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The country of Ukraine has no functioning waste management system, with 33,000 illegal dumpsites, 6,100 landfills and just one waste incinerator in the nation.

This week, as India’s parliament formally repealed the farm laws, national farmers’ leaders gathered in Mumbai and declared their protests were not finished.

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

Almost a year into the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines, health officials are still struggling to close a yawning gap. While 64% of people in wealthy countries had received at least one dose by Nov. 23, just 7.5% had in low-income nations, according to the United Nations. Concerns that the rich would also monopolize new Covid treatments sparked an effort to prevent that from happening. For vaccines, there was no sign of a solution any time soon, despite proposals to suspend intellectual-property pro

Gross domestic product grew 8.4% between July and September — India's fiscal second quarter — from a year ago, government data showed.

Slalom champion Arif Khan is India's first athlete to qualify for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

Two men went viral in India for remaining calm and enjoying their food at a Bhiwandi wedding while a fire broke out behind them. The dilemma: The Indian Fire Service shared a now-viral Facebook video of two wedding guests caught between worrying about the approaching fire or continuing to enjoy the wedding feast. In the video, the men can be seen glancing back at the raging fire while choosing to remain in their seats to pick at their food and eat.

Between a token called Omicron rallying this past weekend and Kimbal Musk announcing his interest in creating a DAO, here are eight things to know in crypto.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role, sources tell CNBC.

Arbaz Mullah was a Muslim man in love with a Hindu woman.

Arbaz Mullah’s love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta Kumbhar. The romance so angered relatives of Kumbhar, a Hindu, that they allegedly hired members of a hard-line Hindu nationalist group to kill 24-year-old Mullah, who was Muslim. While interfaith unions between Hindus and Muslims are rare in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, and other Hindu nationalists have forcefully decried what they call “love jihad.”

Experts say the government needs to first fulfil its promises to boost the public health system.

India is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for cryptocurrency trading, even though the ability to trade Bitcoin and its peers freely and anonymously undermines the country’s limits on the convertibility of its currency, the rupee. The central bank is clear that it wants all private cryptocurrencies banned while it creates an official digital currency. The government, however, is open to exceptions to promote blockchain technology. Amid these competing goals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India is one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for cryptocurrency trading, even though the ability to trade Bitcoin and its peers freely and anonymously undermines the country’s limits on the convertibility of its currency, the rupee. The central bank is clear that it wants all private cryptocurrencies banned while it creates an official digital currency. The government, however, is open to exceptions to promote blockchain technology. Amid these competing goals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi

While jabs and boosters are offered in the U.S. and much of Europe, vaccination rates remain low in southern Africa, where the Omicron variant was first detected.

Axar Patel took his fifth five-wicket haul to help India bowl out New Zealand for 296 runs on day three of the first test on Saturday. New Zealand lost its last eight wickets for 82 runs in the first innings as Patel’s fiery 5-62 put India in command.

An Indian government survey says so - but the numbers don't add up.

The Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine maker, has resumed exports of coronavirus vaccines to the U.N.-backed COVAX distribution program after halting most overseas sales in March.

The U.S. will release 50 millions barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to combat climbing gas prices.

In a Q&A, Scott Kirby, the carrier’s CEO, discusses how requiring Covid vaccinations for employees was clearly “the right thing to do.”

Several nations in the Asia-Pacific region, richer and poorer, had slow starts to their immunization campaigns but have since zoomed past the United States and many nations in Europe.

After slow starts, vaccination campaigns in several countries in the Asia-Pacific region now boast inoculation rates that rank among the world’s best.

India’s prime minister has wasted a chance to reform agriculture and create conditions for self-fueling growth of cities.

The new interest shown by brewing giants ought to signal that the world’s next great urban labor force will be bigger than those of China and India.

As coronavirus infections flood Ukraine, doctors in one city have been working around the clock to care for the many people suffering from COVID-19. (Nov. 19)

More than a year of angry and sometimes deadly street protests by India’s farmers have forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi into the biggest retreat of his seven years in office: the repeal of his attempt to fundamentally overhaul the way farm goods are produced and sold in the nation of almost 1.4 billion people. New legislation would have opened up a decades-old system of state-run wholesale markets to more private sales. But farmers and opposition politicians argued it would leave those workin

More than a year of angry and sometimes deadly street protests by India’s farmers have forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi into the biggest retreat of his seven years in office: the repeal of his attempt to fundamentally overhaul the way farm goods are produced and sold in the nation of almost 1.4 billion people. New legislation would have opened up a decades-old system of state-run wholesale markets to more private sales. But farmers and opposition politicians argued it would leave those workin

The prime minister’s decision to repeal three contentious farm laws may be his biggest political setback yet — and the most sensible outcome.

Police in Mumbai were called in to rescue the five-day-old after residents were alerted by cats.

Russia's latest anti-satellite test is unlike anything we've seen from the nation before.

Azeem Rafiq says he faced years of racist abuse while playing for Yorkshire Cricket Club.

The delta variant, first detected in India a little less than a year ago, now represents 99% of sequenced Covid-19 cases globally.

The United States will host a cricket World Cup for the first time after global events from 2024-31 were allocated on Tuesday. Pakistan will also stage a first major event in 29 years when it defends the Champions Trophy in 2025. India, cricket's financial driver, received the most global events; the 2026 T20 World Cup with Sri Lanka, the 2029 Champions Trophy, and the 2031 ODI World Cup with Bangladesh.

The early results from COP26, a United Nations climate summit that concluded this weekend in Glasgow, aren't all positive.

India’s defense of coal may have raised some eyebrows, but its latest effort to boost public awareness about EVs is a step in the right direction.

Airbus clinched a major deal on Monday valued into the billions of dollars to sell 111 new aircraft to the Air Lease Corporation, its second blockbuster order at the Dubai Air Show. At Airbus’ pre-pandemic list prices, the order would exceed $15 billion, although major deals typically see manufacturers offer significant discounts to buyers. The sale of the European plane maker's new twin-engine A350 freighter is seen as a direct challenge to Boeing's long-haul 787 Dreamliner, which has suffered repeated production troubles.

India has began allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular flights, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions as infections fall and vaccinations rise.

India began on Monday allowing fully vaccinated foreign tourists to enter the country on regular commercial flights, in the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions as infections fall and vaccinations rise. Tourists entering India must be fully vaccinated, follow all COVID-19 protocols and test negative for the virus within 72 hours of their flight, according to the health ministry. This is the first time India has allowed foreign tourists on commercial flights to enter the country since March 2020, when it imposed one of the toughest lockdowns in the world in an attempt to contain the pandemic.

Meanwhile, support for regulating emissions fell.

Indian brothers Vihaan and Nav Agarwal have won a prestigious children’s prize for a project they launched that aims to reduce waste and pollution and plant trees in New Delhi

In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history.

No country will see energy needs grow faster in coming decades than India, and even under the most optimistic projections part of that demand will have to be met with dirty coal power — a key source of heat-trapping carbon emissions

A new study hints at when and how Earth's first continents appeared.

A lawsuit in which workers accuse a Hindu organization of human trafficking by luring them from India to build a temple in New Jersey for as little as $1.20 a day has widened to four other states. In the initial lawsuit filed in May, workers at a Hindu temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, claimed leaders of the Hindu organization known as Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, or BAPS, coerced them into signing employment agreements and forced them to work more than 12 hours per day with few days off, under the watch of security guards. The amended lawsuit filed last month added several more workers to the lawsuit.

India on Wednesday hosted senior security officials from Russia, Iran and five Central Asian countries to discuss the ramifications of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in talks that were boycotted by rival Pakistan and its ally China. India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval invited security chiefs from Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan for the meeting. Pakistan and China declined to attend, with Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf last week calling India a “spoiler” and not a “peacemaker” in Afghanistan.

Officials say a fire in a newborn care unit in a hospital in central India has killed four infants.

Unless governments are prepared to depoliticize power and overhaul debt-ridden state electricity companies, the nation will struggle to meet its renewables target.

A wave of dengue fever cases shows how little has been learned from the Covid pandemic.

Paytm validates a model of digitization in which losing on individual-transaction take rates is more than made up by gains from handling billions of them.

Around 47.8% of energy consumed in Asia-Pacific last year came from coal, according to the latest edition of BP's Statistical Review of World Energy.

A wave of dengue fever cases shows how little has been learned from the Covid pandemic.

We are done with Wanda but not done with the hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center is already monitoring another system for possible tropical development.

Paytm validates a model of digitization in which losing on individual-transaction take rates is more than made up by gains from handling billions of them.

Indians across the country are celebrating the Diwali festival amid concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and rising air pollution

Democrat Byron launched a write-in campaign after losing the primary​ to Walton in June.

The agency granted an emergency use license to Covaxin, saying the two-dose regimen is about 78% effective at preventing severe COVID-19.

The agency granted an emergency use license to Covaxin, saying the two-dose regimen is about 78% effective at preventing severe COVID-19.

The global death toll from COVID-19 has topped 5 million, nearly two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.

India and the U.K. will launch a project that aims to create a solar grid connecting countries in different parts of the world at the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.

Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan’s son has walked out of jail and was greeted with dancing and firecrackers, over three weeks after his arrest during a drug raid on a cruise ship party in Mumbai.

Nepalese authorities are searching for dozens of people missing in this week's heavy rains, floods and landslides, as survivors complain they are yet to receive any government help.

Floods and landslides triggered by days of torrential rains have killed at least 99 people in Nepal since Monday.

Celebrities have joined Prince William in London for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize.

India is reopening its borders to fully vaccinated foreign tourists traveling on chartered flights starting Friday.

The number of people killed by tuberculosis has risen for the first time in more than a decade, largely because fewer people have got tested and treated as resources have been diverted to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

An energy crisis is looming over India as coal stockpiles grow perilously low, adding to challenges for a recovery in Asia's third largest economy from the pandemic.

India, the world’s largest vaccine producer, will resume exports and donations of surplus coronavirus vaccines in October after halting them during a devastating surge in domestic infections in April.

Officials say infections following monsoon rains have led to a fever outbreak in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state, killing at least 114 people in the past three weeks.

Ford is ending auto production in India after logging accumulated operating losses of more than $2 billion over the past 10 years.

More students in India will be able to step inside a classroom for the first time in nearly 18 months, as authorities have given the green light to partially reopen more schools despite apprehension from some parents and signs that infections are picking up again.

India’s economy grew by 20.1% in the April-June quarter from the same period a year earlier, when it suffered a record contraction, raising hopes of an economic recovery.

A lockdown in Australia’s largest city was extended through September and tougher measures to curb the coronavirus’s delta variant were imposed Friday, including a curfew and a mask mandate outdoors.

Every two years, when an Olympics convenes, its organizers harness billions of dollars to make sure the entire affair is tightly, carefully scripted.

Vaccine maker Novavax is asking regulators in India, Indonesia and the Philippines to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 shot.

Australia’s most populous state is reporting the worst day of its outbreak of the coronavirus delta variant, with a record 262 new local infections and five deaths from COVID-19.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is condemning an incident in which a swastika was carved into an elevator wall at the State Department.

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90% of its eligible adult population in one week, exceeding the rates in countries with far greater resources.

India’s government has dismissed a recent study which estimated that the country’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, calling it “misleading” and “fallacious.”.

At least 20 people have been killed in landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the Indian city of Mumbai.

U.S. President Joe Biden, China's Xi Jinping, Japan's Yoshihide Suga and Vladimir Putin of Russia are among Pacific Rim leaders gathering virtually to discuss strategies to help economies rebound from a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone.

COVID-19 deaths and cases are on the rise again globally in a dispiriting setback that is triggering another round of restrictions and dampening hopes for a return to normal life.

New COVID-19 cases per day in the U.S. have doubled over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.

The White House says President Joe Biden is nominating Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as ambassador to India, selecting a high-profile ally to serve in one of the most difficult diplomatic posts.

The death toll from COVID-19 has eclipsed 4 million as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.

Hospitals near Bangladesh’s border with India are crowded with patients struggling to breathe and worried relatives desperately trying to find oxygen cylinders.

Victor Caratini hit a two-run, game-ending homer two batters after Eric Hosmer hit a tying, two-run homer for the San Diego Padres, who beat the Cincinnati Reds in a 6-4 thriller before the first sellout crowd at Petco Park since 2019.

The U.K.’s latest surge in coronavirus infections is gathering pace.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks until July 19, as a result of the spread of the delta variant.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has hinted that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed as a result of the spread of the delta variant first identified in India.

Britain’s main doctors’ union has joined calls for the next planned lockdown easing in England to be delayed as figures showed new coronavirus cases across the U.K. running at their highest level since late February.

UT Health San Antonio infectious disease specialist Dr. Ruth Berggren discussed the latest with COVID-19 and vaccinations in the KSAT Q&A.

Police say a bus carrying migrant workers after the lifting of coronavirus restrictions hit a delivery van on a highway in northern India, killing at least 17 people.

French health authorities are racing to contain scattered cases of the more contagious delta virus variant, as France prepares to reopen its borders to vaccinated visitors.

Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are plummeting across much of Europe.

Australia’s second-largest city is set to enter its fourth lockdown at midnight as concern grows over the rapid spread of infections from a coronavirus variant.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce former senior State Department official Nicholas Burns to serve as his ambassador to China and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to be his ambassador to India.

The disparities of the coronavirus pandemic were already stark in India, where access to health care is as stratified and unequal as other parts of its society.

Heavy winds and a high tide are lashing parts of eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh as a cyclone moved ashore where more than 1.1 million people were evacuated during a devastating coronavirus outbreak.

The official coronavirus death toll in India has passed 300,000 as a devastating surge of new infections appears to be easing in big cities.