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75 community-based schools to educate 2,250 out-of-school girls under the dam project The Water and Power Development Authority on Tuesday allocated over Rs94.2 million for 75 community-based girls’ schools in Diamer, in a fresh push to promote education, particularly for girls, under the Diamer-Bhasha Dam project. The funding, approved under the Community-Based Accelerated Learning Schools … Read more
Indonesia’s president, under fire at home for signing up to US counterpart Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace,” has insisted his country would not pay the $1 billion joining fee for permanent membership. Jakarta had only committed peacekeeping troops for the initiative, Prabowo Subianto said in a statement published on the presidential YouTube channel Sunday. … Read more
[ BEIJING: China took steps to cushion the impact of rising fuel prices on Monday, increasing the regulated ceiling prices for retail gasoline and diesel but limiting the hike to about half what would normally be applied under the government’s pricing mechanism. The adjustments brought on by rising oil prices linked to the US-Israel war … Read more
The United Nations food agency is revamping its programme for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from April to ensure a minimum threshold of food security for each household, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. Funding pressure on humanitarian groups is growing in the ninth year of a crisis over more than 1 million Rohingya, most of whom … Read more
[ Airlines, banks and small caps rally as oil slides and volatility eases; Fed rate-cut bets trimmed BENGALURU: The main US indexes climbed in broad gains on Monday after President Donald Trump said he had ordered the military to postpone strikes against Iranian power plants following “productive conversations” with Tehran. Iran’s foreign ministry refuted the … Read more
The city’s museums and galleries entice with work by boldfaced names like Lee Bul and Mary Weatherford, plus shows on textiles and collective memory.
The United States will continue its strikes on Iran, with the pause applying only to attacks on Tehran’s energy sites, Semafor reported on Monday, citing a US official, during what President Donald Trump has described as “productive” talks with unidentified Iranian officials. Earlier on Monday, Trump had postponed for five days a plan to hit … Read more
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[President Trump had set off a drastic market reaction on Monday by backing away from a threat to strike Iranian energy infrastructure.
A reassessment of damaged 3,500-year-old statuary adds to evidence that Queen Hatshepsut wasn’t the villain that scholars long took her to be.