October2016

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) reaffirmed its commitment to support infrastructure development in Afghanistan, and stressed the importance of improved project implementation to enhance development impact in the country. The statement was made by...

News Hour: The United States resettled 84,994 refugees during fiscal year (FY) 2016 ending September 30th – just six people short of the 85,000 target set by the Obama administration last year. At the same time,...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $109 million loan to support flood risk management for communities in the Banten and Maluku provinces of Indonesia to enhance preparation for future threats while ensuring...

News Hour: IOM Director General William Lacy Swing last week briefed the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf for the first time at the United Nations in New York with the aim of...

News Hour: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has provided funding for IOM to implement a project to contribute to stabilization of conflict-affected communities in Diyala governorate, Iraq. The one-year project aims to...

News Hour: Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time an organism is expected to live, based on the year of their birth, their current age and other demographic factors including sex.Although healthy life...

News Hour: High blood pressure, smoking, high blood sugar, high body mass index, and childhood undernutrition were the world’s leading risk factors for premature death and ill health in 2015. Since 1990, there have been particularly...

News Hour: The world population has gained more than a decade of life expectancy since 1980, rising to 69.0 years in men and 74.8 years in women in 2015. An important contributor to this has been...

News Hour: The influential Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is facing a possible leadership crisis after the country’s Supreme Court demanded it accept sweeping changes by Friday. The BCCI finds itself on a...

News Hour: Batsmen Suresh Raina has been recalled into India’s one-day international (ODI) squad for the five-match series against New Zealand this month. The 29-year-old, who last played an ODI for India in 2015, was overlooked...