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September 16, 2024 5:18 PM
Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Kirti Vardhan Singh, provided a comprehensive update on India's climate change situation and adaptation efforts in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. According to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) r...
July 24, 2024 10:48 PM
A chartered flight carrying 123 Malaysians evacuated from deadly violence in Bangladesh arrived in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, Malaysia's home minister said. Student-led protests against quotas in government jobs in Bangladesh spiralled into violence last week, with at least 147 people killed. Bangla...
September 16, 2024 5:19 PM
UK Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs David Lammy met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, marking a significant step in strengthening bilateral ties between the two nations. This visit, the first high-level engagement by the newly elected Labour government in the UK under Prim...
September 16, 2024 5:19 PM
The Indian government has announced a significant investment of Rs 10,376 crore for railway development in the northeastern region, as revealed by Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw during a press conference in Delhi on Wednesday. In addition to this substantial allocation, Vaishnaw disclosed ...
July 24, 2024 9:11 PM
Iraq has resumed rice cultivation after a two-year ban prompted by water scarcity, and is testing out a strain of the grain that consumes less water than traditionally planted versions. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mahdi Sahar al-Jubouri told Reuters the country has earmarked 150 sq km (58 sq mil...
September 16, 2024 5:19 PM
The Supreme Court of India has directed the central and state governments to develop a rehabilitation scheme for residents facing eviction from railway land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani area. A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta, and Ujjal Bhuyan directed railway authorities and governments t...
September 16, 2024 5:19 PM
A Delhi court has granted bail to Mehrajuddin Bhatt, alias Juber, an accused in the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case, nearly three decades after the incident. Bhatt, who was declared a proclaimed offender in February 1997, was arrested on July 9, 2024. Additional Sessions Judge Hardeep Kaur grante...
September 16, 2024 5:19 PM
The United Arab Emirates has jailed 57 Bangladeshi expatriates for protesting against their home government while in the Gulf country where demonstrations are banned, state media reported on Monday. Three Bangladeshi expatriates were sentenced to life, 53 others to 10 years in prison and one to 1...
July 24, 2024 5:51 PM
Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it had removed about 63,000 Facebook accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion scams mostly aimed at adult men in the United States. Nigerian online fraudsters, known as "Yahoo boys", are notorious for scams that range from passing t...
September 16, 2024 5:19 PM
A new study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggests that combining meal-replacement therapy with financial incentives can lead to greater weight loss in adolescents with severe obesity. Researchers, including Dr. Justin Ryder from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, found that t...
