Poland – Climate change impacts in Eastern Europe and Central Asia currently cost billions of dollars in lost productivity and could keep mounting over the next few years, according to a new report released at the climate summit. “New risks from climate change threaten to derail (…) advances and challenge national efforts to reach targets outlined in the 2030 Agenda… Read more »
The death toll among Afghanistan’s security forces will not be sustainable, even with the stalemate in the fight against Taliban militants, according to the Pentagon’s pick to be the next head of US Central Command. “Their losses have been very high. They are fighting hard, but their losses are not going to be sustainable unless we correct this problem,” Lt Gen… Read more »
A car bomb exploded outside a security contractors’ compound in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, opening the way for gunmen who battled security forces only hours after President Ashraf Ghani outlined plans for peace in Afghanistan. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which hit a compound of the British security group G4S , near… Read more »
An Indian activist who made a failed attempt to become the first woman to enter a prominent Hindu temple this month has been arrested for “exposing her thigh” in a Facebook photo. Rehana Fathima, 32, has been suspended from her job and was remanded in custody over the picture, which showed her dressed as a pilgrim to the Sabarimala shrine… Read more »
A woman in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh is in critical condition after she was set on fire by two men who had allegedly molested her days earlier. She was reportedly on her way to lodge a complaint with the police on Saturday when the attack occurred. The woman is alleged to have been previously turned away by police…. Read more »
The recent killing of an American missionary who tried to contact an isolated tribe on a remote Indian island has revived a debate within the evangelical movement over the extreme lengths that some missionaries are willing to go to in hopes of spreading their faith. In the time leading up to his fatal mission last month, John Allen Chau was… Read more »
One day at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year in the rural Rishi Valley region of Andhra Pradesh, India, two dozen children in Grades 1 through 5 gathered quietly around four tables on colorful mats on the floor of their one-room school, working with books and worn laminated materials. Few looked up when I walked in. Their school has… Read more »
Recently, India sent up a new satellite into orbit, which is their largest and most advanced satellite, which weights 12,906 pounds. It was sent it up with help of a French rocket, and is said that it will provide internet access to many of the rural areas of India. Currently, “There are more than 440 million internet users in India,… Read more »
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s toppled premier likened the president to Hitler on Tuesday (Dec 4) as he demanded to be reinstated, almost six weeks into a paralysing political crisis in the Indian Ocean nation. Ranil Wickremesinghe made the comments – his strongest yet directed at the head of state – at the prime minister’s official residence, which he has refused to vacate since his… Read more »
Cautioning against using children as ‘shield’ during agitations including the recent Sabarimala stir, Kerala Social Justice Minister K K Shylaja Wednesday said the state government would have to take action against such practices. The minister told the state assembly that causing difficulties to children by engaging them in protests was against the Juvenile Justice Act and amounted to violation of… Read more »