ISLAMABAD — The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province arrested 22 terrorists during intelligence-based operations, CTD Punjab said.

The personnel of the CTD of Punjab police conducted multiple operations in different districts of the province in a bid to avert terror activities, apprehending 22 terrorists, the Punjab CTD said in a statement on Tuesday. (Pakistan-Counter Terrorism)

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MANILA — Sweltering weather has forced 3,954 schools across the Philippines to implement alternative delivery modes of learning to protect the students from the high heat index, the government said Wednesday.

The Philippines’ Department of Education (DepEd) said many schools opted to ditch face-to-face classes, so students can study from home instead of going to school and avoid exposure to the hot weather. (Philippines-Heat Weather)

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DHAKA — Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than 3.65 U.S. dollars a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank in its Poverty Macro Update on Bangladesh.

Released as part of the South Asia Development Update on Tuesday, the report said half a million people in Bangladesh are expected to slip into extreme poverty between the fiscal year 2023 (FY23) and fiscal year 2024 (FY24) due to the erosion of purchasing power, as inflation will reach 9.6 percent. (Bangladesh-World Bank-Poverty)

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KABUL — Seven members of a family lost their lives in a landslide that hit a remote area in western Afghanistan’s Ghor province, state-run media Bakhtar News Agency reported Wednesday.

The mishap occurred Tuesday night in a mountainous village of Khuranj, Chaharsada district of the province, Bakhtar quoted local officials as saying. (Afghanistan-Landslide)

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JAKARTA — Indonesia currently ranks second at disaster risk in the world, said Indonesia’s National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) on Wednesday.

“Indonesia is ranked second out of 193 countries in The World Risk Report 2023,” said Prasinta Dewi, deputy for prevention at BNPB, at the launch of Disaster Preparedness Day 2024. (Indonesia-Disaster Risk)