In preparation for Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s peace initiative to ensure free movement on Manipur’s national highways from March 8, Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla chaired a high-level review meeting at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday.
The three-tier Panchayat elections in Chhattisgarh have ushered in a historic shift in the democratic landscape of Bastar, a region that was once considered a Naxal stronghold.
Efforts to end the devastating war that has been going on for three years may have failed so far, but at the Mahakumbh on the sands of Sangam, foreign saints from Russia and Ukraine will come face to face in the same camp to chant and meditate for peace.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday emphasized the transformative changes in India’s North Eastern region over the last decade, asserting that peace has been restored in the region in the last ten years and the focus must now shift to building an industrial ecosystem.
''In the coming days, we will be discussing both de-escalation as well as effective management of our activities in the border areas,'' he said, making a statement in the Lok Sabha on India-China ties and the border understanding reached in October.
The Minister said that Sharda Peeth has been a historical center of India's cultural, religious and educational heritage.
The police action came almost over three weeks after Amritpal's supporters clashed with police personnel at the Ajnala police station
Most countries, particularly developing and poorer countries, want peace to return immediately to this troubled region, both because they recognize the wider dangers of conflict escalation and also because they are already suffering from this conflict in various ways.
The two countries must also observe bilateral agreements and refrain from any unilateral attempt to change the status quo on the borders, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said at a media briefing.
The 2022 Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) annual conflict study reported that in 2021, 54 state-based conflicts occurred in 35 countries, with nearly 85,000 battle-related deaths.
