Schools in Indian-administered Kashmir reopened Wednesday after 31 months. Health professionals say mental health issues among children spiked during this period. Schools were first closed down due to the security situation arising from India’s revocation of Kashmir’s limited autonomy in August 2019. They remained closed later due to the restr...
Deborah Lyons, head of the U.N. mission in Afghanistan, said six months of indecision is “eroding vital social and economic coping systems,” pushing the Afghan population into greater uncertainty. As the Secretary-General’s Special Representative, Lyons thanked donors for humanitarian contributions since last August. That’s when the last U.S. ...
NEW DELHI – On World Obesity Day, experts revealed that India has the world’s second-largest obese population among children under five years of age. Dr. J S Thakur, professor at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, said India is facing issues of both malnutrition as well as overnutrition. ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Twenty-eight sailors of a Bangladeshi vessel which was stranded at a Ukrainian port after being hit by a missile have been evacuated. “All crew members of the stranded Bangladeshi cargo ship in the Ukrainian seaport have been taken to a safe place. Sailors are now safe.” State Minister for Foreign Affairs [&helli...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A suicide bomber blew himself up during weekly Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 56 people and injuring over 190 others, authorities said. The suicide bomber was stopped by police at a mosque in Peshawar’s bustling Qissakhwani bazaar, but he forced his way into the mosque’s ...
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan claimed on Thursday that its security forces had foiled an Indian submarine’s attempt to enter its waters on March 1. A spokesperson for the Pakistan Army accused India of deploying a submarine with ‘ulterior motives’ against Pakistan. According to Major General Babar Iftikhar, given the prevailing security env...
Asphalt roads in Afghanistan destroyed by explosions due to decades of conflict are being repaired by children. Afghan boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 15 fill pits created by mines and bombings with soil and gravel they collect from the roadside. These children work from sunup to sundown in difficult conditions to […]
Malaysia denied Tuesday it sanctioned a Russian ship’s port call. The sanctioned ship, Linda, scheduled to arrive at the Kuala Linggi port March 5, was denied a port call as the port’s operator did not want to violate any sanctions, the Malaysian Transportation Ministry said in a statement. “We will continue to monitor the related […]...
Hundreds of reports chronicling decades of attacks in Indian-held Kashmir have disappeared from local newspapers’ archives. It includes one of the most comprehensive NGO reports on decades of violence and killings in the disputed region, which was published by a respected rights organization.. The disappearance also includes the Greater Kashm...
A remote hospital in Bangladesh’s southwestern Satkhira district has earned international recognition as the world’s best building and as a model infrastructure resilient to the impacts of climate change. Located near the world’s largest mangrove forest (‘Sundarbans’) and the Bay of Bengal, the rainwater-harvesting health facility ...
