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Nagad empowers women in different form

It was Purnima Mandal’s well planned decision to start a business to support her husband and opened a mobile recharge point adjacent to the under construction coal-fired power station at

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‘If the others go I’ll go’: Inside China’s scheme to transfer Uighurs into work

Shawdesh desk: China’s policy of transferring hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang to new jobs often far from home is leading to a thinning out

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Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80pc in over-80s

A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%, an analysis in England shows. The Public

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Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80pc in over-80s

Shawdesh desk: A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%, an analysis in England shows.

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How Serum Institute of India is vaccinating the world

Shawdesh desk: As pharmaceutical giants ramp-up production in the race to vaccinate the world, one firm has shot into the lead. The Serum Institute of India (SII) isn’t a household

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Has China lifted 100 million people out of poverty?

Shawdesh Desk: Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has reached the ambitious goal set when he assumed office in 2012 of lifting 100 million people out of poverty. But

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The disease-resistant patients exposing Covid-19’s weak spots

The disease-resistant patients exposing Covid-19’s weak spots As a young man, Stephen Crohn could only watch helplessly as one by one, his friends began dying from a disease which had

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Sri Lanka human rights: UK seeks new UN resolution on abuses

Shawdesh desk: Sri Lanka is facing a new UN resolution calling on it to hold human rights abusers to account and deliver justice to victims of its 26-year civil war.

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