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SRINAGAR, May 10: Omar Abdullah has termed the current Union Territory setup in Jammu and Kashmir the “worst form of government” and called for an urgent restoration of full statehood, while noting progress with the Centre on transaction of business rules. Speaking to the reporters, Abdullah said a dual ...

Vladimir Putin's Russia has signalled its readiness to take Iran's enriched uranium as part of a peace deal in the Middle East. Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow had offered to facilitate peace in the region by "playing a role" in the removal of the uranium, which forms ...

#Pakistan News Fumes from factories, traffic exhaust and construction dust; It creates a toxic mixture that turns breathing into an endurance test for Loni's 700,000 residents.Manoj Kumar, 45, who has lived in Loni all his life, said.Forget coughing, it's hard to breathe here" he summarized the situation.Saying that pollution ...

Dasht, Balochistan, Pakistan – Karim Baksh bends down to a narrow channel of water, guiding it with his hands through shallow mud channels towards a row of ripening watermelons growing.In Dasht, a remote village in the southern part of Balochistan, geographically Pakistan’s largest province, Baksh’s crops for years depended on ...

As Gulf routes that have long formed the backbone of Indian airlines’ international networks are hit by the ongoing regional conflict, aircraft utilisation at domestic carriers has dropped sharply.At Air India Express, for example, nearly a quarter of the fleet is effectively idle. “About one in four aircraft of ...

Three years after he fled Iran, Diako Alavi is getting by with little scraps of information about his large family living in cities and towns in the country’s northwestern Kurdish-majority areas. The internet and communication blackouts that accompanied the regime’s recent crackdown on protests have left him reliant on ...

Hurricanes and floods in South and East Asia last fall killed 1,750 people and caused damage worth about $25 billion, while the deaths resulting from a forest fire in California amounted to about 400 people, and the value of damage was about $60 billion, according to research related to ...

Thirty-five-year-old Haroli Shekhar lives in a village in Raichur, one of Karnataka’s poorest districts.Every day, seven members of his large family of landless labourers go out seeking work. Sometimes, they labour at construction sites, but most of the time they end up finding work under the Mahatma Gandhi National ...

Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad was the most polluted city in the country in November, registering an average PM2.5 concentration of 224 micrograms per cubic metre, according to a report by the think tank Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.PM2.5 refers to tiny airborne particles that are about 30 ...

As communities struggle to rebuild, many have little time to grieve the immense losses they have suffered.  Since June, over six million people in Pakistan have been affected by what have been described as “unusually heavy monsoon rains” which have claimed nearly 1,000 lives, including about 250 children.Residents are ...