover
Bhaderwah (Jammu-Kashmir), Feb.7 : Even as the issue of climate change has alarmed countries across the world and serious efforts are on to increase green cover everywhere, local authorities in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district are ignoring the widespread felling of trees.
Source: New Kerala
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Killed for protecting forests in Kashmir?
Sonaullah Zargar, a 30-year-old forest activist, who was dedicated to protecting the Sukhnag Forests in Budgam, was found dead in the Valley. His body was found near a stream a week ago. Initially Zargar's...
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PM warns about crime in region
ST JOHN’S – Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has told regional police commissioners that organized crime has created a great deal of fear, uncertainty and anxiety amongst Caribbean people already...
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Sandalwood mafia kills forest officer in Andhra
Forest officer P Satyanarayana was beaten to death in the forests in Adilabad.
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Chinese Embassy presents BRDM armed vehicle to Kharkiv region department for crime control
The Embassy of China in Ukraine in consideration of solving a crime, the kidnapping of a Chinese woman, has passed a BRDM light armored vehicle to the department of organized crime control of the Interior...
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US saw mafia-ridden Italian region as 'failed state,' according to WikiLeaks cables
ROME - A U.S. official has said in a diplomatic cable that the southern Italian region of Calabria would be a "failed state" were it not part of Italy, thanks to the pervasive grip of the 'ndrangheta...
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Anti-mafia sweep nets Italian regional politician
Reggio Calabria, Italy - Police in Italy on Tuesday arrested 11 people - including a regional official from the party of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - all allegedly linked to the Calabrian version...
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Global Digest: Forest Fight Turns Brutal for Russian Journalists
Journalists in Russia have long faced often brutal retaliation for their reporting into organized crime and the corruption of public officials. Now that violence appears to be hitting journalists reporting...
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Lonely in the region
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: gajendra singh <kgajendrasingh@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:36 PMSubject: Lonely in the regionTo: Gajendra Singh <kgajendrasingh@gmail.com>...
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A looming multiple crisis in Af Pak Region
A looming multiple crisis in Af Pak Region  Agha H Amin The Afpak region is facing multiple crisis:-- 1-Taliban versus Americans which will finally translate into Taliban versus the whole region....