Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving programmes across the Middle East at risk. “As I address you today, I do not have the funds to keep our schools, health centres and other services running as of September,”…
Some 1.6 million people in Rakhine, Chin, Magway, Sagaing, and Kachin states are in dire need of assistance after Mocha’s 250 kilometre per hour wind gusts destroyed homes, farmland and livestock. Speaking from hard-hit Rakhine State capital Sittwe, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Myanmar, Titon Mitra, said that time was of the essence as food reserves…
In a statement on Friday, the experts said that emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence-based biometric surveillance systems, are increasingly being used “in sensitive contexts”, without individuals’ knowledge or consent ‘Urgent red lines’ must be drawn “Urgent and strict regulatory red lines are needed for technologies that claim to perform emotion or gender recognition,” said the experts,…
Since the start of the year, abortion has been banned in 14 states across the country, and the consequences of the Supreme Court decision has reverberated throughout the entire legal and policy system, the Human Rights Council-appointed experts said. “The regressive position taken by the US Supreme Court…by essentially dismantling 50 years of precedent protecting…
Ethnic riots break out in Manipur; Photo: File New Delhi: Ethnic conflicts intensified in the Indian state of Manipur and a large number of people demanded secession from India. India’s Prime Minister Modi has proved that human lives are of no value to him. Despite the deployment of 10,000 soldiers in the state of Manipur,…
File photo 4 people were injured in a knife attack in the Swedish city of Eskaltuna, who were transferred to the hospital. According to Swedish TV 4, school children are also among the injured, but they were not in school at the time of the incident. A police spokesman said that there was an altercation…
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) president and former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi was arrested again. Parvez Elahi was arrested from the Anti-Corruption Headquarters in Gujranwala in a case registered. Earlier, Chaudhry Pervez Elahi was acquitted by the court in Lahore’s Kachhari district. The court said that Parvez Elahi should be released if he is not…
File photo Due to tax evasion in the cigarette sector, the national treasury started losing 240 billion annually. According to the Apsus survey report, after the increase in excise duty in February, the share of illegal cigarettes has reached 48 percent. According to the survey report, tax is being evaded on more than 2 billion…
File photo In an area of Kottam district of the Indian state of Kerala, mysterious and loud noises from under the ground have worried the local citizens. According to Indian media, the people of the village said that today (Friday) 2 mysterious sounds were heard while in the same area and surrounding areas, underground sounds…
Former Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar – file photo Former Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar announced his retirement from politics. In the statement issued in this regard, Usman Buzdar says that Zamir is satisfied. He says that he served the people of Punjab with good intentions, the events that happened on May 9…
