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Oil product inventories at the UAE’s Port of Fujairah climbed 16% in the week to May 31, the biggest increase since the first week of 2019, with gains posted in all categories, showed Fujairah Oil Industry Zone data provided exclusively to S&P Global Platts on June 2. The total stood at 23.694 million barrels on .
The Maritime Relations of India, the Maldives and Sri Lanka Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The Maldives, Sri Lanka and India share a maritime neighbourhood in the Indian Ocean (IO). The Indian Maritime Security Strategy is clear that India’s maritime neighbourhood and its navy are important facets of its political and economic relationships with countries in that region.
The Maldives and Sri Lanka are strategically located close to major sea lines of communication.
India considers the Maldives and Sri Lanka as being in its sphere of influence, which makes China’s increasing footprint in the island countries a major concern for New Delhi.
Both Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will be looking to move up the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) standings when they face off here at the Pallekele Stadium in the first Test from Wednesday.While Sri Lanka are eighth with 20 percentage of points .
Covid disruption led to nearly a quarter of a million infant deaths in South Asia, UN estimates
Closed clinics and suspended health programmes are thought to be behind the large numbers of extra deaths in young children
Covid-19 s disruption of healthcare in South Asia led to nearly a quarter of a million young children s deaths last year, the United Nations has estimated.
An analysis of the impact of closed clinics and suspended health programmes suggested there had been large numbers of extra deaths soon after birth or from malnutrition and childhood diseases.
Modelling from the UN s children s body, Unicef, estimated that there had been 229,000 more deaths among under fives than in 2019. Three-out-of-five of those deaths were thought to be among newborns.