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The Supreme Court has now redrawn the battle lines in the country’s long and troubled relationship with its street dogs.
Public health experts say the ongoing Birgunj outbreak is the largest since the Jajarkot incident in 2009. Sixteen years ago, the farwestern district of Jajarkot saw a major cholera outbreak that ...
The Uttarakhand government has announced relief of 500,000 Indian rupees each for the families of missing Indian citizens. Nepali workers, however, have neither received pending wages nor compensation ...
The typhoon is the fifth to hit the East Sea this year, and made landfall in the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tĩnh at 6 pm on Monday. 18,452 households comprising 44,313 people were evacuated ...
For Pakistan, the stakes are high. Failing to support breastfeeding not only compromises child health and development but also limits women’s economic participation and perpetuates gender inequality.
The preventable loss of human lives has again renewed the focus on overtourism in India’s hill regions and the recurring toll it exacts, especially now that adverse weather events linked to climate ...
SEOUL – South Korea’s rapid transformation into a super-aged society has brought a stark consequence: elderly poverty. About 38 percent of Koreans over 65 live below the poverty line, the highest rate ...
TOKYO – The approval rating for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Cabinet jumped 17 points to 39% in a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey. That was up from 22% in the July survey, which was conducted ...
As Pakistan’s campuses swell with a new generation, an invisible gap grows wider — the missing bridge of dialogue between students and those who govern their futures.