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Bhagalpur villagers make boat to carry patient to hospital
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Bhagalpur (Bihar) [India], September 2 (ANI): With the lack of proper system to ferry patients to the hospital in a flood-like situation, a patient in Bihar had to be taken for a medical emergency in a makeshift boat on Friday.
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Poverty compels few Sri Lankan women towards prostitution
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 31 (ANI): As Sri Lanka is gripped under a reeling economic crisis, numerous women in the country have changed their professions and turned to prostitution for daily meals.
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Makeshift brothels crop up in Sri Lanka as economic hardship pushes women
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], July 30 (ANI): In Sri Lanka, which is battling a crushing economic crisis, is now facing another predicament with its women, most of them who have lost their jobs in the textile sector, now forced to become sex workers to earn a livelihood.
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'Broker' wins Ecumenical Jury Award for Best Film at Cannes
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Washington [US], May 29 (ANI): At the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Hirokazu Koreeda's Broker, a Korean-language drama about an abandoned child, illegal baby brokers, and makeshift families, won the Ecumenical jury award for best film.
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Beijing building makeshift hospitals
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], April 30 (ANI): Beijing is preparing to construct makeshift hospitals to cope with the latest upsurge of the novel coronavirus, said a press conference Saturday.
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Tripura HC bans animal slaughtering in public places, expresses concern ov
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Agartala (Tripura) [India], February 24 (ANI): The Tripura High Court on Tuesday passed an order banning slaughtering of animals in public places and also directed Agartala Municipal Corporation Authorities to arrange for makeshift facilities where the slaughtering of animals for human consu
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Police raid makeshift godown in Assam's Cachar, 2,500 bags of urea seized
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Cachar (Assam) [India], February 7 (ANI): Cachar district police on Sunday raided a makeshift godown at Bandarkhal under Borkholla police station in Assam.
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Aaditya Thackeray inaugurates bridge in Maharashtra's Nashik, villagers to
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Nashik (Maharashtra) [India], January 28 (ANI): Maharashtra Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Friday inaugurated a bridge in Shendripada, a remote tribal village in Nashik. In the village, people earlier used a makeshift bamboo bridge risking their lives.
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Set up makeshift hospitals, form special teams to monitor home isolation c
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): Amid rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, the Centre on Saturday advised states and union territories to ensure preparedness and asked to start setting up makeshift hospitals and constitute special teams to monitor patients in home isolation.
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Fire breaks out in Jammu's makeshift market
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], December 27 (ANI): A fire broke out in a makeshift market in Trikuta Nagar in Jammu on Sunday night, however, the cause of the fire is not known yet.
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Pakistan: 100 shanties gutted by fire in Karachi town
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], November 21 (ANI): At least 100 makeshift huts were gutted by a fire that broke out in a town near Karachi's Teen Hatti area.
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Column of migrants heading from makeshift camp to checkpoint at Belarusian
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Minsk [Belarus], November 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Numerous migrants staying at a makeshift camp at the Belarusian-Polish border are heading to the inland of Belarus on Monday.
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