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Climate disasters force Bangladesh children from classrooms to work
As families are forced to migrate after disasters, many children leave school never to go back again, raising the school dropout rate to over 17 percent in 2021, while UNICEF says 1.7 million children of the country are now working
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All that glitters: How the money-spinning IPL turned cricket into gold
The world's most valuable cricket tournament, now in its 15th iteration, was a pioneer in Twenty20 league cricket. Its success and popularity has spawned copycat competitions in other countries and generated a fortune for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
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Three decades after Pablo Escobar's death, drugs ravage Medellin
Junkies frequent hundreds of sales points dotted around Colombia's second city, which has become the epicenter of the domestic drug trade
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LIC IPO: Issue oversubscribed by nearly three times
Insurer's grey market premium down; future initial public offering listings might slow down due to volatility
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What Eid looked like in a Taliban-run Afghanistan
Now that the war is over, people can travel freely down highways devoid of gunfire, roadside bombs and attempts at extortion. The terrifying drone of warplanes overhead is long gone. But for many, the holiday served as a reminder of the dissonance between the promise of peace many Afghans had imagined and the realities of the end of the war
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Elvira Nabiullina: The woman steering Russia's war economy
In the world of central bankers, among technocrats tasked with keeping prices under control and financial systems stable, Nabiullina became a rising star for using orthodox policies to manage an unruly economy often tethered to the price of oil
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US Senate to vote Wednesday on abortion rights bill
The vote will nonetheless put lawmakers on record regarding one of the country's most divisive issues, and Democrats hope the debate will galvanize voters to go to the polls in the midterm elections exactly six months from Sunday
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LTI-Mindtree merger to create an $18 billion company challenging Tech Mahindra
The expected merger between the two L&T Group companies was announced Friday last, with one small surprise. LTI CEO Sanjay Jalona is leaving
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Bring your dogs to work, Canadian offices say as work from home ends
The practice is helping drum up business, as well as increased staff productivity. Workers are forced to take regular breaks for dog walks instead of "eating lunch at their desk," and are not fretting about their pet being left alone at home
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Downtown Beijing goes quiet as zero-Covid policy smothers capital
Beijing residents fear they may soon find themselves in the grip of the same draconian measures that have trapped most of Shanghai's 25 million people at home for several week
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This $10 million Bob Dylan centre is opening up his songwriting secrets
Visitors to the new Bob Dylan Center here will soon get, at the tap of a finger, what generations of the most avid Dylanologists have only dreamed of: a step-by-step, word-by-word map of how Dylan wrote a song