Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a member of the Taliban for being an advocate for girls education in 2012. Last week was the first time in four years that she had returned to her home country of Pakistan since the incident. At the age of 14 being able to speak out in your country about the flaws… Read more »
A four-storey rickety hotel building collapsed in central India, killing at least 10 people and injuring another three, police said Sunday. Rescuers working through the night with sledgehammers and chainsaws pulled alive 10 people from the debris of the building that came crashing down in Indore, a city in Madhya Pradesh state, on Saturday night, said police officer Sanju Kamle. Up… Read more »
The coming monsoon season could result in “enormous deaths” among Rohingya people from Myanmar living in refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh, a group of international advisers has warned, because the camps are not built to withstand storms. Rights groups say 700,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya have fled violence and crossed the border from Myanmar’s Rakhine state since August and most live in flimsy, bamboo-and-plastic… Read more »
The Indian government has scrapped a plan to blacklist journalists judged to be writing “fake news” less than a day after it was announced to widespread criticism. India’s information and broadcasting ministry said late on Monday that journalists or agencies accused of creating or spreading fake news would be referred to the Press Council of India and another statutory body for broadcast… Read more »
Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Saturday arrived in her hometown of Mingora for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education. Amid tight security, Youzafzai along with her parents landed in the Swat Valley in an army helicopter. According to her uncle Mahmoodul Hassan, Yousafzai went to her home and also… Read more »
In this article from the Fair Observer it goes into further detail on how scientist are using advanced technology to help with environmental problems. One way they are tracking the environments changes like the rate at which glaciers are melting by using technology like remote sensing and tracking from base stations. Pollution has been a major problem with India as they… Read more »
Leaders from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan said a new pipeline being built between their countries is the start of a major new energy, road, and communications corridor connecting Central Asia with South Asia. “South Asia is being connected with Central Asia through Afghanistan after more than a century of division,” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said at the inauguration on February… Read more »
A ceremony to lay a fiber-optic communication line over the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India route was held in Turkmenistan with participation of other countries’ representatives, a source in Turkmen Communications Ministry told Trend. Five international fiber-optic communication lines are linked on the territory of Turkmenistan. Two fiber-optic systems are currently operating in the country: the circular Ashgabat-Mary-Turkmenabat-Dashoguz-Ashgabat system and the radial Garabogaz-Turkmenbashi-Ashgabat-Mary-Turkmenabat-Atamyrat-Ymamnazar system,… Read more »
“Pakistan must stop promoting terrorism and interference in the internal affairs of its neighbours for the SAARC process to be revived”, a source here said when asked for reaction to Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s visit to Kathmanduduring which he sought the Nepalese leadership’s support in reinvigorating the grouping. In a speech during his visit to the SAARC Secretariat in Kathmandu to plant a tree,… Read more »
n this edition of The Interview, Fair Observer talks to Indian Forest Service officer, Kunal Satyarthi. Himachal Pradesh, a hilly state located in the Western Himalayas, has in recent years become more important in India’s mission to move toward a cleaner future and tackle climate change. Himachal Pradesh has a geographical area of 55,673 square kilometers, 33,000 of which is occupied by forests…. Read more »