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High-flying tech hits potholes in India’s Silicon Valley
AFP, Published on 27/11/2025
» BENGALURU, India - In India’s tech capital, the morning “rush hour” lasts so long it devours half the workday, throttling productivity in a city often viewed as the poster child of a booming economy.
Rising heat needs urgent response
Oped, Published on 24/11/2025
» 2024 was the hottest on record globally. In Asia and the Pacific, Bangladesh was the worst-hit country, with about 33 million people affected by lower crop yields that destabilised food systems, along with extensive school closures and many cases of heatstroke and related diseases. Children, the elderly and low-wage earners in poor and densely populated urban areas suffered the most, as they generally had less access to cooling systems or to water supplies and adequate healthcare. India, too, was badly affected, with around 700 heat-related deaths mostly in informal settlements.
Ratchanok takes on An
Sports, Published on 22/11/2025
» Ratchanok Intanon will take on world No.1 An Se-Young in the women's singles semi-finals of the US$475,000 (approx 15.4 million baht) BWF Australian Open in Sydney.
Iran: Drought, incompetence, revolution?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 22/11/2025
» Twenty years of strict sanctions on Iran by both the United States and the United Nations did not bring down the regime of the ayatollahs. Half a dozen major waves of non-violent protest involving several thousand deaths have not brought it down either. Even last June's massive bombing campaign by Israel and the US did not bring it to heel.
COP30 dragged into clash over gender language
AFP, Published on 20/11/2025
» BELéM (BRAZIL) - Conservative delegations from the Vatican to Iran are pushing to narrow the definition of "gender" at UN climate talks in Brazil -- a move aimed at excluding trans and non-binary people and threatening to complicate the summit's outcome.
Education for girls hit hard by India's drying wells
AFP, Published on 18/11/2025
» NANDURBAR — Each morning, 17-year-old Ramati Mangla sets off barefoot with a steel pot in hand, walking several kilometres to fetch water from a distant spring in India's Maharashtra state.
Global wine output subdued by climate shocks
Reuters, Published on 12/11/2025
» PARIS — Global wine production rose slightly in 2025, but output remained below average for a third consecutive year as vineyards faced extreme and volatile weather, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) reported.
How to give expert advice in transformational times
Oped, Published on 11/11/2025
» I am a policy analyst. My job is to provide expert information to decision makers and the public to help improve public policy. This job, always hard, has become harder.
West Bank's ancient olive tree a 'symbol of Palestinian endurance'
AFP, Published on 07/11/2025
» AL WALAJAH (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - As guardian of the occupied West Bank's oldest olive tree, Salah Abu Ali prunes its branches and gathers its fruit even as violence plagues the Palestinian territory during this year's harvest.
Afghanistan quake kills 20, injures over 300: health ministry
AFP, Published on 03/11/2025
» MAZAR-I-SHARIF (AFGHANISTAN) - A strong earthquake killed at least 20 people in northern Afghanistan, authorities said Monday, just months after another deadly tremor that left the country reeling.