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    Revealed: The Shocking Extent of Exploitative Baby Formula Milk Marketing

    The global formula milk industry, valued at some 55 billion US dollars, is targeting new mothers with personalised social media content that is often...
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    Children

    Fake Polio Vaccine Markings in Pakistan

    Pakistan reported two polio cases from North Waziristan earlier in April, after a gap of 15 months. Now, health authorities say, polio vaccination teams...
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    Green business

    Can AI-Designed Super Enzyme End Plastic Pollution Crisis?

    The latest developments in plastics research offer hope. Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a super enzyme termed as hydrolase that can...
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    Accountability

    Finding a Pathway Out of Genocide for Mynmar’s Rohingya

    On 21 March 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States has determined that the acts committed against the Rohingya minority in...
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    Accountability

    Red Cross Fund Document Takes Note of Civil Unrest in Sri Lanka

    The Red Cross aid document has called this a fund for civil unrest – though the grant document alludes to the unrest being a...
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    Accountability

    Pakistan Government Announces Inquiry Commission to Probe Imran’s Foreign Conspiracy “Drama”

    A series of media addresses by ministers of the Shehbaz Sharif government on Thursday reveal pincer-like moves to attack former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Thursday...
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    Accountability

    General Strike In Sri Lanka Today Demanding President Rajapaksa to Step Down

    A general strike, or hartal is underway across Sri Lanka since this morning. Shops have not opened since the morning and black flags have...
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    Accountability

    14.9 Million Excess Deaths Due To COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 and 2021: WHO Study

    The methods were developed by the Technical Advisory Group for COVID-19 Mortality Assessment and rely on a statistical model derived using information from countries...
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    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

    The Ministry of Rural Development has stated that the rules seek to institutionalise a citizen-centric, accessible and time-bound framework, thereby reinforcing the rights and entitlements of rural households under the scheme. 
    IPR and patent regime

    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
    Civil society

    South Asia Democracy Conference Opens in Colombo Amid Regional Democratic Challenges

    As the three-day programme continues, participants will explore practical questions of democratic renewal.

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    India Sets 15-Day Deadline for Rural Job Scheme Complaints Under New VB-G RAM G Rules

    The Ministry of Rural Development has stated that the rules seek to institutionalise a citizen-centric, accessible and time-bound framework, thereby reinforcing the rights and entitlements of rural households under the scheme. 
    IPR and patent regime

    US Startup Claims Breakthrough in Turning Mercury into Gold Using Nuclear Fusion

    Whether the process ever supplies meaningful quantities of gold will depend on breakthroughs still to come in fusion engineering and materials science.
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