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The system forgot to be reliable
New Age Bangladesh
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An injured student is taken to National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, where dozens of injured students are being treated. | Focus Bangla The crash of the F-7 aircraft over Dia Bari is not merely a tragic accident; it is the tragic symptom...
Indonesia uncovers maritime drug route in Southeast Asia
Inquirer
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July 22, 2025
JAKARTA – Indonesia is on track to record the largest seizure of drugs by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in six years, said the agency’s chief, with confiscation of methamphetamine reaching 3.41 tonnes – with a street value of $590 million –...
13 Examples of Multilateral Organisations
Human Rights Careers
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July 22, 2025
A multilateral organisation is an entity created by three or more countries to address issues of mutual interest that require collective action. These organisations typically operate on a global or regional scale and focus on areas such as...
Maldives seeks India aid to curb drug-terror link
The Economic Times
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July 22, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day Maldives visit starting Friday will be marked by the strengthening of bilateral security partnership to counter illicit drug trade in the Indian Ocean Region that is fuelling Pakistan-sponsored cross-border...
Indian passport sees highest climb on global index. 59 countries now visa-free
India Today
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July 22, 2025
The strength of the Indian passport dropped five spots last year. But this year, it has made the largest jump by climbing eight places - from 85th to 77th - according to the Henley Passport Index 2025 that was unveiled on July 22. The report ranks...
Heidi Kühn’s Azerbaijan Demining Efforts Advocacy
News Blaze
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July 22, 2025
Restoring lands and saving people’s lives – demining minefield after minefield. The greatest challenge Azerbaijan has been facing in order to restore normal life in the Nagorno-Karabakh liberated area is demining.* * Demining, the process of...
Bangladesh sees small glimmers of economic hope a year after longtime autocrat ousted in people’s revolt
The Conversation
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July 22, 2025
By the time a student-led protest movement erupted into a full-scale revolution in Bangladesh in July 2024, the country’s economy was already in free fall. Years of rampant corruption, mismanagement and dwindling opportunities for young people –...
How Martyrs' Day marked Mamata's rallying cry to defeat BJP in Bengal and beyond
India Today
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July 22, 2025
Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, in a powerful address at her party’s flagship Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21 in Kolkata, launched a combative attack on the BJP-led central government, accusing it of orchestrating a “voter deletion”...
China-Linked Scam Centers Targeting More US Victims: Report
Newsweek
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July 22, 2025
Asian scam centers are cheating Americans out of billions of dollars a year while enjoying at least the implicit backing of elements in the Chinese government and the threat posed by the "pig-butchering" fraud gangs is growing, a U.S....
Cambodian Information Minister Lauds Media Excellence at Asia Media Summit Gala
AKP
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AKP Siem Reap, July 22, 2025 — H.E. Neth Pheaktra, Cambodia’s Minister of Information, delivered a special address this evening at the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony of the 20th Asia Media Summit (AMS). The Minister congratulated the Asia-Pacific...
Conflicts and humanitarian crises create new HIV vulnerabilities
Aidsmap
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Garnering a standing ovation at IAS 2025, Sameer Sah, from Medical Aid for Palestinians, provided a devastating first-hand account of what’s been happening for nearly two years in Gazan healthcare settings. While the territory has typically had...
Transitional Problems During the Revolution
MoeMaKa
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July 17, 2025
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – July 16 Viewpoint (Moemaka, July 17, 2025) Transitional Problems During the Revolution After the military coup in February 2021, a mass uprising emerged under the banner of resisting the coup and establishing a federal...
UN Statements Undercut New Israeli Report on 10/7 Sexual Violence
Drop Site
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July 22, 2025
My book “The Squad” is out in paperback tomorrow. If you want to get it and avoid Amazon, you can do that here. In hindsight, I regret not fighting for the original title I wanted, “They’ve Got Money,” because it is a sequel to my previous one,...
Quads, triads and India’s South Asia paranoia
Scroll.in
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July 22, 2025
Let us not be coy. The limited war between Pakistan and India this past May, not long after the end-April terror attack near Pahalgam in Kashmir, has unlimited consequences for South Asia. As we know, avionics, strike and defensive systems got a...
171 inmates sit 2018-19 matriculation exam
Eleven Myanmar
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A total of 171 inmates across the country sat the 2018-19 matriculation exam and it is 67 more in compared with last academic year, according to Correctional Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs. They are from 66 male inmates and three...
How Bangladeshi Stability Depends Upon Forthcoming Election
South Asia Journal
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July 21, 2025
General elections are expected to take place in Bangladesh sometime around April 2026. The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has established constitutional and election reform commissions for this purpose. However, Bangladesh’s main...
Manipur Congress asks five constitutional questions to Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla
The Economic Times
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July 22, 2025
A delegation of the Manipur Congress party posed five constitutional questions to the Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on the status of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly. Manipur PCC President Keisham Meghachandra Singh submitted a nine-page...
Cornered by design, say Seemanchal Muslims as Bihar SIR unsettles lives | Ground report
The Federal
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July 20, 2025
Ahead of the Bihar assembly elections scheduled for October-November 2025, reports have surfaced that a large number of 'infiltrators' from Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar form part of the voter list. The reports, widely contended to be untrue, have...
Former Manipur CM Biren Calls For Intensified Crackdown On Drug Networks
Northeast Today
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July 22, 2025
Former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday urged authorities to step up countermeasures to dismantle drug networks and work towards a drug-free India. Commending the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) for a major drug bust in...
The 9 Most Important Oil & Gas Pipelines in the World
Oil Price
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July 21, 2025
Pipelines are the unsung backbone of the global energy system–quietly moving billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of gas with unmatched efficiency, reliability, and scale. In the U.S., they handle nearly 70% of all petroleum...