Search For "severe"
Win-lose debate on climate change replaced by win-win opportunity: expert
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): Amid the severe challenges emanating from climate change, for the first time in human history a new paradigm is possible as the win-lose debate where choose was between development and the environment is being replaced by the win-win opportunity where rapid
Read More
Feeling of detachment after trauma has worse impact on mental health, reve
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 22 (ANI): The presence of dissociation, a profound sense of detachment from one's sense of self or surroundings may indicate a high risk of developing severe post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, physical pain, depression, and social impairment for people who have ex
Read More
20 killed, millions stranded as floods hit Bangladesh
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], June 20 (ANI): At least 20 persons were killed, including cops on Monday after monsoon storms in Bangladesh unleashed devastating floods that left millions of others stranded.
Read More
Car worth Rs 100 mln for PoK President draws flak from activists
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad [PoK], June 20 (ANI): Civil society groups and activists are severely criticizing the move by the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) government over the buying of a new luxurious car worth over Rs 100 million for President Barrister Sultan Mahmood.
Read More
WFP says 7.4 million people food insecure in south Ethiopia amid severe dr
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], June 19 (ANI/Xinhua): Severe drought has caused 7.4 million people to be food insecure in southern and south-eastern Ethiopia, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has warned.
Read More
Job losses in Afghanistan projected to touch 900,000 by mid-2022
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 17 (ANI): As Afghanistan continues to remain under the grip of severe unemployment, a projection warns that the job losses due to the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban are estimated to reach 700,000 and 900,000 by mid-2022.
Read More
Pakistan included in top 23 drought-stricken countries
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 17 (ANI): Pakistan is one of the top 23 countries suffering from a severe drought emergency, a statement issued by the Ministry of Climate Change said on Thursday.
Read More
Beijing under threat of severe COVID-19 outbreak
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 16 (ANI): The authorities in China's capital have warned that a COVID-19 surge due to the bar-related outbreaks was critical and the city is gripped with the most serious outbreak since the pandemic began.
Read More
Activists demonstrate in Tokyo as Hong Kong marks third anniversary of Jun
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], June 13 (ANI): Central Tokyo was a swathe of black and yellow on Sunday, June 12, when activists from Hong Kong marked the third anniversary of the June 12 demonstrations which had called on Hong Kong authorities to withdraw the Fugitive Offenders' bill, and in which the polic
Read More
Bieber diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome: Read to know what health exper
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 11 (ANI): American pop star Justin Bieber, who has been diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, which has caused him partial face paralysis, is a rare neurological condition characterized by paralysis of the facial nerve and a rash affecting the ear or mouth.
Read More
Water crisis: Maharashtra villagers 'risking lives for a bucket of water'
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Melghat (Maharashtra) [India], June 10 (ANI): A group of villagers in Maharashtra's Khadial village hurling their plastic and metal cans, buckets and bottles strung with ropes down a deep well to fetch water is now a common sight. In the peak of summer, the parched residents of the village i
Read More
'Time is short' to prevent global food crisis, says UN on ripple effects o
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 9 (ANI): War in Ukraine has left an estimated 1.6 billion people in 94 countries exposed to at least one dimension of finance, food, or energy crisis, with around 1.2 billion living in "perfect-storm" countries severely vulnerable to all three areas, the policy brief by t
Read More