The leaders of the Quad grouping, including the U.S., India, Australia and Japan on Tuesday agreed to boost cooperation and fight climate change during a summit in Tokyo with an eye on increasingly assertive China in the Indo-Pacific region.Flash floods and landslides in India's northeast Assam state killed at least 25 people and displaced over 650,000 from their homes in the past 10 days, officials said on Tuesday. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Tuesday announced that the federal cabinet had decided it would not allow ousted former prime minister Imran Khan’s PTI to hold its planned long march to the capital, which is due to take place on May 25.Locals in Gilgit Baltistan have lamented the tourism sector in the region is suffering badly due to poor roads and lack of accommodation for tourists. Sri Lanka increased fuel prices on Tuesday, a long-flagged move to mend public finances and combat its debilitating economic crisis, but the hikes are bound to add to galloping inflation at least in the short term.Ever since Taliban took control of Afghanistan last year, they have increased restrictions on women’s lives including barring girls from going to school beyond seventh grade.Giving a further push to adventure tourism potential of India's Union territory of Jammu & Kashmir, authorities have started paragliding on the outskirts of Srinagar city, which is attracting a large number of tourists and local enthusiasts.
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