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Indian doctors call nationwide strike over rape and murder of Kolkata medic | Protests News

Indian doctors call nationwide strike over rape and murder of Kolkata medic | Protests News

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Hospitals to suspend non-essential services and medical procedures on Saturday as public fury over brutal attack grows. Indian doctors have called for a nationwide shutdown of hospital services as public fury over the rape and murder of a trainee medic in the eastern city of Kolkata last week mounts. The Indian Medical Association (IMA), the country’s largest grouping of medics with 400,000 members, said the 24-hour shutdown would be implemented on Saturday, affecting most hospital departments except for essential services. The shutdown comes after thousands of people took to the streets in several cities to express their outrage at the rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor, whose brutalised body was found on August 9 at Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. On Friday, large protests were held in various cities – including Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal state, Mumbai in the west and Hyderabad in southern India – demanding justice and better security at medical campuses and hospitals. “We want justice,” doctors chanted in Kolkata, waving handwritten signs that read, …

Taliban ‘deliberately deprived’ 1.4 million girls of schooling: UN | Education News

Taliban ‘deliberately deprived’ 1.4 million girls of schooling: UN | Education News

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As Afghanistan’s rulers mark three years in power, the future of an entire generation of girls is ‘in jeopardy’, UN says. Afghanistan’s Taliban government has “deliberately deprived” at least 1.4 million girls of their right to an education during its three years in power, according to the United Nations. About 300,000 more girls are missing out on school since UNESCO last carried out a count in April 2023, it said on Thursday and warned that “the future of an entire generation is now in jeopardy”. Taking into account the number of girls not going to school before the Taliban came to power in August 2021, the UN’s educational and cultural agency said 80 percent of Afghan school-age girls – a total of 2.5 million – are now being denied their right to an education. “UNESCO is alarmed by the harmful consequences of this increasingly massive drop-out rate, which could lead to a rise in child labour and early marriage,” it said in a statement. Afghanistan is the only country in the world to stop girls …

Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women | Asia Pacific

Into the Auntieverse: a surreal fantasy of older women | Asia Pacific

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There are high-rise living quarters built from stacks of Tupperware, spas where you can immerse yourself in a giant bowl of ramen and an altar where you can pay your respects to the Supreme Perm Goddess. Welcome to Auntieverse, a world built by, and ruled by aunties, filled with everything aunties love. The project, by the Singaporean AI artist Niceaunties, is a surreal celebration of the “auntie culture” that exists across south-east and east Asia. As well as being shared widely online, her images have been auctioned at Christie’s and Phillips, and featured at exhibitions across London, Paris and Seoul. The work sets out to challenge perceptions of aunties. “For my generation at least nobody likes to be called an auntie because it means that you are old. You’re ageing,” says Niceaunties, who uses an alias. “I was trying to reframe the perspective and trying to make it fun.” Across the region, auntie doesn’t refer only to someone who has nieces and nephews, but is also used as a broader term for older women. There …

Landslides kill at least 15, displace millions, in Bangladesh and India | Weather News

Landslides kill at least 15, displace millions, in Bangladesh and India | Weather News

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Hundreds of thousands of people are stranded by flash floods and heavy rains with the country’s refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims being the most affected. Heavy monsoon rains have triggered landslides in Bangladesh and India, killing at least 15 people, injuring several others and displacing millions, according to officials. Eight Rohingya Muslims were among those killed by mudslides in the early hours of Wednesday, Mohammad Shamsud Douza, a senior Bangladesh government official in charge of refugees, said. The disaster is the latest in a series triggered by extreme weather in South Asia and around the globe, with heavy rains and heatwaves having killed many people and caused humanitarian crises in recent months. The refugees died in landslides in southern Bangladesh. More than one million Rohingya live in crowded camps in the border district of Cox’s Bazar, the world’s largest refugee settlement, after fleeing a military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar in 2017. Amir Jafar, a police official in command of security in the refugee camps, said hundreds had been moved from areas deemed at risk. The …

Peace eludes India’s Manipur even after defeating BJP over ethnic violence | India Election 2024 News

Peace eludes India’s Manipur even after defeating BJP over ethnic violence | India Election 2024 News

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Jiribam/Chennai, India – Thangman Guite had just finished her dinner on the night of June 6 when she received a phone call. “They are coming, hide,” is all the 26-year-old school teacher heard. Several other residents of Vengnuam, a village in Manipur state’s Jiribam district bordering Assam in India’s northeast, received a similar phone call. Within minutes, Guite switched off the lights of her house and instructed about 15 villagers assembled before her home to run towards the house closest to the nearby forest. She also asked everyone to switch off their phones. As they huddled in one of the rooms in that house, not even daring to approach the window to have a look outside, they heard voices and gunshots as at least two vehicles, allegedly carrying armed men belonging to Arambai Tenggol, a local militia, began to enter the village. The huddled villagers ran to the forest, as quietly as they could. While hiding in darkness and fearing being discovered, Guite said she began to have flashes of all those captured and killed …

USA vs Pakistan: What are the five biggest upsets in T20 World Cup history? | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News

USA vs Pakistan: What are the five biggest upsets in T20 World Cup history? | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News

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After USA record a historic win over Pakistan, Al Jazeera lists the five major upsets in the tournament’s history. USA have pulled off one of the biggest upsets in cricket’s history by beating Pakistan in their T20 World Cup 2024 encounter in Dallas. The win, which came in a super over after scores were tied after the regulation 20 overs, sent shockwaves through the cricket world and led many experts to believe that cricket may finally take off in the land of baseball. Here are the top five upsets – in order of their shock value – in the 17-year history of the T20 World Cup: 1. USA beat Pakistan: 2024 The co-hosts had never played Pakistan in any format of the game before Thursday’s match. Ranked 12 places below the 2009 champions, the USA went into the match riding on the wave of their win over Canada in their opening match of the tournament. Pakistan entered the tournament on the back of a series loss against England. Despite the contrasting forms, not many experts …

Zelensky comes to Asia and scolds China at Shangri-La Dialogue

Zelensky comes to Asia and scolds China at Shangri-La Dialogue

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You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. SINGAPORE — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise visit to this Southeast Asian city-state in a bid to gin up more global support for his embattled country. Zelensky was among dozens of high-level leaders to appear at this past weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue, a major annual security forum that convenes the continent’s top defense officials. His country’s outgunned and outmanned military is reckoning with setbacks on the battlefield, including a fresh Russian offensive on the city of Kharkiv. But while Zelensky’s entreaties to Western governments have often hinged on requests for weaponry and munitions to stave off the Russian invaders, he wanted to enlist his Asian interlocutors into a greater project of diplomacy. Later this month, Switzerland will host a major Ukraine-led peace conference, with more than 100 countries already committed to sending delegations. Russia and China have …

Indian and Pakistani cricketers band together for USA’s T20 World Cup dream | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News

Indian and Pakistani cricketers band together for USA’s T20 World Cup dream | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup News

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Captain: Monak PatelFixtures: Canada (June 2), Pakistan (June 6), India (June 12), Ireland (June 14)Best finish at T20 World Cup: Debut tournament For the best part of the last century, the world of cricket attempted to reignite a love for the game that was officially played for the first time in New York City in the 19th century. Cricket began in the United States earlier than in any other part of the world, according to archived references. Now, the sport is making its way back to the US by handing it the co-hosting rights for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. Lining up under the country’s stars and stripes flag will be 15 men who call the US home, but come from diverse backgrounds. Eleven of the 15 belong to the bustling South Asian community of Indian and Pakistani heritage. The two South Asian nations may be bitter rivals, but the acrimony goes out of the window when the players get together in the Team USA dressing room. “The respect is evident,” USA’s coach …