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Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world’s food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday. “Nearly 3 billion people and more than half of the world’s food production are now in areas where total water storage is projected to decline,” said the report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW). The report also warned the water crisis could lead to an eight percent drop in GDP on average for high-income countries by 2050 and as much as 15 percent for lower-income countries. Disruptions of the water cycle “have major global economic impacts,” said the report. The economic declines would be… Read More »Water Crisis Threatening Half Of Global Food Production: Report

Liam Payne, former member of the renowned boy band One Direction, has tragically died at the age of 31. According to AP, the musician died after falling three floors from a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alberto Crescenti, head of the state emergency medical system, said that he fell into a courtyard at Casa Sur Hotel, as per the report. The circumstances surrounding the fall are still under investigation. Born in Wolverhampton, England, Liam Payne first gained attention as a contestant on The X Factor in 2008 but was eliminated. He returned two years later, joining Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik to form One Direction, which finished third on the show… Read More »Liam Payne, Former One Director Member, Dies At 31

A combative Kamala Harris pledged a clean break from Joe Biden’s presidency Wednesday in a feisty interview with right-wing Fox News as she sought to reach Republican voters wary of Donald Trump. Harris clashed with interviewer Bret Baier on hot-button issues including immigration, with the Democratic nominee repeatedly asking to be allowed to complete her answers. “May I finish responding?” Vice President Harris at one point said to Baier, regarded as a tough but fair interviewer, in an encounter broadcast from the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Pressed on previous comments when she said she could not think of anything she would have done differently from Biden, Harris replied: “My presidency will not be a continuation… Read More »Kamala Harris Says Her Presidency Would “Not Be A Continuation” Of Biden

In a late night post by the Ministry of External Affairs, India affirmed its stand on the massive diplomatic row with Canada. Putting the responsibility of the disastrous diplomatic fallout squarely on Justin Trudeau, the foreign ministry reiterated that “Canada has presented us with no evidence whatsoever”. In its terse-but-sharp response to Mr Trudeau’s deposition at the Commission of Inquiry, the foreign ministry wrote in its post-midnight statement that “What we have heard today only confirms what we have been saying consistently all along – Canada has presented us (India) no evidence whatsoever in support of the serious allegations that it has chosen to level against India and Indian diplomats” Putting the onus of the… Read More »“As We Had Said, No Evidence Whatsoever”: India On Trudeau’s Deposition

<p> Kathmandu, Oct 17 (PTI): World Weather Attribution, an international collaboration, has underscored the urgent need for Nepal to limit development in low-lying, riverside areas of the cities and scale up early warning and prompt action to avoid repeat of flooding disasters.</p><p> “Climate change was responsible for the extreme three day downpours in Nepal about 10 percent more intense,” concluded the organization in its recently published report. The flood and landslide triggered by heavy rain in Nepal in late September caused heavy loss to the country as it claimed at least 244 lives. “The rainfall became 10 percent more intense by human-induced climate change,” pointed out the report.</p><p> “Bursts of rainfall will become even more… Read More »Human induced climate change behind flooding disasters in Nepal