With countries that are heavily populated, there needs to be more laws or fines of some sort that help support the climate in these countries. With countries that have a high number of population, there needs to be more laws because with no environmental laws in countries like this, there is going to be and there is already a risk… Read more »
Parts of Asia are chocking under a thick layer of smog, leading at least one country to experiment in extreme forms of weather modification in an attempt to clear the toxic brown skies.Thailand, South Korea, China, India and Hong Kong are all facing unhealthy and even hazardous levels of pollution as weather patterns, coal heating and emissions contribute to the… Read more »
Dozens of children and mothers are among the victims of the Easter suicide bombing in a Lahore public park in which at least 72 people have been killed. A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack in Gulshan Iqbal Park. Even though the group said it had deliberately targeted Christians “celebrating Easter”, it has emerged that most of those… Read more »
Severe flooding and landslides in Bangladesh, Nepal and India have prevented around 1.8 million children from attending schools across the region. At least 1,200 people have been killed in South Asia’s worst flooding in years, with more than 40 million affected. Thousands of schools are being used as emergency evacuation shelters and at least 18,000 have been damaged or destroyed by… Read more »
PESHAWAR: Security forces in Pakistan have gunned down four militants, including a top Taliban commander who masterminded the last year’s powerful bomb blast in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in which at least 31 people including three Sikhs were killed. Those killed in the exchange of fire include Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Islam and Mohibullah who were involved in various terror activities, officials said…. Read more »
This group of Rohingya that were to be deported were not the first ones to be deported from India, there was another group that was set to be deported in the span of 4 months, but both of these groups were families that were looking for a safe haven and hoping for a better life than what they had in… Read more »
GUWAHATI, INDIA (REUTERS) – Indian police on Thursday (Jan 3) took a Rohingya Muslim family of five to the border by bus, readying to deport them to neighbouring Myanmar. They would be the second such group expelled in four months during a crackdown on illegal immigrants. India’s Hindu nationalist government regards the Rohingya as illegal aliens and a security risk…. Read more »
NEW DELHI • Mr Vijaypat Singhania thought he was keeping his billion-dollar Indian textile empire in the family when he gifted control of the Raymond Group to his son Gautam three years ago. But their relationship has disintegrated spectacularly since, with the father accusing the son of cheating him out of an exclusive apartment and of unceremoniously kicking him out… Read more »
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA (AFP) – Clashes erupted between Hindu hardliners and police in the southern state of Kerala for a second day on Thursday (Jan 3), after two women defied traditionalists to enter one of India’s holiest temples. Violence across Kerala on Wednesday (Jan 2) left one person dead and 15 injured after news spread that the two women, escorted by police and… Read more »
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India rejected US President Donald Trump’s comments mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, saying on Thursday (Jan 3) that New Delhi has provided US$3 billion (S$4.1 billion) in development assistance to the war-torn country. The US President on Wednesday took a swipe at what he claimed were Mr Modi’s frequent comments… Read more »