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UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Operations Raouf Mazou said the UN body’s commitments were aligned with its overarching vision to create resilient, sustainable, and inclusive solutions for displaced populations across Africa, reports Xinhua news agency.”UNHCR is taking action to mobilize financing, enhance legal frameworks, strengthen data availability, reduce carbon emissions, and promote sustainable settlement, all with the aim of mitigating climate-related displacement and ensuring the well-being of affected populations,” he said in a statement.Mazou and Majid Al Suwaidi, director-general and special representative of the UN climate change conference (COP28), traveled to northeast Kenya’s Dadaab refugee complex in advance of this…

“Issue notice…. Till the next date of listing, no coercive steps shall be taken against the petitioners in connection with the FIRs registered,” ordered a bench comprising Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud and Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, while posting the matter for hearing on September 11, Monday.Advocate Kanu Agrawal, representing Manipur, requested the court to hear the plea on Monday. “If it could be taken on Monday…. Milords may send it to the High Court and the High Court may decide it on its own merits,” he said.The bench indicated that it may remit the matter to…

The latest, and possibly the gravest crisis, that confronts Pakistan are the vociferous mass protests that have engulfed the nation over exorbitant electricity bills. The protests which started from Rawalakot in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) have now spread across the country with people burning the bills in street-level protests. Electricity prices have doubled in just three months while fuel prices have touched all-time highs.The protests over cost of living take place along with sectarian tensions in Gilgit Baltistan, protests of “azadi” in POK as well as a raging nationalist movement in Balochistan that has the powerful Pakistani Army in its…

Colombo, Sep 6 (IANS) Former Sri Lanka cricketer Sachithra Senanayake was arrested on Wednesday over match-fixing charges after he appeared before the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Sports Ministry. He will be produced before a court later in the day.Last month, the Colombo Magistrate issued an order banning the 38-year-old from traveling abroad for three months. This was on a direction by the Attorney General’s (AG) to SIU to frame criminal charges against the former cricketer.According to the charges, Senanayake had allegedly approached two cricketers in the first edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL) in 2020 on the…

New York, Sep 6 (IANS) The 20-year-old Ben Shelton scripts history at Flushing Meadows after he knocked out countryman Francis Tiafoe in the topsy-turvy quarterfinal. Shelton needs just one more game to reach his first Grand Slam final after defeating Tiafoe with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-2 scoreline.With Tuesday night’s win, the 20-year-old becomes the youngest American to reach the US Open semifinal since Michael Chang in 1992.Shelton impressively improved to break into the Top 20 of the ATP live rankings following a heartbreaking first-round loss at the tournament last year when he was rated No. 165. However, it won’t…

Colombo, Sep 6 (IANS) The Super 4 stages of the ongoing Asia Cup are set to begin on Wednesday as the four teams locked in for the next stage of the continental tournament.After a thrilling victory over Afghanistan on Tuesday, co-host Sri Lanka rampaged into the Super 4 stage of the tournament. The arch-rivals Pakistan and India already qualified for the Super 4 stage from Group A, and now Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are the two teams from Group B who clinched the other two spots. The four teams will now play three more matches during the Super 4 stage…

San Francisco, Sep 6 (IANS) Microsoft is discontinuing its requirement for Windows 11 users in the European Economic Area (EEA) to use Microsoft Edge for accessing widgets and searching results.The tech giant has begun testing changes to Windows 11 in recent test builds, which will be limited to countries within Europe.”In the European Economic Area (EEA), Windows system components use the default browser to open links,” reads a change note from a Windows 11 test build released to Dev Channel testers.According to The Verge, Microsoft has been neglecting default browser choices in Windows 10 search and the taskbar widget that…

Mumbai, Sep 6 (IANS) Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) CEO T. Koshy on Wednesday said that maintaining governance and trust building is the key for the digital commerce ecosystem in the country and ONDC has achieved this task. Addressing the Global Fintech Fest 2023 (GFF 2023) here with Noopur Chaturvedi, CEO, NPCI Bharat BillPay Limited and Suresh Sethi, MD and CEO, Protean eGov Technologies, Koshy emphasised that ONDC comes in as a network administrator.“We facilitate a lot more transparency on how network participants connect with each other. At ONDC, we have put together certain mechanisms that every participant has to…

Holding that the NC is entitled to plough symbol in the elections of LAHDC, the Supreme Court set aside the August 5 notification for the poll.The Supreme Court has directed the Ladakh UT administration to issue a fresh notification for the electoral exercise within seven days.The apex court also imposed a penalty of Rs one lakh on Ladakh administration which had declined to authorise the NC to use the plough symbol for the elections.Further details were awaited.–IANSsq/dpb

‘Haddi’ aims to shed light on the hardships of the queer community. And to get the representation right, the makers, including producer duo Sanjay Saha and Raadhika Nanda roped in versatile actors to portray interesting characters in the film, one of them is Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub.The producer of the film, Sanjay, pointed out: “It wasn’t a normal role but a very pivotal one, as he had to portray Nawazuddin’s husband in the film. We tried to convince him a few times but he refused. But eventually, Zeeshan came back to us and said ‘let’s do it, I am getting a…