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Pakistan's development expenditure has nearly come to a standstill, with just Rs 22.5 billion spent in the first two months (July-August) of the fiscal year, against an annual budget allocation of Rs 950 billion, Dawn reported. This comes amid rising interest payments and disruptions caused by a change in the government. Dawn is a Pakistani English-language newspaper. As per data from the Ministry of Planning and Development, the actual expenditure on core development in two months further plunged to a mere Rs 8.1 billion after excluding the Rs 14.4 billion disbursed by the previous Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government for its parliamentarians' schemes, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Achievement Programme (SAP), during the first 40 days of the fiscal year. A senior official claimed that a significant portion of Rs 8.1 billion was spent before the caretaker government took office. This amount included Rs 2.8 billion utilised by water sector projects, Rs 1.5 billion in the power sector, and an additional Rs 1.4 billion in the information technology and telecom sector, covering both local and international contractual obligations.

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Global Biofuel Alliance. A total of 19 countries and 12 international organisations have agreed to join the alliance with India, USA, and Brazil, the founding member countries. The alliance is aimed at creating and promoting the adoption of biofuels and expanding bioenergy access across the world.

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fastest-growing economy in the world? Not India. It is Guyana. The country's GDP is expected to grow 38% in 2023, after registering growth of 62% in 2022 and averaging over 30% in the two years before that.

Heavy rain lashed several parts of Gujarat on Sunday, flooding low-lying areas and cutting off several villages as Narmada and other rivers are in full spate, prompting shifting of hundreds of people to safer places, officials said. Several areas in Ahmedabad were waterlogged after the city received 76 mm of rainfall in 12 hours ending at 6 pm on Sunday, throwing the normal life out of gear.

Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Monday. Western Madhya Pradesh is expected to witness intense rainfall on September 17. Moderate rainfall will be witnessed in other parts of the state, the IMD said.

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West Nile virus, including fatalities among residents. Here's an overview of the situation and the potential risks associated with this mosquito-borne illness.

Climate change and global warming have played a devastating role in maintaining the ecological balance of the planet earth. As per satellite data a new worrying benchmark for Antarctica shows that the sea-ice surrounding the region is well below any previous recorded winter level, reported BBC. "It's so far outside anything we've seen, it's almost mind-blowing," BBC quoted Walter Meier, who monitors sea-ice with the National Snow and Ice Data Center, as saying.

Siddaramaiah on Sunday said he will write a second letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his time for an all-party delegation to discuss Cauvery and other river water issues, complaining that the PM has not responded to his first letter even after a month. The BJP, the CM told the media in Kalaburagi, had 25 MPs, but none of them would open their mouth before the PM on subjects related to water. Karnataka, Siddaramaiah said, was crippled by a bad drought. Siddaramaiah and his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin, though aligned politically, have been at each other’s neck on the Cauvery issue.

Ladakh witnessed «unbelievable» changes «for the better» since the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution, Lieutenant Governor Brigadier (Retd) B D Mishra has said, exuding confidence that it would be the most developed Union Territory in the country in the next couple of years. Mishra, who took over as Ladakh L-G in February, said his priorities include ensuring that the coming generations do not face water scarcity and creating adequate jobs for the locals, besides making Ladakh «corruption-free and delay-free». Last year, over 5.31 lakh tourists visited the Union Territory which has a population of around 2.75 lakh, he said. «I have been there (in Ladakh) for seven months now and there is a sea change in terms of development, in people's outlook, in the benefit (being extended) to the people and also to the comfort of living,» the Lt Governor told PTI-Video in an exclusive interview in Jammu recently. The local population has ambitions in agriculture, horticulture, pisciculture, sericulture, and animal husbandry sectors which are making progress, he said. Mishra said the people of Ladakh are coming forward in setting up startups while infrastructures such as roads, bridges, tunnels, helipads and airports are being developed at a rapid speed. This has been possible only after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution in August 2019 when Ladakh was carved out of Jammu and Kashmir and became a Union Territory on October 31 of that year, he said. Before that, there were agitations with people demanding that Ladakh be declared a Union Territory.

H-1B visa programme as a form of «indentured servitude», Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy has vowed to “gut” the lottery-based system and replace it with meritocratic admission if he wins the race to the White House in 2024. The H-1B visa, much sought-after among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. Ramaswamy himself has used the H-1B visa programme 29 times. From 2018 through 2023, US Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for Ramaswamy's former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire employees under H-1B visas, the Politico reported.

Derna, sweeping thousands to their deaths, the international aid effort gained pace on Sunday to help the grieving survivors. Search-and-rescue teams wearing face masks and protective suits kept up the grim search for any survivors who may still be trapped in the mud-caked wasteland of smashed buildings, crushed cars and uprooted trees. Traumatised residents, 30,000 of whom are now homeless in Derna alone, are in dire need of clean water, food, shelter and basic supplies amid a growing risk of cholera, diarrhoea, dehydration and malnutrition, UN agencies warn. «In this city, every single family has been affected,» said one resident, Mohammad al-Dawali. Seir Mohammed Seir, a member of the security forces, spoke of a three-month-old girl who lived through the tragedy: «Her entire family died, she was the only one who survived.» Emergency response teams and relief goods have been deployed from France, Iran, Malta, Russia, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, with more on the way from multiple other European and Arab nations. The aid effort has been hampered by the political division of Libya, which was thrown into war and chaos after a 2011 NATO-backed uprising led to the overthrow and killing of veteran dictator Moamer Kadhafi. The oil-rich North African country now remains split between two rival governments — a UN-backed administration in the capital Tripoli, and one based in the disaster-hit east. Amid the chaos, the true death toll remained unknown, with untold numbers feared swept into the sea. The health minister of the eastern administration, Othman Abdeljalil, has said that 3,252 people were confirmed dead in Derna, where corpses wrapped in blankets and in body bags have lined squares and streets. The UN

A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads as shipping costs soar

Venus experiences thunderstorms akin to Earth, proposing a new, eye-opening theory: the mesmerizing flashes of light on Venus are not lightning but meteors disintegrating as they hurtle through the planet's atmosphere. This groundbreaking revelation comes courtesy of a study published in the 'Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.' Researchers hailing from Arizona State University undertook this mission to decipher the true nature of Venus's radiant phenomena. Their investigation involved a meticulous analysis of the luminous occurrences, observed both at the Steward Observatory and Japan's Akatsuki orbiter. The study presents a puzzling conundrum, describing Venus's lightning as «either ubiquitous, rare, or non-existent, depending on how one interprets diverse observations.» The enigma deepens with the findings presented in the Plain Language Summary, available in the online library of Advancing Earth and Space Sciences.

Norfolk Southern's CEO pledged to continue working to improve safety after the consultant the railroad hired after the fiery Ohio derailment in February recommended making sure that safety is truly a priority at all levels and continuing many of the ef...

Congress government in Karnataka was in deep slumber over the drought situation, veteran BJP leader B S Yediyurappa on Sunday said his party will tour the state highlighting its 'failures,' and to strengthen the saffron party ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Taking exception to the style of functioning of the Siddaramaiah-led government, the former Chief Minister accused the administration of releasing Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu under pressure from the neighbouring state. Yediyurappa and several other BJP leaders today visited Kurudumale's lord Ganesha temple here and offered prayers to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday and ahead of the party's state wide tour. Greeting Modi on his birthday, Yediyurappa said, «To pray to god that he becomes PM once again, I have come here with other party leaders.» Noting that there was severe drought in the state, he said the government here has completely forgotten the public interest and is in a deep slumber.

Kramatorsk, a front-line city in Ukraine's Donetsk region, a group of individuals gathers in a basement three times a week. Their purpose? To find respite from the relentless shelling that reverberates through their lives, courtesy of Russian artillery.

Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China. Ramaswamy himself has used the visa programme 29 times. From 2018 through 2023, US Citizenship and Immigration Services approved 29 applications for Ramaswamy’s former company, Roivant Sciences, to hire employees under H-1B visas.