‘I feel helpless’: India-Bangladesh tensions deny patients medical access

‘I feel helpless’: India-Bangladesh tensions deny patients medical access

Dhaka, Bangladesh – Khadiza Khatun’s life took a devastating turn in September when doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital informed her that her 37-year-old husband, Mohammad Nuri Alam, urgently needed a liver transplant – a procedure unavailable in Bangladesh. After careful research, they decided to go to India’s Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in Hyderabad, a…

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Afghan Taliban hit ‘several points’ in Pakistan in retaliation for attacks

Afghan Taliban hit ‘several points’ in Pakistan in retaliation for attacks

The attacks come days after the Taliban pledged retaliation for Pakistani air strikes inside Afghanistan. Afghan Taliban forces targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense has said, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside the country. The statement from the defence ministry on Saturday did not directly specify that Pakistan…

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India’s former PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92

India’s former PM Manmohan Singh dies aged 92

BREAKINGBREAKING, Singh served as prime minister from 2004 to 2014 and was the architect of India’s economic liberalisation in the 1990s. Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who governed the South Asian country for two terms and liberalised its economy in an earlier stint as finance minister, has died. He was 92. Singh, an economist-turned-politician…

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