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Across South Asia, this sweet drink is synonymous with summertime refreshment

Invented in 1907 to beat the effects of extreme heat, Rooh Afza — a ruby-red, plant-based concentrate — is diluted with water, milk or ice and is a summertime favorite in India, Pakistan and beyond.

WEKU

Microsoft Hires AWS’s Puneet Chandok To Lead India Operations

Microsoft Corp has announced the appointment of Puneet Chandok as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft India and South Asia

Zenger

Scotland's first South Asian paramedic racially abused by patient who called him 'terrorist'

Araf Saddiq, 57, who lives in Chapelhall, Lanarkshire, was born in the UK to Pakistani parents and is extremely proud to be the first person from South Asia, and the first Muslim, to serve with the Scottish Ambulance Service.

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Nepal becomes first South Asian country to allow same-sex marriage

Nepal’s top court has ordered the legal registration of same-sex marriages, a first step towards marriage equality for LGBTQ+ people in conservative South Asia.

Radio France Internationale

What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change?

Extreme weather events in one of the world’s most populous regions bring food insecurity, displacement and disease.

Al Jazeera

Winner takes all: India face Kuwait test in SAFF Championship final

BENGALURU: Supremacy in South Asia is nothing new for the Indian football team, which has already won the regional title eight times. Precisely why the All India Football Federation (AIFF) was open to the idea of guest teams in the SAFF Championship to raise the competition level.

The Times of India

Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji review – charming, genre-defying study

The academic’s discursive, wonderfully enjoyable account of South Asia’s journey from a British colony to three independent nations is a classic

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Highest prevalence of opioid use disorders in eastern parts of India: UNODC report

The highest prevalence of people with opioid use disorders in India is observed in the eastern parts of the country, while the largest numbers of people with opioid use disorders are found in north-western India as well as in some of the central-western States, the latest World Drug Report 2023…

The Hindu

Why malaria still persists in much of Africa

We think of malaria as a problem faced only by humid, hot countries. But just over a century ago, the disease thrived as far north as Siberia and the Arctic Circle, and was endemic in 36 states of the US. We don't have specific data that far back for Thailand,…

Bangkok Post

South Asia’s climate migration is a ticking bomb

Because of disasters ranging from floods to desertification, South Asia would have an estimated 50 million climate refugees by 2050

The Hindu

ANI Taps TVU Networks for Video Ingest and Clipping

The South Asian multimedia news agency is using TVU MediaMind and TVU Search to power a new approach to ingest and clipping

TV Tech

Masala Festival to return with South Asian arts, performances and events across Tyneside

Seven-day celebration of South Asian arts and culture in July will bring party atmosphere to Newcastle and Gateshead with music, Bollywood dance, crafts, films, food and a Mini Mela

Chronicle Live

Shanghai records hottest day in May in 100 years

Temperature hits 36.7C in China’s largest city as records fall across Southeast Asia and South Asia.

Al Jazeera

First cases of highly contagious drug-resistant fungal disease found in two women

The drug-resistant ringworm is currently tearing through India and other parts of South Asia

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Kissing is 1,000 years older than we thought, new research shows

Previous research suggested the earliest kiss was in South Asia 3,500 years ago, accelerating the spread of the herpes simplex virus

The Independent UK

Dubai-based professional baseball league announces first franchise, Mumbai Cobras

Baseball United, which swung for the sporting history fences by establishing the first professional baseball league in the Middle East and South Asia, has announced its first franchise, the Mumbai Cobras

The Hindu

$315 million World Bank funding in the pipeline for State: World Bank VP

Additional World Bank funding for Kerala totalling $315 million, subject to negotiations and approvals, is in the pipeline, Martin Raiser, Vice President for the South Asia Region, World Bank, said here on Friday.

The Guardian - UK

‘Endless record heat’ in Asia as highest April temperatures recorded

Record figures for month recorded in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China and South Asia

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Bangkok Post

Malaysia probes abuse of migrant workers

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has launched an investigation to uncover how hundreds of migrant workers arrived from South Asia without jobs, despite having paid steep fees to get employment, officials and rights groups said.

Reuters

Malaysia probes cases of migrant workers left jobless, without passports

Malaysia has launched an investigation to uncover how hundreds of migrant workers arrived from South Asia without jobs, despite having paid steep fees to get employment, officials and rights groups said.

Reuters

South Asia home to world's highest number of child brides - UN

South Asia is home to highest number of child brides in the world as increased financial pressures and school closures due to COVID-19 forced families to marry off their young daughters, according to new estimates released by UNICEF on Wednesday.

Newslaundry

Financial Times journalist says ‘kicked out’ of India-Russia event over ‘security reasons’

The South Asia bureau chief of Financial Times has claimed that he was “kicked out” of an India-Russia event in Delhi today for “security reasons”.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt, Britain Discuss Regional, Int’l Developments

Egypt and Britain discussed the latest regional and international development and repercussions of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis. According to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received the British Minister of State Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs of South Asia, Middle East, and North Africa, Lord Tariq…

Newslaundry

NL Interview: Kshama Sawant on why she pushed for a caste ban in Seattle

As more and more Indians travel abroad, casteism has been increasingly subjected to public condemnation in other countries. Seattle recently became the first city in the US and outside South Asia to ban caste discrimination. And at the helm of this historic legislation was city council member Kshama Sawant.

The Times of India

CANTO traveling poetry festival brought together acclaimed poets from across the world

A unique traveling poetry festival, CANTO, leading up to World Poetry Day was held in the country from March 15 to 19, 2023. The four-day multilingual, multicultural poetry festival took place in a hybrid manner at various venues in New Delhi and Kolkata. It brought together globally acclaimed poets, University…

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