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Pakistani families forced to fund education as state falls behind
Updated : 2 months ago IST
According to a new report launched at a national policy dialogue families spent an estimated PKR 2.8 trillion on education, overtaking the government's allocation of Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 2.23 trillion.
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US lawmakers accuse China of leading global illegal fishing, warn of threa
Updated : 2 months ago IST
US lawmakers accused China of leading illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through its distant-water fleet. They warned this threatens global food security, marine ecosystems and US national security. The report also alleged forced labour abuses and called for stronger Coast Guard act
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ETGE marks Uyghur genocide recognition and remembrance day, cites continue
Updated : 2 months ago IST
In a statement shared on the social media platform X, ETGE recalled that on January 19, 2021, the United States officially determined that the People's Republic of China was committing genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in Occupied East Turkistan, a
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Tibetan youth empowerment meet in Italy spotlights China's forced assimil
Updated : 2 months ago IST
The programme was jointly organised by the Tibet Bureau Geneva and the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) of the CTA, in collaboration with the Eurac Research Centre, underscoring the CTA's leadership in empowering Tibetan youth to counter China's repression in Tibe
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Bihar: Mithilanchal storyteller Shravan Das Ji Maharaj arrested in minor r
Updated : 2 months ago IST
Renowned storyteller Shravan Das Ji Maharaj from the Mithilanchal region has been arrested in connection with a minor rape case, police said on Monday.
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UAE ratifies International Forced Labour Protocol
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
On January 15, the United Arab Emirates ratified the ILO Protocol of 2014 to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, becoming the sixty-third country worldwide and the second among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council to ratify this instrument. With this ratification, the UAE is demonstrating
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“Take the world as it is”: Terry Milewski says Canada’s China pivot reflec
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Canadian journalist Terry Milewski has described Canada's renewed engagement with China as a matter of hard-nosed pragmatism rather than ideological choice, arguing that Ottawa is being forced to recalibrate its foreign policy in an increasingly unstable and autocrat-driven global order.<
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Pakistan: Zero outages claim crumbles as citizens face hours of power cuts
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Lesco had stated that it was supplying uninterrupted electricity to all areas except those connected to feeders with significant line losses.
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J-K: Eight months on, flood-hit Udhampur village still awaits restoration
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Despite the Jal Shakti Department restoring most flood-damaged water projects in the region, the piped supply serving Ritti village has yet to be repaired. As a result, villagers are forced to walk one to two kilometres every day to fetch drinking water, significantly affecting daily life
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Winter crisis: Delhi High Court reviews steps taken to house patients' att
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
The Delhi High Court on Friday closely reviewed the steps taken by civic bodies, hospitals and government authorities to provide shelter and basic facilities to attendants of patients forced to stay outdoors near major government hospitals during the ongoing winter crisis.
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Ayatollah regime tortured me to say "I am a spy of the United States": Jou
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
Amid widespread anti-governmental protests continuing across Iran, which its current regime dismissed as "foreign-backed", Iranian-American journalist Ahmad Batebi on Thursday slammed the Islamic Republic for making such claims, saying that he was coerced to declare himself a spy for the
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"Iranians are asking outside world for urgent help," says Iranian activist
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
In an emotional account of her personal sufferings during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Iran at the request of the United States at UN headquarters in New York City, she echoed millions of protesters who are on the streets as protests on failing Iranian currency snow
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