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DEHRADUN: At least 40 construction workers were trapped on Sunday after the road tunnel they were building collapsed in northern India, with rescuers scrambling to reach them beneath piles of debris. The collapse occurred early on Sunday morning in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand when a group of workers were moving out and replacement workers were going in. “About 200 …

GAZA STRIP: Amid Israeli bombardment, two major hospitals in northern Gaza — Al Shifa and Al Quds — closed to new patients on Sunday, with staff saying that a lack of fuel and medicine meant those already being treated could die. Hospitals in the north of the besieged Palestinian enclave are blockaded by Israeli forces and barely able to care …

ISRAEL’S land, sea and air assault on the Gaza Strip has brought upheaval and destruction to the Palestinian territory on a scale never before seen in the enclave. In the latest estimates from international organisations on the socio-economic impact of the ongoing unrest. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), quoting data from the Palestinian public …

WASHINGTON: US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan affirmed on Sunday that the United States will not accept the Israeli reoccupation of Gaza and will continue opposing the forcible displacement of Palestinians from the territory. Hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted at the Israeli military assuming control of the Palestinian territory after the war, Sullivan stated on CBS News, “No …

The Chinese and Pakistani navies are holding weeklong drills in the Arabian Sea days after the Russian Pacific Fleet and Myanmar practised repelling attacks in their first maritime exercise, while India and the United States pledged security cooperation. At a naval base in Karachi on Saturday, the Chinese and Pakistani navies kicked off the exercise in the waters and airspace …

Rescue workers in northern India said on Monday they had made contact with 40 workers trapped for over 24 hours after the road tunnel they were building collapsed. “All the 40 workers trapped inside the tunnel are safe,” Karamveer Singh Bhandari, a senior commander in the National Disaster Response Force told AFP, from the site in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. “We …

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sacked his interior minister Suella Braverman on Monday after her criticism of the police’s handling of a pro-Palestinian march divided his party and threatened his authority. Under fire from opposition lawmakers and members of the governing Conservative Party to eject Braverman, Sunak seemed to have brought forward a long-planned reshuffle to bring in allies and remove ministers …

More children in South Asia are struggling due to severe water scarcity made worse by the impacts of climate change than anywhere else worldwide, the United Nations said Monday. As of 2022, 739 million children were exposed to high or extremely high water scarcity, with 436m children —mostly in low- and middle-income countries — living in areas of “high or extremely …

By: Raja zahid Khanzada Denton, Texas: Dr. Qaisar Abbas, a prominent scholar and former President of South Asia Democracy Watch, has passed away after a brief illness. His funeral was held in Denton, and he was laid to rest in a Muslim cemetery in the same city. Dr. Qaisar Abbas, born in Pakistan to Syed Bakshish Abbas Rizvi and Fatima …

DHAKA: Bangladeshi garment manufacturers on Saturday shuttered 150 factories “indefinitely”, as police issued blanket charges against 11,000 workers in connection with violent protests demanding a higher minimum wage, officers said. Violent protests demanding better pay erupted last month, with at least three workers killed and more than 70 factories ransacked or damaged since. Just a couple of day ago 15,000 …