NEW DELHI -- At least three workers were killed and two others injured when a steel storage unit for pulses collapsed on them inside a mill in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, police said Wednesday.

The incident took place on Tuesday at the Manorma Jain Dal Mill in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation in Yavatmal, about 660 km northeast of Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra. (India-workers-deaths)

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DHAKA -- The Bangladeshi interim government will constitute a powerful trade negotiating body to overcome trade related challenges as the country is set to graduate from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status next year.

Bangladeshi Chief Adviser's Special Assistant Anisuzzaman Chowdhury made the announcement at a press conference Tuesday, saying "the trade negotiating body, headed by a senior official of the government, will be constituted soon." (Bangladesh-LDC Status)

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SINGAPORE -- U.S. broad tariffs on trade partners are prompting a rethink of global economic alignments. For Alfred Schipke, director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Asia's growing middle class may offer a path forward.

"Couldn't Asia focus on providing goods and services to that class complementing, and even at some point, supplementing American consumers?" Schipke said in an interview with Xinhua on Tuesday during the 2025 Think Asia Forum. (Singapore-Asia-Market-Interview)

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JAKARTA -- The Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has ended the issuance of permits for timber extraction at the country's vast mangrove forests to protect the ecosystem and take advantage of carbon trading, an official said here on Wednesday.

Indonesia, an archipelago, is home to 3,440,464 hectares of mangrove forest, habitats for various types of flora and fauna, according to the ministry. (Indonesia-Mangrove Forest Protection) Enditem

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