ASIA TODAY India to overtake China in population by 2023

Other news of the day: Henan authorities will begin to release the funds of rural banks that had been blocked, torrential rains continue in Pakistan, in the Philippines dengue cases increase by 90%, in Uzbekistan they pay up to 35,000 dollars for a newborn baby.

INDIA

Next year, India will be the most populous country in the world, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, surpassing China. In November the planet will have 8,000 million inhabitants, but the growth will not be the same in all countries. There are 8 nations that will contribute more than half of the growth: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.

CHINA

Henan authorities will start releasing money to customers whose funds had been frozen by various rural banks. The news comes after the violence that broke out in the protests of recent days in the city of Zhengzhou. Payments will be made from Friday, through an association supervised by the Central Bank of China.

SRI LANKA

The Sri Lankan Parliament will elect a new president on July 20. This was announced yesterday by the spokesman Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, while awaiting the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, which is presumed to be tomorrow. Political instability could harm negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, the central bank governor said. During the protests in recent days, the demonstrators handed over $50,000 found in the presidential residence to the police.

PAKISTAN

The Yesterday’s torrential rains caused flooding in Karachi, the financial capital and largest city of Pakistan, submerging even its commercial district. The Navy participated in the rescue operations. In Balochistan, a dozen villages were under water. Last week, at least 64 people died as a result of the flooding of eight dams.

PHILIPPINES

Not only are Covid-19 infections rising, but also dengue cases increase in the Philippines, with a 90% increase over last year. In the first part of the year, at least 65,000 people were infected, while the new cases of coronavirus reported amount to 1,500 per day. The position of Minister of Health remains vacant in the new government of Ferdinand Marcos, who took office on June 30 and is isolated due to Covid.

SYRIA – TURKEY – RUSSIA

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to extend the authorization for sending humanitarian aid to Syria. An agreement was apparently reached last night, after Putin last week vetoed a UN resolution that would have extended aid delivery to northwestern Syria by another year. For the United Nations, the Bab al-Hawa Turkish-Syrian border is the only way to reach the population without passing through areas controlled by Syrian government forces.

UKRAINE

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the UN has verified 124 cases of sexual violence in Ukraine, as reported on the organization’s site dedicated to the subject. “It’s just the tip of the iceberg,” says the UN representative in conflict zones, Pramila Patten. It should be noted that only reported individual cases are considered and not massive violence in conflict zones.

UZBEKISTAN

The security services of Uzbekistan reported several attempts to sell newborn babies in Tashkent and in the Syrdarynsk region. The price of a child born on a date after June 15 would be around $35,000. To curb the trade in children, women who reject their babies when giving birth in hospital are blocked.