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New Delhi: World Health Organization has said it will reconvene its expert monkeypox committee on 21st of this month to decide whether the outbreak constitutes a global health emergency. A second meeting of the WHO’s emergency committee on…
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London: Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak has won the second round of voting to succeed Boris Johnson as the United Kingdom's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Indian-origin former Chancellor of the Exchequer…
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Colombo: Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today emailed his resignation letter to the Parliament Speaker. Sri Lankan Speaker's office said, the Speaker has received President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation letter. The embattled…
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Dubai: Leaders of India, Israel, United Arab Emirates and the United States, I2U2 have said that the inaugural I2U2 leaders meeting focussed on the food security crisis and clean energy. In a Joint Statement, the leaders today said,…
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WASHINGTON  – The World Bank approved today the second phase of the Improving Nutrition Outcomes Program using the Multiphase Programmatic Approach amounting to $85 million consisting of a $42,5 million credit and a $42,5 million grant to…
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London: Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak won the first round of voting to replace Boris Johnson as the country’s prime minister and leader of the Conservative Party. Sunak secured 88 votes of Tory MPs, ahead of junior trade…
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Illnesses like the common cold and the flu have become endemic in human populations; everyone gets them every now and then, but for most people, they aren’t especially harmful. COVID-19 will eventually transition to endemic status at…
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MANILA — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) retained its spot in the top “very good” category in the 2022 Aid Transparency Index (ATI), an independent measurement of aid transparency launched today. The ATI is spearheaded by British…
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Dhaka: Population of Bangladesh will peak at 20.70 crore by 2061, eventually declining to 17.64 crore by the end of the century, says the World Population Prospects 2022 report by the UN. The rate of population change in the country has…
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Moscow: Russia and Ukraine met United Nations and Turkish officials today in a bid to break a months-long impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions face hunger. The high-stakes meeting in Istanbul came with…
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