December2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected more over 50 million people (5 crores) in the country’s informal economy. Women and adolescent girls who work in this industry continue to suffer the most. Participation in the labor market...

Saudi Arabia hiked oil prices for Asian and US clients, indicating that demand remains high despite the emergence of the coronavirus’s omicron strain. Bloomberg says that the move comes days after OPEC and its allies –...

235 individuals have been arrested in Pakistan after a Sri Lankan man was beaten and burned to death for blasphemy. Approximately 900 people have been charged as a result of the event on Friday. On Saturday,...

The England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed on Saturday that Eileen Ash, the oldest-ever Test cricketer, has died at the age of 110. Ash, a right-arm seam bowler, made her Test debut against Australia in 1937...

Officials claimed that rescuers in Indonesia scrambled to find survivors in communities coated by molten ash after Mount Semeru erupted, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more. On Saturday, the largest volcano on the...

Three persons were murdered and two others were injured in an avalanche in the Salzburg region while skiing off-piste, according to the Austrian Red Cross. The accident occurred Saturday at a height of 2,400 meters (7,800...

Antony Sher, an award-winning stage and cinema actor, died on Friday at the age of 72 following a battle with cancer, according to the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). Sher, who was born in South Africa, was...

On Saturday, a bus carrying more than 20 people to a wedding in Kenya was washed away by fast-flowing waves as it attempted to cross a flooded river. As the driver attempted to manage the swelling...

India’s total number of COVID-19 cases increased to 3,46,24,360, according to data released on Saturday by the Union Health Ministry, although active cases decreased to 99,974. According to numbers released at 8 a.m. on Saturday, the...

The United States warned Saturday that it would not allow Iran to “slow walk” international negotiations over its nuclear program, a day after heaping blame on Tehran for the stalled process. “We can’t accept a situation...