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Afghanistan's economy contracted by about 20 per cent in 2021: World Bank
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The World Bank report released last week points to a sharp decline in public spending, lower household incomes, and reduced consumption caused aggregate demand to fall. It also highlights disruptions in the payment system and supply constraints further hampered private sector activities, ini
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New HRW report details Taliban abuse faced by Afghan women protesters
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Human Rights Watch released a new report on the mistreatment of Afghan women. Taliban has wrongfully detained a number of women with their families for protesting against them.
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Avoiding extinction: Asian animals found to be thriving near humans
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Queensland [Australia], October 24 (ANI): According to a University of Queensland-led study, some of Asia's largest creatures, like tigers and elephants, are living with people despite trends toward extinction that date back 12,000 years.
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Central Asia identified as a significant region for human ancestors: Resea
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Cleveland [US], October 24 (ANI): A recent study led by Dr Emma Finestone, assistant curator of human origins at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and research affiliate of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, identified the interior of Central Asia as a crucial r
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In a first-in-human trial, FLASH radiation therapy shows promise
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
San Antonio [US], October 24 (ANI): The first-in-human research on a small number of patients with bone cancer reveals that FLASH radiation therapy, which delivers therapeutic amounts of radiation in a fraction of a second, may hold promise as a potential treatment for difficult-to-kill mali
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Excess physical activity, less screen time linked to better function in to
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
"Executive function underlies your ability to engage in goal-directed behaviors," said University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign kinesiology and community health professor Naiman Khan, who led the study with graduate student Arden McMath and food science and human nutrition professor Sharon Do
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74 pc of Bangladeshis think that Chinese govt is repressive towards Uighur
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 23 (ANI): As many as 74 percent of Bangladeshi citizens think that the Chinese government is repressive towards Uyghur Muslims while 24 per cent think that they are being persecuted just because of their religious identity, according to a survey.
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More than 1.5 million children at risk as devastating floods hit Nigeria
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Abuja [Nigeria], October 23 (ANI): More than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance - 60 per cent of which are children - and are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in the past decade, UNICEF warne
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"Kerala is replacing Punjab as drug capital", claims Guv Arif Mohammed Kha
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], October 23 (ANI): Criticising the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Kerala government for its liquor policy, Governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said the state is on the process of replacing Punjab as the "capital of drugs".
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Xi's attempts to mould Buddhism, Islam make CCP a laughing stock
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Beijing [China], October 22 (ANI): Tibet and the Xinjiang region have become prime targets of Sinicization and two assertions of Chinese President Xi Jinping about the regions would elicit a horselaugh.
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Tibetans suffering under authoritarian rule of China
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Lhasa [Tibet], October 22 (ANI): Tibetans called on China to stop human rights violations as they are suffering under the authoritarian rule of Beijing.
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Kerala: Women hacked to death by unknown assailant
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Kannur (Kerala) [India], October 22 (ANI): A 23-year-old woman was hacked to death in Panoor by some unknown assailant, the police informed on Saturday.
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