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Sanjeev K. Sharma JAMMU, Dec 17: Even though the elected body of Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) has completed more than four years in office, solution to the Nallah floods in Ward number 55 is still nowhere in sight. In this regard Councilor of the Ward, Preetam Singh informed that there are 12 Nallahs in his Ward which flood every rainy season and the gushing water enter residential houses inflicting damages while the houses adjoining to these Nallahs are also sinking […] ....
SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE Why a Silk Road Travelogue Is Taking China by Storm Despite China’s massive investment in Central Asia, the region remains an enigma to most ordinary Chinese. But a hit new book aims to change that. Like many in China, Liu Zichao used to consider Central Asia a strange and mysterious land. The former journalist recalls being on an assignment in the western Chinese city of Khorgos in 2010 and a local truck driver telling him that on the other side of the snow-capped mountains ahead of them lay Almaty. At the time, the name meant little to Liu. His knowledge of Kazakhstan, he says, was limited to a vague sense of its history as a stopping point along the ancient Silk Road and its socialist past as part of the Soviet Union. ....
SIXTH TONE SIXTH TONE Why a Silk Road Travelogue Is Taking China by Storm Despite China’s massive investment in Central Asia, the region remains an enigma to most ordinary Chinese. But a hit new book aims to change that. Like many in China, Liu Zichao used to consider Central Asia a strange and mysterious land. The former journalist recalls being on an assignment in the western Chinese city of Khorgos in 2010 and a local truck driver telling him that on the other side of the snow-capped mountains ahead of them lay Almaty. At the time, the name meant little to Liu. His knowledge of Kazakhstan, he says, was limited to a vague sense of its history as a stopping point along the ancient Silk Road and its socialist past as part of the Soviet Union. ....