Modi’s India plans its own democracy index, after global rankings downgrade | India Election 2024 News
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has approached a major Indian think tank to develop a homegrown democracy ratings index that could help it counter recent downgrades in rankings issued by international groups that New Delhi fears could affect the country’s credit rating. The Observer Research Foundation (ORF), which…
Rohingya boat capsizes off coast of Indonesia – at least 50 feared dead | Rohingya News
Medan, Indonesia – Dozens of Rohingya refugees are feared to have drowned after a wooden boat with an estimated 150 people on board capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province. The boat is thought to have run into trouble some 19km (12 miles) from the beach of…
Musk’s startup Neuralink streams paralysed man playing online chess | Technology
Video introduces 29-year-old quadriplegic as first patient to use start-up’s brain-chip technology. Elon Musk’s brain-chip start-up, Neuralink, has livestreamed a patient appearing to play online chess using only his mind. In a video posted on the X social media platform on Wednesday, Neuralink introduced Noland Arbaugh, 29, as…
‘No dancing in the streets’: Why has Cambodia banned musical vehicle horns? | Politics News
EXPLAINER Authorities across Cambodia have been ordered to remove musical horns from vehicles and put a stop to roadside dancing. Having ruled with an iron fist for 45 years, Cambodia’s governing party leaders have a lengthy list of practices that have been banned and political opponents jailed or…
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 756 | Russia-Ukraine war News
As the war enters its 756th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, March 21, 2024. Fighting At least five people were killed and eight injured after a Russian missile hit an industrial area in Kharkiv. Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of the northern…
Nearly every country’s population will be shrinking by 2100, study warns | Demographics News
Sub-Saharan Africa to account for one in every two children born in 2100, Lancet study says. Fertility rates in nearly every country will be too low to sustain their populations by the end of this century, a major study has warned. By 2100, populations in 198 of 204…
Q&A: Taiwan whistleblower Rex How on the challenge of generational change | Politics News
Taipei, Taiwan – Eleven years ago, Rex How, writer, publisher, translator, editor, and then-cultural adviser to the Kuomintang (KMT) government of President Ma Ying-jeou, made a decision that would change the direction of his own life, and the future of Taiwan. On June 20, 2013, How posted a…
Advocates gird for Texas migrant law that could upheave US immigration | Migration News
Texas has upped its fight to make a controversial new law — which would allow local authorities to arrest and detain migrants — enforceable. The law has been the subject of an ongoing legal battle, with the United States Supreme Court briefly allowing it to go into effect…
Blinken begins latest Middle East tour, set to meet Arab leaders in Cairo | Israel War on Gaza News
US secretary of state is expected to discuss a truce deal, the exchange of hostages and prisoners, among other topics. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of the Middle East by holding talks in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, hoping to secure a ceasefire in…
US releases ‘strongest ever’ car pollution rules in push for EV transition | Environment News
The new environmental regulations fall short of more ambitious goals previously set by the Biden administration. Washington, DC – The United States has released what it calls the “strongest ever” regulations for car tailpipe pollution, as the country looks to accelerate its sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in…