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    What Pakistan’s Worker Says

    The general working conditions for Islamabad's workers are pathetic and labour groups have been demanding elimination of a ruthless-to-the-core contractual system, but to no...
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    Indians Could Live Another Five Years If The Air Was Cleaner, Say Chicago Researchers

    ….. and residents of the state of Delhi could live another 10 years, according to the researchers who have worked out the Air Quality...
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    Over Half the Fortified Rice Required Already Produced, Says Government

    According to the Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN), no study has been conducted to ascertain the impact...
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    Accountability

    Spelling Out: What Is The Sri Lanka Crisis All About?

    The economic crisis was exacerbated by the loss of livelihoods, particularly by urban and rural daily wage earners, who consequently faced food insecurity due...
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    Accountability

    UN, Red Cross Appeal for Aid for Sri Lanka

    The UN and non-governmental agencies launched a US$ 47.2 million humanitarian needs and priorities plan “to provide life-saving assistance to 1.7 million people worst-hit...
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    Features

    Palestine, Syria, Ukraine: The Life of Marsel, a Child of Wars

    One day, Marsel would like to design schools for refugees, schools where children can learn, play, grow, and blossom like other children. This way, he says, he...
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    US President Biden Refuses to Mention Worsening Dangers of Nuclear War While Media and Congress Enable His Silence

    A leader interested in informing the American people rather than infantilizing them would have something to say about the need to prevent nuclear war...
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    Bangladesh

    What’s wrong with Bangladesh’s rivers?

    The priorities of the government of Bangladesh have gone into fighting disasters, most of them hydrological in nature. Sustaining rivers and their ecosystem has...
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    Pakistan and Maldives Sign 20 MoUs, Target $200 Million Trade in Landmark Visit

    The visit underscores enduring people-to-people and institutional bonds while setting measurable economic targets.
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