Citizens are passing by the ‘SOS Life Phone’ installed on Mapo Bridge in Yeouido, Seoul. Fri 23 February 2024: Based on the most recent data, South Korea has the highest suicide rate among the main advanced nations, with around 13,000 suicides in 2022. The suicide rate among the major developed nations decreased slightly in […]
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Fri 23 February 2024: The Russian Army recruited around 100 Indians at its Moscow recruitment centre over the past year, according to an official who works for the Russian Ministry of Defence, the Hindu reported. While speaking on the condition of anonymity, the official said these recruits were informed about the associated risks before signing contracts for […]
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Thu 22 February 2024: Social media platform X has removed a number of accounts and posts in response to an order from the Indian government. These posts and accounts are allegedly connected to recent farmer protests demanding higher prices for their crops. The site, which was once known as Twitter, stated on Thursday that it […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: Hitting patient care, thousands of trainee medics Tuesday resigned from duty in South Korea to protest the government’s move to increase the number of medical student seats. However, President Yoon Suk Yeol called on the protesting doctors to “not hold people’s lives and health hostage.” Some 6,415 trainee doctors at 100 […]
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Wed 21 February 2024: Islamabad, Pakistan: Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, continues to remain inaccessible to users in Pakistan after internet watchdog groups started to report outages on Saturday. NetBlocks, an organisation that monitors accessibility issues on the internet, On February 17 confirmed that a “national-scale disruption” has hit X in Pakistan in […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: The UN Secretary-General is to begin consultations on the appointment of a UN envoy to coordinate engagement between Afghanistan’s Taliban government and the international community, he said on Monday. Antonio Guterres told a press conference that Taliban representatives did not accept an invitation to a meeting of international envoys to Afghanistan […]
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The Bengali language versions of Sanskriti Bodhmala textbooks [Snigdhendu Bhattacharya/Al Jazeera] Tue 20 February 2024: The chain of schools run by the BJP’s far-right ideological mentor also served as a laboratory for government changes to syllabuses. Kolkata, India – At the three-storey building of Sarada Shishu Vidya Mandir, a school for grades five to 10 […]
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Tue 20 February 2024: With the advent of Internet today, production and distribution of multimedia is all in digital form. From the slabs of the initial printing press for the elite class to the widespread availability of complete libraries and reading material for anyone with an Internet connection, we have come a long way. Initially […]
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Mon 19 February 2024: In the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a landslide triggered by intense snowfall has left 25 people dead and eight injured, according to a spokesman for the disaster management ministry on Monday, increasing the initial death toll. In a video footage shared with the media, Janan Sayeq stated, “As a result […]
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Sun 18 February 2024: A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner. On Saturday, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its headquarters, said he would hand himself over […]
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