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Millions of people in South Asia are being pushed into extreme poverty as the region where a quarter of humanity lives suffers its worst-ever recession due to the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank said on Thursday. The multi-lateral lender forecast a ...

NEW DELHI: Millions of people in South Asia are being pushed into extreme poverty as the region where a quarter of humanity lives suffers its worst-ever recession due to the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank said on Thursday.The multi-lateral lender forecast a record economic ...

Draconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing “unchecked powers” to authoritarian regimes across Asia, human rights experts are warning. In a report out today, privacy analysts warn that “extreme measures and unchecked powers” brought in to tackle Covid-19 could become permanent features of government across the ...

Desperate refugees crammed into cockle-shell boats landing on the shingle beaches of the south Kent coast are easily portrayed as invaders. Anti-immigrant demonstrators were exploiting such fears last weekend as they blockaded the main highway into Dover Port in order “to protect Britain’s borders”. Meanwhile, the home secretary, Priti ...

Minus 23.9 per cent. The figures are out. The reality is stark. The economy is shrinking, and there doesn’t seem to be a coherent plan of action to bring us out of the economic vandalism wrought by a combination of demonetisation, botched GST implementation, and the Covid lockdown. A ...

Author: Zaynab KhojjiID: 1599334156099122800Sat, 2020-09-05 22:48 NEW DELHI: Ahmed Toweb says his life has taken a turn for the worse since Aug. 31 last year, when his name was left off the National Register of Citizens (NRC), a 7-year-old program to identify “genuine” citizens in India’s eastern state of Assam. “I’ve ...

Floods triggered by heavy rains continued to wreak havoc in South Asia, the one of the world's most densely populated geographical regions, pummeling countries that have already been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the monsoon season began, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Nepal are among those being affected ...

KABUL, AfghanistanIllegal mining costs the Afghan government millions of dollars in revenue every year, the UN said Tuesday. In its latest National Human Development Report on mineral extraction in Afghanistan, the UN Development Program said the war-ravaged country could have collected over $100 million from minerals in royalties and export ...

KABUL, AfghanistanIllegal mining costs the Afghan government millions of dollars in revenue every year, the UN said Tuesday. In its latest National Human Development Report on mineral extraction in Afghanistan, the UN Development Program said the war-ravaged country could have collected over $100 million from minerals in royalties and export ...

Kuala Lumpur , Aug 9 (ANI): Twitterati from across the world has lashed out against the former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for raising the Kashmir issue in one of his tweets on the first anniversary of the abrogation of Article 370. He tweeted, "Now that I am no ...