Punishing hot weather affects not only a person’s health or work productivity but also affects couples’ fertility and birth outcomes, a project by the National University of Singapore (NUS) found. Rising temperatures could further reduce Singapore’s resident total fertility...
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Madrid (10/03 – 21.43)Exorcism is a key source of income for Sabohiddin Shodiev, a popular cleric in his rural community on the outskirts of Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan. Shodiev — not his real name — says that every week he treats about 15 clients who ask him to expel...
With less than a month before the dates for the general elections are expected to be announced and the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) kicks in, the UK is still pushing for a greater opening up of the India economy under the free trade agreement (FTA) being negotiated. The signing of the deal...
India’s net oil and gas imports in value terms for April-January of fiscal year 2023-24 (FY24) declined by nearly a fifth on a year-on-year (YoY) basis to $101.3 billion due to relatively lower prices of crude oil, natural gas, and petroleum products in the international market, as per...
Tajikistan’s existential project to build the colossal 335-meter-high Roghun hydropower dam is proceeding apace, but costs are spiraling, and to a level that is making it hard to see where the government is going to find the funds needed to finish the work. To complicate matters for...