Recent Examples on the WebConverting Kashmir into a union territory was a show of brute majoritarianism, a demonstration that India can downgrade its only Muslim-majority state.—Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2019 This party had no compunctions in signing off on Modi’s plan to downgrade Kashmir from a state to a union territory even as the party campaigns for Delhi to be transformed from a union territory to a state.—Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2019 Aksai Chin’s importance is entirely political; China claims it as part of Xinjiang, its westernmost territory, while India claims it as part of the Ladakh union territory.—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023 Old Delhi, now a historic city, is north of New Delhi in the same union territory.—USA TODAY, 24 May 2023 In January this year, the union territory of Puducherry, which neighbors Tamil Nadu, implemented a similar program.—Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2023 The union territory of Delhi, of which capital city New Delhi is a part, has been hard-hit by the new wave of the pandemic.—Rishabh M Pratap and Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021 Last year, the union territory recorded 24 incidents of disruption, the highest for a single region anywhere in the world, according to Surfshark, a virtual private network provider.—Quartz, 19 Jan. 2023 The reorganization bill increases New Delhi’s authority over the region, changing it from an autonomous state into a union territory.—CNN, 13 Sep. 2022
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