Sun 17 November 2024: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for a multi-sectoral action plan among all relevant Bangladesh ministries to respond to lead poisoning and strengthen laboratory capacity in the health and environment sectors to test heavy metals. Globally, Bangladesh ranks fourth in the number of children affected by lead pollution, and […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: Will the next human to walk on the Moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the US and China are preparing to send humans back there this decade. However, the US lunar programme is delayed, in part because the spacesuits […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: The transition team of US President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly compiling a list of former and current senior US military officers directly involved in the “disrespectful” withdrawal from Afghanistan to determine whether they could face court martial. Trump’s team is exploring the possibility of forming a commission to investigate the withdrawal from Afghanistan […]
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Sun 17 November 2024: A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. At least two people were injured, and over […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Afghanistan’s currency, the afghani (AFN), has strengthened considerably against Iran’s toman in the past year, Iranian media reported. According to Iranian-based financial website gheymat360.com, the afghani has strengthened by 40%, recording the strongest growth rate among foreign currencies on the Iranian forex market. Currently one afghani is sold for 992 tomans […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: The babies died from burns and suffocation after a blaze swept through a neonatal intensive care unit in Jhansi. A fire ripped through the neonatal unit of a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborns and injuring 17, the authorities said. Emergency responders rescued 38 newborns from the ward, which housed […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: India’s top court on Wednesday issued guidelines regarding “bulldozer actions,” calling the demolition of private properties “unconstitutional.” “If a citizen’s house is demolished merely because he is an accused or even for that matter a convict, that too without following the due process as prescribed by law, in our considered view, […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: The number of births in Japan in 2024 is likely to fall under 700,000 for the first time after government data showed Tuesday that the figure in the first half fell 6.3 percent from a year earlier to 329,998, Kyodo News reported. Health ministry’s data for the six-month period from January, […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: Electric vehicle (EV) sales broke a record in October with 1.7 million units in sales, driven by strong demand in China, according to UK-based Rho Motion research house on Wednesday. The sales were up 35% year-on-year and 3% month-on-month, Rho Motion data showed. “The global EV market is now picking back […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: South Korea could consider more support for Ukraine in response to North Korea’s deployment of troops in Russia to support Moscow’s ongoing war, the South’s president said on Wednesday. Speaking to Spanish news agency EFE, Yoon Suk-yeol said Pyongyang has also provided weapons to Moscow. “If they both do not stop […]
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