Tag: Asia
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Schools to close as air pollution hits record high in Pakistan’s Lahore | Environment News
Unprecedented air pollution levels prompt authorities to take emergency measures. Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore will close primary schools for a week after it saw “unprecedented” pollution levels, government authorities have said. For days, the city of 14 million people has been enveloped by smog, a mix of fog and pollutants caused by low-grade diesel…
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Mohammad Yunus can go down in history as the architect of a new Bangladesh | Opinions
After mass protests forced long-term Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee the country in early August, Bangladesh found itself in a unique moment of opportunity to chart a path towards true democracy. The interim government that was put in place to deal with the legacy of Hasina’s 15-year authoritarian rule is led by…
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India’s coach Gambhir blames flat wickets, T20s for poor Test batting | Cricket News
‘The more T20 cricket is played, the less people will start defending,’ Gambhir says after his team’s poor batting in the home series loss against New Zealand. Batsmen have forgotten how to defend in Test cricket because of the T20 game, says India coach Gautam Gambhir as his team look to avoid a 3-0 home…
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Canada accuses India’s Amit Shah over campaign targeting Sikh separatists | News
Ottawa says the close ally of India’s PM is involved in an intimidation campaign against Sikh separatists on Canadian soil. Indian sources call the allegations ‘flimsy’. Canada has accused Indian Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah of being behind a campaign of violence and intimidation targeting Sikh activists, in a move likely to extend a…
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Current climate pledges by nations ‘miles short’ of 2030 goal, UN body says | Climate Crisis News
The world’s current climate pledges would only cut emissions by 2.6 percent by 2030, says the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. National pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions fall significantly short of those needed to limit catastrophic global warming, says the United Nations before climate change negotiations next month. The “nationally determined contributions” (NDCs)…
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Bangladesh’s new outcasts: Students from ex-PM Hasina’s party now in hiding | Sheikh Hasina News
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Since early August, Fahmi*, 24, who used to be a dominant figure on the sprawling campus of Dhaka University in Bangladesh’s capital, has been in hiding. Fahmi was a member of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), the student wing of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League (AL) party that ruled over…
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Pakistan thrash England to win Test series after Noman, Sajid heroics | Cricket News
Pakistan beat England by nine wickets inside three days in the third Test to seal a 2-1 series win in Rawalpindi. Spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan suppressed England’s batting attack inside three days to earn Pakistan a long-awaited series-clinching nine-wicket win in the third and final Test in Rawalpindi on Saturday. The 38-year-old left-arm…
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China’s Xi and India’s Modi meet after border accord between two countries | Border Disputes News
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping hold talks on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have held their first formal talks in five years, a sign that icy relations are thawing after a deadly military clash in 2020. The two…
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India says it reached deal with China on army patrols along disputed border | Border Disputes News
The pact is part of a resolution to the four-year standoff at the contested border areas, India’s foreign ministry says. India and China have agreed to a pact on military patrols along their disputed border in the Himalayas that could lead to the resolution of a conflict that began in 2020, according to the Indian…
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Gunmen kill seven people working on key tunnel project in India’s Kashmir | Infrastructure News
It is the second attack on non-local workers in the disputed region since a local government was sworn in last week. Gunmen have killed seven people working on a strategic tunnel project in Indian-administered Kashmir and injured at least five others, officials say, in one of the worst attacks in the disputed region this year…