Pricing dispute causes shortage of critical medicine in Pakistan

KARACHI: A simmering price dispute between Pakistan’s pharmaceutical industry and the Health Ministry has resulted in an acute shortage of critical medicines, forcing patients to rely on smuggled and potentially counterfeit drugs at increased costs. Grappling with rising production costs owing to skyrocketing inflation and massive devaluation of the local currency in recent years, the […]

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From policy to progress: India’s steady march towards Sustainable Development Goals

New Delhi: The world is witnessing an unprecedented rate of urbanization and development, however, this has also exerted an equally significant impact on our environment and the quality of life. As a result of the urgent environmental challenges facing the world, the United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), calling for actions from all […]

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Austrian FM: Russia’s war in Ukraine is not ‘black and white’

Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg discusses Austria’s military non-alignment policy. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted countries such as Finland and Sweden to apply for NATO membership. Austria, however, has shown no interest in joining the alliance. It has been neutral since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1955. In fact, Austria’s law of neutrality […]

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UN Warning About Alarming Scale of Violence by Myanmar’s Junta Forces

WASHINGTON — Despite the Myanmar army’s denials, survivors and witnesses recently told VOA that during raids on their villages, soldiers used “systematic tactical force” to suppress resistance from villagers, including burning down houses, torture, rape, and mass killings. According to witnesses, Tar Taing village in Sagaing township was raided by junta troops in early March, […]

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Kashmir: Fed govt bans GB CM, Governor from carrying security to other provinces

The PML-N led federal government on Saturday banned the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) governor and chief minister from carrying the official security personnel along with them during visits to other provinces. The interior ministry has circulated the copies of notification to all the chief secretaries and Inspector Generals of police in this regard. The concerned province would […]

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