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Bangladesh rejects further pay hike after garment worker protests

BANGLADESH’S prime minister Sheikh Hasina has rejected any further pay hikes for protesting garment workers demanding a nearly tripled wage increase, after violent clashes...

New Delhi’s Green War Room to fight rising air pollution

THE enemy is nearly invisible and there are no soldiers, but the Indian capital’s new “Green War Room” is battling air pollution that is...

Pollution forces city-wide closures of businesses, schools in Pakistan

HEAVY pollution-fuelled smog forced authorities to close schools and markets this week in Pakistan’s most populous province, including the eastern city of Lahore which...

Blinken, Lloyd Austin to visit India for Indo-Pacific talks

US SECRETARY of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin will hold talks with India this week that officials say will focus on...

Bangladesh garment worker shot dead in new wage protests

A WOMAN was shot dead on Wednesday (8) when police in Bangladesh opened fire on protesting garment workers who had returned to the streets...

5 civilians killed Pakistan blast

A BOMB blast targeting a Pakistan police van in northwestern Pakistan on Friday (3) killed five civilians and wounded 21 people, officials said. The attack...

Air pollution in New Delhi turns ‘severe’

PEOPLE in New Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic haze on Friday (3), and some schools were ordered to be shut...

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