Tag: South Asia
This is how the US revealed the alleged death list of Sikhs
South Asia Correspondent Naila Saleem tells how the high-profile assassination of a Sikh leader in Canada this summer may be one in a series of planned assassination attempts. Host: Robin Olin Guest: Naila Saleem, South Asia Correspondent Producer: Ulrika Lindqvist and Catarina Spåre Gustafsson With sound from: Vancouver Sun, CBC, Breaking News Punjab, PTCPunjabi, Aaj…
From loopholes to lives lost: European shipping giants ignore dangers in Bangladeshi shipyards
DHAKA, Bangladesh – According to Human Rights Watch, European shipping companies are abandoning their old ships for scrap on Bangladeshi shores in dangerous and polluting conditions that have killed workers pulling them apart. Bangladesh’s southeastern Sitakunda beaches have emerged as one of the world’s largest shipyards, fueling the South Asian country’s booming construction industry and…
Behind the scenes at the UN, the row over the ore railway and Fukuyama, the political scientist who was wrong – or?
HOUR 1 The UN General Assembly has opened and heads of state and ministers have replaced each other in the speaker’s chair during the week; yesterday the Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström spoke. USA Correspondent Ginna Lindberg reports. When will we see an end to gang violence? Fryshuset’s CEO Johan Oljeqvistpolice chief Carin Götblad and…
Global real estate prices on a steep ascend: Experts predict significant increases
In the dynamic real estate market, a combination of factors is contributing to the notable rise in prices. Among them, 37 percent of respondents pointed to increased demand stemming from improved living standards, rising incomes, population growth, and the desire for more living space. The ongoing shift towards remote work is also a significant influencer…
Modi’s yoga charm offensive is an ode to India’s soft power
The Indian Prime Minister led from the front at a record-breaking multinational event on the International Day of Yoga at the United Nations Even before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014, he made an impassioned plea to the New York-based United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to declare June 21 as International Yoga…
100 million women a year will need to use mobile internet to close gender gap by 2030, GSMA report reveals
PRNewswireLondon [UK], May 31: Over 800 million women will need to adopt mobile internet to close the digital gender gap by 2030 in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), according to the latest The latest figures indicate that the gap between the number of men and women using mobile the internet will not shut down without…
New nightmare life – from inside Taliban Afghanistan
South Asia Correspondent Naila Saleem talks about his recent trip to Afghanistan. Hear what the Taliban want to show and how women’s lives have changed. The news podcast Today’s Eco gives you a story every weekday morning with presenters Robin Olin and Lena Nordlund and with Sveriges Radio’s sharpest journalists. Host: Robin Olin Guest: Naila…
The coronation of King Charles, Turkish opposition positive to Swedish NATO membership and tall buildings – what are they really doing to us?
Hour 1 The usual military parades for Victory Day in Russia have been canceled in several regions. How is Putin doing? Hear Gudrun PerssonRussia expert and research leader at FOI, Total Defense Research Institute, and Stig Fredriksonauthor and Russia connoisseur. Ünal Çeviköz, from the CHP party, is believed to become foreign minister if the Turkish…
Support for Ukraine largely limited to Europe, the US and allies
In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries on their attitudes to the West and to Russia and China. The results in the studywhile not free from margin of error, are robust enough to be taken seriously. These…
Two thirds of the world’s youth lack basic skills
The figures vary from 24% in North America and the European Union to 89% in South Asia and 94% in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 101 countries the share is over 50 percent and in 36 countries even over 90 percent. “The world is nowhere near the UN’s sustainable development goals,” says Wößmann. “This is tragic because…
Today, the world’s population reaches 8 billion people
The annual World Population Prospects report, released on Monday to coincide with World Population Day, also says the world’s population will grow at its slowest rate since 1950, falling to less than 1 percent in 2020. While it took 12 years for the world’s population to grow from 7 billion to 8 billion, it will…
Science Round-Up: ‘Baby talk’ is a universal phenomenon and similar across languages, study shows
A joint study from Aarhus University and the University of York shows that the way of communicating with babies and toddlers, child-directed-speech (CBT), is a global phenomenon with many identical aspects that are shared by many languages. What is known as CBT generally involves high-pitched, slow-paced and animated speech. PhD student Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox,…
Now China’s future is decided – Xi wants to become the new Mao
The time has come to announce who will rule China for the next five years and point out the direction the country will take, in a party congress that looks to be historic in every way. Hear about how correspondent Björn Djurberg was stopped when he wanted to cycle past Himmelska fridens torg, in a…
Film critics are thinking about the next Palme d’Or when the Cannes Film Marathon ends
The Cannes Film Festival showed the last of its competition entries on Friday, ending its first full-scale edition since the pandemic. On the eve of the announcement of the Palme d’Or, FRANCE 24 spoke with critics from Japan, Italy and Bangladesh about watching the world’s premier film festival and their favorite films from this year’s…
Finnair is reducing summer flights to Japan and increasingly focusing on Western markets
The ban on flights imposed by Russia at the end of February on airlines in 36 countries, including Finland, will remain in force until the end of May, but Finnair is preparing for a long extension. The effects of the ban have been taken into account in both the company’s summer and winter schedules, he…
Naila Saleem on Taliban demands for burqa for women
Ekot’s South Asian correspondent Naila Saleem is in place in Afghanistan, where the Taliban have imposed strict demands on the burqa again.
Friday’s newspapers: Strike threat, Finnair’s problems and Tappara title
Helsingin sanomat newspaper reports Municipal workers in the metropolitan area will go on strike next week after a conciliation committee set up to unite unions and employers said on Thursday afternoon that the parties were too far apart and could not propose a new agreement. The agreement now seems a long way off, as employers…
New curfew in Sri Lanka – state of emergency announced
The president has imposed a curfew on the entire island with two hours’ notice. It extends to Monday morning at 6 and this to avoid more protests. Yesterday also came the news that the country had declared a state of emergency as a result of the protests. Hear our South Asian correspondent Naila Saleem about…
The political situation in Eastern Europe is deteriorating
According to the study, the economic situation in Eastern Europe deteriorated significantly, down 10 percentage points from the previous quarter. Estimates of the political situation also fell by 9 points. “Russia’s attack on Ukraine has plunged the region into a deep economic and political crisis,” says an ifon researcher. Niklas Potrafke. In contrast, assessments of…
Dayanita Singh 2022 Hasselblad Award
Gothenburg [Sweden]March 8 (ANI / PR Newswire): The Hasselblad Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2022 Hasselblad Award recipient is photographer Dayanita Singh. Dayanita Singh lives in New Delhi and is the first prize winner from South Asia and the first to receive the new prize money of SEK 2,000,000. The award ceremony will…
Delhi HC prevents several historians from publishing defamatory content about Dr Vikram Sampath, author of Savarkar’s biography
New Delhi [India]February 18 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Friday barred in an interim order several historians and others from publishing some defamatory content (online and offline) about Dr Vikram Sampath, author of a two-volume biography of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Recently, historian Audrey Truschke and others accused Dr Vikram Sampath of plagiarism and wrote a…
India leads the SDG dialogue with 56 countries and 4,100 participants at the 2022 RISE World Summit
New Delhi [India]February 12 (ANI / PNN): The RISE World Summit (RWS) 2022, the 9th edition of the network platform curated and designed by the RISE Infinity Foundation and Idobro Impact Solutions, ended on February 5, 2022. The summit was a 3-day celebration of the thematic influence of organizations and institutions from 56 countries that…
Pakistan faces lack of innovation due to low literacy, poor investment in education: Report
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 28 (ANI): Pakistan faces a lack of innovation due to low literacy, poor job training and lack of significant investment in education, local media reported. Of 132 economies in 2021, the Global Innovation Index has ranked Pakistan 99th, a ranking that reports claims indicate the country’s low literacy and lack of significant…
Friday’s newspapers: Abandoned guards, digital age dichotomy, Tampere adapting to trams
In August, Finland evacuated the employees of a company that provided security services and its families as a subcontractor to the Finnish Embassy in Afghanistan. However, several dozen employees of Tahiri Protection Risk Management Consulting were excluded from the evacuation decision and they still want help. Many of them fear for their lives, writes Friday…
The youth movement grows up. Climate Fight podcast part four transcript
This is a transcript of The youth movement grows up, part four of Climate Fight: the world’s biggest negotiation, a series from The Anthill podcast tied to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. In this episode, we talk to experts about how countries make sure not to leave people behind and widen inequalities as they…
Afghanistan will be a haven for Pak terror suits
Amsterdam [Netherlands], September 9 (ANI): Experts and political leaders have argued that the Taliban administration is likely to face governance issues as Afghan society has changed significantly since the Taliban first lost control of the country in 2001. Speaking at a webinar entitled “Afghanistan and the Regional Post – Taliban Takeover” organized by the Amsterdam-based…
COVID-19 inequality is a “catastrophic moral failure,” WHO says
He said many countries have a strategy of “getting enough vaccine” and “pushing enough vaccine to people”, assuming the COVID-19 pandemic would be shaken with the vaccine. “I’m sorry, it is not (the case),” he said. “There are not enough vaccines in the world and they are distributed terribly unfairly.” “In fact, we have lost…
Important message to the public in Björklinge, Skuttunge, Läby in Uppsala municipality, Uppsala county.
The corona pandemic has indirectly led to the deaths of some 228,000 children in South Asia last year. It appears in a report from the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF reports the news agency AFP. Drastically reduced opportunities for care during the pandemic are one of the reasons according to the study, which also estimates that…
Delhi police would notify the accused seven days in advance
New Delhi [India]March 15 (ANI): A court in Delhi when it disposed of the pending bail applications moved by Nikita Jacob, Shantanu Muluk and Shubham Kar Chaudhari said that the investigating authority / Delhi police would notify the accused seven days in advance, if they intend to arrest them in the document tool “Toolkit” related…
One in three women experiences violence worldwide: UN Women
This violence starts early: One in four young women (aged 15-24) who have been in a relationship have already experienced violence by a close partner by the mid-20s. “Violence against women is endemic in all countries and cultures, causing damage to millions of women and their families, and has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,”…
From Iceland – Top five vegan snacks cheaply (ish)
Reykjavík is widely known for being one of the most expensive cities in Europe and veganism is often said to be one of the most expensive diets in the world. With that in mind, the term “cheap” is used quite loosely here. That doesn’t change the fact that this vegan dish is absolutely delicious and…
Death of Pakistani dissidents dangerous trend: Report
Amsterdam [Netherlands]December 26 (ANI): The killing of Pakistani dissidents abroad is a dangerous trend that must be stopped and multilateral bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) must also wake up according to a European think tank. While the European Foundation for South Asian…