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- Outdoor air pollution from all source’s accounts for 2.18 million deaths per year in India, second only to China according to a modelling study published in the BMJ.
- The research found that air pollution from using fossil fuels in industry, power generation, and transportation accounts for 5.1 million extra deaths a year worldwide.
- Despite a tangible growth downturn in the farm and services sectors as well as consumer spending, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at a higher-than-expected 7.6% in the July-September 2023 quarter, as per initial estimates from the National Statistical Office.
- Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100.
- He was behind the US bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, the US’s involvement in the 1973 Chilean military coup, the US’s tacit support to Argentina’s military junta, and notably, the US support for Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
- Nepal becomes first South Asian nation to register same-sex marriage.
- Taiwan is the only other country to legalise same-sex marriage in Asia.
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