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After Delhi Malviya Nagar fire, Noida high-rise in Sector 75 sees blaze, horrific video shows panic among residentsA massive fire broke out in a 12th-floor apartment of a 28-storey residential tower in Noida's Sector 75, triggering panic and a swift evac...
Tropical storm Jangmi hits Southwestern Japan: Injures 9 in Japan, people urged to evacuate, leaves thousands without powerTyphoon Jangmi, a severe tropical storm, battered southwestern Japan on Tuesday. The storm cut off power to tens of thousands of homes, gro...
Football emerges as India’s second-most popular sport after Cricket: NielsenFootball is now India's second-most popular sport among adults, trailing only cricket, according to new Nielsen research. The sport's popul...
Can AI financial advice help you retire more comfortably?A retirement economist expresses concern over AI's use in financial advice, noting its limitations despite providing basic guidance. The ar...
Who is Helle Lyng, the journalist who asked PM Modi, “Why don’t you take questions from the freest press in the world?”A Norwegian journalist raised questions about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's limited media engagement during a joint press event. She highl...
In the shadow of COVID, health officials fight panic over Hantavirus outbreakA hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has sparked public concern. Health officials are working to communicate clearly, drawing lessons fro...
Israel-Iran war: Korea coordinates with Tehran to normalise shipping route through Strait of HormuzSouth Korea is actively communicating with nations like Iran to ensure the Strait of Hormuz shipping route is normalized. The country is mo...
Japan to send troops to help stop bear attacksJapan is sending its military to Akita prefecture to combat a record number of bear attacks. Over 100 people have been injured and 11 have ...
More countries, including China, are grappling with shrinking and aging populationsCountries grappling with population decline and aging issues offer financial incentives to encourage childbirth. China, Japan, Italy, and S...
Japan in dire straits: Tokyo to introduce 4-day workweek from April 2025 as country faces big problem; here's how it is trying to solve itJapan's fertility rate is currently at a record low, and this has pressured Tokyo to introduce new reforms in its working culture in order ...
View: For better jobs, don’t just look West, look to places like JapanDemographers use the term 'demographic dividend' to describe the economic benefits that a country enjoys from its large young population. I...
Japan's GDP looks set to trail Germany at number four slotWhile the economy is seen returning to annualised growth of 1.2% in the fourth quarter after a bruising contraction in the summer, figures ...
Marriage, money and maternity: A third of young women in Japan may never have children, says studyAround 33.4% of women born in 2005 in Japan may never have children, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security ...
Japan's population falls while foreign residents rise to recordThe data showed that Japanese society is aging across the country and suggests that foreign nationals are playing an ever bigger role in ma...
Japan to consider sharing COVID-19 vaccines amid calls to help TaiwanTaiwan is battling a spike in domestic infections and has vaccinated only about 1% of its population, while Japan has secured more than 400...
Major economies to slow down, India's demographics favourable: DBSAccording to DBS, India's potential GDP growth will fall by only six-tenths of a percentage point (60 basis points) over the coming decade.
India's Internet user population is 73.9 million, 3rd largest in worldOf the total 644 million home and work Internet users in Asia-Pacific as of March 2013, China accounted for a lion's share of 54 per cent f...
India’s super-rich club shrinkingCompared to last year, India has 485 fewer super-wealthy individuals, followed by China which lost 265 and Japan which lost 210.
- How are tsunami warnings given in the Indian Ocean?
Indian Ocean tsunami that killed almost 230,000 people, the UN’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission began coordinating efforts to c...
- Elderly now a fifth of Japan population
One-fifth of Japan’s population now consists of people aged 65 or older, the nation’s latest census data show, a development that could thr...