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Achieved first-ever adjusted gross profit of $1.7 million, driven by a 400% revenue increase and the realization of economies of scale at the first recycling facility.
Improved operational efficiency by reducing cash spend on operations by 16% despite a fourfold increase in throughput, demonstrating a decoupling of volume from variable costs.
Secured a zero long-term debt position while increasing the cash balance to $49.5 million, providing a stable foundation for capital-intensive expansion projects.
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Achieved first-ever adjusted gross profit of $1.7 million, driven by a 400% revenue increase and the realization of economies of scale at the first recycling facility.
Improved operational efficiency by reducing cash spend on operations by 16% despite a fourfold increase in throughput, demonstrating a decoupling of volume from variable costs.
Secured a zero long-term debt position while increasing the cash balance to $49.5 million, providing a stable foundation for capital-intensive expansion projects.
Advanced the Tonopah Flats Lithium Project by receiving BLM certification for the plan of operations, marking the transition from pre-NEPA to the formal NEPA permitting process.

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HONG KONG, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The Himalayas are approaching a tipping point as glaciers melt faster than a decade ago, threatening ‌water security as the region approaches "peak water" by mid-century, according to ‌a study released this month.
The findings come after the collapse of a Himalayan glacier in late August along the Nepal-Tibet border, which caused cascading landslides and flash floods in the valleys below. At least 1,300 people have been confirmed dead and more than 5,300 are missing across Nepal and China's Tibet region.
As glaciers ‌retreat, they are leaving ⁠behind unstable glacial lakes held back by little more than loose rock and ice, above valleys where millions of ⁠people live, the study found.
The study was produced by Systemiq, a sustainability advisory firm, together with the Integrated Mountain Initiative, the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, and India's G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment.
Himalayan glacier mass loss ‌had accelerated in recent decades, while only 21 glaciers were currently monitored on the ground out of an estimated 40,000 glaciers across the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region, a vast mountain system spanning eight countries from Afghanistan to Myanmar, the study found.

#mountain #region #nepal

Sept 9 (Reuters) - The photos tell a story of lives, interrupted.
The schoolroom, gaily decorated with paintings and letters. The paint shop, where the shelves still contain rows of once colourful cans. The bathroom, the closet that held neatly piled clothing, the ‌yards. All are now covered with a thick layer of river mud that descended without warning on bustling communities.
As the waters ‌recede, the survivors remain stunned, grieving and praying.
A string of miracle rescues in recent days has kept hopes alive that more people might still be saved from the catastrophe of August 26 when a glacier collapsed, sending a mass of mud and rock crashing into a river along the border between Nepal and China's Tibet. The resulting floods washed away villages, snapped highways like twigs, and buried homes in the mud.
At least 1,380 bodies have so far been pulled from the wreckage, some far downstream from the site of the disaster. A wall outside a Kathmandu hospital plastered with photos and desperate appeals hints at the unfinished ‌story of an estimated 5,500 people who remain ⁠missing.

#nepal

Nepal is holding a day of mourning to remember those who died in the catastrophic floods that hit the country nearly two weeks ago. Meanwhile, rescuers are continuing to scour the ruins for hundreds of people still missing, including 18 Americans. It comes as a 64-year-old woman was rescued from the mud and debris alive, after being trapped below her collapsed home for ten days. NBC's Janis Mackey Frayer reports for TODAY.

#meanwhile #americans #mackey

By Adnan Abidi
BETRAWATI, Nepal, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Believing she had perished in Nepal's deadly floods, the family of Chandika **** ari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman's death.
Ten ‌days later, rescuers found her alive inside her collapsed home in the devastated Betrawati village, ‌where she had survived in a narrow pocket of air amid water and mud.
"The four-storey house was swept (away) by the floods and the house was left in the middle of a quicksand. While walking around it, we heard a voice 'save me,'" police officer Mahendra Darnal said.
In a rescue operation on Saturday lasting 45 minutes, Darnal and his team found Shrestha in a confined **** e and sent her to an army hospital.

#floods #House #adnan

By Nicoco Chan and Tingshu *******
GYIRONG, China, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Chinese officials said on Sunday that workers had recovered 12 more bodies as the search continued for hundreds still missing after a tsunami-like mudslide destroyed China's main border crossing with Nepal.
Rescue workers in bright ‌orange uniforms used excavators, shovels and ground-penetrating radar to scour the now-buried site of the Gyirong border crossing.
The border crossing became a grisly ‌emblem of the devastation that followed the collapse of a glacier on the Nepal side of the border on August 26 after videos showed a black wave of water, mud and debris sweeping over it with little warning.
Reuters and other news agencies visited the land port, which sits in a narrow river gorge, in the first trip organised for international media by China's foreign ministry on Sunday.

#gyirong #reuters #tingshu

Photo by Yamaha Racing.
Andrea Locatelli's 2026 has slid far enough that Yamaha is reshuffling his garage midseason. Starting from the French Round at Magny-Cours, the Pata Maxus Yamaha rider will work with a new crew chief, Emanuele Martinelli, replacing Giulio Nava for the final four rounds of the year, WorldSBK.com confirmed.
Niccolo Canepa, Yamaha Motor Europe's road racing sporting manager, spoke to the WorldSBK world feed during FP1 at Magny-Cours and did not dress up the situation. "On Locatelli's side, the results have been lower than the expectation, we can't hide from that," Canepa said. "We needed a bit of a reset to help him regain his confidence. To reshuffle the people in the garage could be a positive thing."
Andrea Locatelli walks the Magny-Cours track with his new Crew Chief Emanuele Martinelli.
The move comes after a campaign that has fallen well short of what the #55 delivered a year ago. Locatelli sits outside the top 10 in the 2026 standings, a stark drop from the fourth-place finish he managed in 2025, when he battled Alvaro Bautista and Danilo Petrucci for third and finally broke through for his first WorldSBK win in Race 2 at ****** en. This season he has yet to reach the podium at all. His best result is a fifth in Race 2 at Phillip Island, with his only other top-six coming in Race 1 at ****** en. Locatelli faces his first season without a podium in WSBK.

#yamaha #magny #andrea #canepa

Former India batter and Director of Cricket at the BCCI's Centre of Excellence, VVS Laxman, is set to travel with the Indian men's team to ******* an and will take charge as head coach in the absence of Gautam Gambhir for the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya later this month.

Gautam Gambhir will remain with the senior side for India's home ODI series against the West Indies. The first ODI is scheduled to be played on September 27.

Laxman will be ******* isted by former India spinner Sunil Joshi, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhadeep Ghosh, according to the list of coaches released by the Sports Ministry. The development was earlier reported by TimesofIndia.com in July.

Laxman has previous Asian Games experience, having coached the Indian men's team at the 2023 edition in Hangzhou, China, where India won the gold medal.
The cricket competition at the Asian Games will begin on September 24, with India scheduled to play its opening men's match on September 28. India will defend its men's T20 ******* le under captain Shreyas Iyer, with teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi also part of the squad. The men's team will face the second-placed side from Group A, which comprises Afghanistan, ******* an and Nepal.

The Indian women's team will also enter the tournament as defending champions and will be led by Harmanpreet Kaur. The women's side will enter the competition at the quarterfinal stage and face hosts ******* an. Amol Muzumdar will continue as the head coach of the women's team, with bowling coach Aavishkar Salvi and fielding coach Munish Bali completing his support staff.
Indian men's team: Shreyas Iyer (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Shivam Dube, Tilak Varma, Nitish ******* ar Reddy, Axar Patel, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Jasprit ******* rah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi.

Indian women's team: Harmanpreet Kaur (captain), Smriti Mandhana, Shafali Verma, Pratika Rawal, Deepti Sharma, Richa Ghosh, Gunalan Kamalini, Bharti Fulmali, Sree Charani, Renuka Thakur, Kranti Gaud, Arundhati Reddy, Shreyanka Patil, Radha Yadav, Nandani Sharma.

#coach

By Sahana Bajracharya
CHITWAN, Nepal, Sept 1 (Reuters) - For four agonising days after floodwaters tore through Nepal's Rasuwa district, Ayush Khadka's family searched desperately for any sign that the 21-year-old civil servant was still alive.
The Khadkas were among thousands of families clinging to hope amid ‌the chaos wrought by a glacial collapse that sent an unprecedented deluge of ice, rock, mud and debris crashing through valley towns and villages ‌in Nepal and across the border in China.
Ayush had spoken to relatives the night before the flood, and his social media account even appeared to show him as online the following morning, a small sign that gave the family hope he had survived.
As reports of widespread destruction emerged on August 26, family members immediately began what would turn out to be a futile search.

#nepal #ayush #hope #bajracharya

BEIJING, Aug 29 (Reuters) - The threat of a lake formed after a glacier collapse bursting near the China-Nepal border where a devastating flood occurred earlier this week has decreased, Chinese authorities said ‌on Saturday, as its size appears to have shrunk.
Satellite images from Thursday to Saturday morning suggest that ‌water in the lake – straddling the China-Nepal border at the confluence of two rivers – has been slowly flowing through, decreasing the reservoir gradually, state broadcaster CCTV reported citing the Water Resources Ministry.
The ministry said satellite imagery of the surface area of the lake at Purepu Tsangpo river showed it was 99,000 sqm in size on early Saturday morning – around the size of 14 football fields combined – having shrunk by 21,000 sqm compared with images from Thursday.
A glacier collapse on Wednesday sending a powerful torrent of rock, ‌ice, mud and debris through Himalayan ⁠mountain river systems swept away a border port complex linking China's Tibet to Nepal, killing hundreds and leaving thousands missing.
Experts and authorities have warned of the extremely high risk of ⁠secondary disasters in the valley, especially from the lake that was formed by glacier debris, potentially endangering rescue operations downstream.

#border #thursday #satellite

A family is searching for answers after an American traveling on a spiritual pilgrimage went missing amid a catastrophic Himalayan flood that has left hundreds dead and thousands unaccounted for.
Sunny Patel was watching viral footage of the torrent on the border between Nepal and China's Tibet Autonomous Region when he realized his father, Jitendra Patel, could have been caught in the disaster.
Employees retrieve banknotes near a bank covered in sludge after flash floods in Trishuli in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Aug. 30, 2026. The number of people missing in the catastrophic flood that sliced through the border area between Nepal and Tibet neared 3,000 as rescuers scoured deep mud for survivors.
Trapped Nepali Workers Pulled From Hydropower Tunnel After Catastrophic Flooding
"I watched the video and I just thought of how horrific it was. And then... probably 30 seconds later, it registered," he recalled.

#sunny

NUWAKOT, Nepal (AP) — Aid began to reach some survivors in Nepal on Friday following the catastrophic flash floods that swept through the mountainous border region between Nepal and China, as the full scope of the devastation continued to emerge and survivors sought shelter at makeshift army relief centers.
Children who have been separated from their families are being given shelter as attempts are made to reunite them with families.
The U.N.'s agency for children said at least 17,000 children are in urgent need of humanitarian ****** istance, while 18 schools have been destroyed and another 20 damaged.
The International Red Cross estimates that at least 93,000 people have been affected and are in "great need."
Rescuers worked through mud and debris on Friday in areas devastated by a catastrophic flash flood along the mountainous border between Nepal and China.

#catastrophic #border

By Gopal Sharma, Sahana Bajracharya, Saurabh Sharma and Liz Lee
NUWAKOT, Nepal, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Nepal and China resumed rescue operations in the flood-hit Himalayas on Friday, with a Chinese rescue team reaching the all-but-obliterated Gyirong border crossing complex for the first time and finding "nothing but ruins."
A glacier collapse on Wednesday unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems, killing at least 579 people in Nepal ‌and seven in China's Tibet.
The number of missing in Nepal has nearly doubled to 1,924, the country's disaster authority said on Friday. At least 558 were missing in Tibet's Gyirong County, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said on Thursday. ‌Of those missing in the disaster, at least 540 are foreigners, many of them Hindu pilgrims from India.
Surveillance camera footage from the worst-hit Gyirong border crossing complex showed huge torrents of water and debris engulfing buildings and people trying to flee.

#missing #sharma #crossing

Bengaluru: While the Indian cricket team made its Asian Games debut in Hangzhou in 2023, its first appearance at a multi-sport event came at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. In Kuala Lumpur, a star-studded side featuring Sachin Tendulkar, Anil ***** ble, VVS Laxman and Harbhajan Singh bowed out in the league phase. Twenty-five years later, Laxman returned to the multi-sport arena, this time as coach, guiding India to gold in Hangzhou.

Now, as the Shreyas Iyer-led Indian team prepares to defend its ***** le at Korogi Athletic Park in Aichi Prefecture, ***** an beginning with the quarterfinals on Sept 28, Laxman spoke exclusively to TOI of the unique appeal of multi-sport events, India's Asian Games campaign and the experience of being part of the cricket team's journey from its first CWG appearance to maiden Asian Games gold.

"My first experience of a multi-discipline event was at the 1998 Commonwealth Games. The whole experience of being part of the Indian contingent feels really great, and that kind of experience every young cricketer should get. It's great that I've had that opportunity both as a player and coach," said the head of cricket at the BCCI Centre of Excellence.

Recalling the Hangzhou experience, the former batting great said, "Obviously, it's not like your mainstream cricket series or tournaments that we've been part of since we started playing for the country. The Asian Games was a great experience and exposure because not often do we get to visit the Games village, meet a sportsperson from other disciplines, interact with them, see how they train and prepare. A group of us went to support the Indian badminton team, which was fantastic."

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are the seeded teams making the quarterfinals directly, with Afghanistan, ***** an, Nepal, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Oman fighting for the other four knockout berths.

While India will start favourites, they can ill afford to take the other teams lightly, with Nepal giving them a run for their medal in the previous edition before India won by 23 runs to make the semifinals.

India will play a match against ***** an and train in Tokyo for three days before heading to the host city. Laxman pointed to the match against Nepal and said, "One thing which we have learnt playing the game is never underestimate your opponent."

Beyond the game, Laxman believes it is about knowledge sharing.

"Given the experience and the exposure the Indian cricketers have, at the end of the match it's also about sharing that experience with players from other countries. After Nepal ran us close in the previous edition of the Asian Games, their coach invited me to talk to the team, which was an opportunity to share knowledge. It's not just me, but that's the way the entire group of players will approach the experience," Laxman stated.

#experience #nepal #hangzhou

The mountain range along the Nepal-China border has its dangers, most recently seen this week in the flash floods spurred by a glacier collapse that have killed hundreds and brought a wide swath of destruction.
The mountains are also a draw — home to millions of people with generations of connection to their environment, as well as many visitors who come to trek up some of the world's highest peaks or visit religious sites.
That has become clear in the aftermath of the floods, with people from at least 30 countries joining the hundreds of the region's residents among the missing.
People in that region of Asia have been traversing the mountains for centuries, such as traders moving their goods along a part of the route system known as the Great Silk Road.
Certain ethnic groups like the Sherpas in Nepal developed an expertise in mountaineering. In the mid-20th century, when the modern-day nation started welcoming in foreigners and tourism, Nepalis were tapped for their knowledge and guidance by explorers from elsewhere looking to make the climbs.

#floods #great #silk

On August 21, 2026, Bloomberg reported that Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT) will accept Apple Pay and Google Pay across all its U.S. stores and Sam's Club locations by the end of 2026, ending a years-long holdout. The rollout begins August 24 at select locations, with fuel stations gaining the capability by mid-2027.
Walmart had previously relied on its own proprietary Walmart Pay system, preferring QR-code technology that gave it more control over transaction data, rather than supporting near-field communication wallets like Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s Apple Pay. Customers will be able to tap contactless cards, phones, or smartwatches at checkout and add Walmart, Sam's Club, or OnePay cards to their digital wallets.
For Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), this closes one of the last major gaps in Apple Pay's retail coverage. More than 90% of U.S. retailers already accept Apple Pay, and the service holds roughly 92% market share among U.S. mobile wallets, according to Capital One data. Adding the nation's largest retailer removes one of the most visible remaining holdouts. It reinforces Apple Pay's position as the default mobile wallet at checkout.
Apple Pay's user base gives this rollout real reach from day one: Capital One estimates Apple Pay usership is on pace to grow from 70 million to more than 84 million users over the next four years. Walmart Inc. (NASDAQ:WMT)'s enormous foot traffic with an existing and growing user base gives Apple immediate transaction volume without needing to win over new wallet users.
Walmart is fixing something that annoyed shoppers, but they aren't giving up on their own payment tools. Walmart wants customers to have a choice in how they pay, and Tap to Pay adds to, rather than replaces, cash, credit cards, and Walmart Pay. Reducing checkout friction and consumer complaints matters more now that agentic and NFC payments have become standard shopping behavior.

#cards #aapl

The State Department tells NBC News that 90 Americans are among the hundreds still missing after deadly floods along the Nepal/China border. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports.

#China #frayer

A video taken after flash flooding on the border between Nepal and China shows mudslides enveloping multiple buildings as people fled in Gyirong, Tibet, near China's border with Nepal.
The mudslides followed a 4.4-magnitude earthquake which occurred just seven minutes before video captured people sprinting away from the disaster, according to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).
Shishir Khanal, Nepal's foreign minister, also suggested that earthquakes could be the cause in remarks to the country's parliament, according to Reuters.
Colombia Building Collapses On Camera As Earthquake Brings Death, Destruction
Authorities believe the earthquake caused an ice-rock avalanche that flowed into the Lhende Khola River in Nepal, according to Reuters.

#border #mudslides #people #tibet

By Sarita Chaganti Singh and Aftab Ahmed
NEW DELHI, Aug 26 (Reuters) - A deadly flash flood near Nepal's border with Tibet on Wednesday may have been triggered when the lower part of a glacier broke off and crashed on to the ‌valley floor hundreds of metres below, experts said citing satellite imagery from Planet Labs.
It was not clear what caused the glacier to ‌collapse, but Nepali officials have pointed to an earthquake in the region minutes earlier as a possibility.
Authorities on both sides fear the total number of casualties will be far higher than the nearly 100 bodies so far recovered. More than 300 travellers were missing, Nepal's government has said.
Before-and-after satellite imagery of the region from Planet Labs, reviewed by Reuters, showed lush green mountainside now buried under brown debris and sediment.

#reuters #region #sarita

Aug 26 (Reuters) - A massive flash flood killed at least nine people on Wednesday in the Himalayan border areas of ‌Nepal and adjoining Tibet, washing away villages, damaging roads, ‌bridges and power projects, with authorities fearing more casualties.
Here are some of the biggest disasters in the Himalayas over the last dozen years, which some ***** ysts have blamed on climate change and widespread development.
AUGUST 2025
Four die, with dozens missing, in sudden flooding and landslides in the Indian state of ‌Uttarakhand.
SEPTEMBER 2024

#himalayan #tibet #here #Indian

The National ***** ociation of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) in the US has named the recipients of its 2026 Accounting Education Research Grants.
The ***** ociation backed three projects that focus on AI in auditing and the effects of private equity investment in accounting practices.
From Virginia Commonwealth University, Aarati Nepal and Lindsay Andiola received a $6,770 grant for their project ***** led 'Audit Client Inquiry: The Effects of Generative AI and Auditor Rank on the Client's Persuasive Communication'.
Their study will look at how generative AI changes communication between audit clients and auditors.
The findings are intended to help companies strengthen auditor professional scepticism and improve training and review practices.

#accounting #effects #auditor #communication

WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration improperly terminated billions of dollars in funds to boost clean energy projects, handing a win to a coalition of nonprofits picked to run the Biden-era effort.
Climate United Fund and other nonprofits won't have access to their funds immediately as the decision will be put on hold for several days giving the Environmental Protection Agency time to ask the Supreme Court to step in.
The judgement by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is a loss for the Trump administration in one of its earliest efforts to dismantle President Joe Biden's campaign to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gases. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, commonly referred to as a "green bank," is a $20 billion congressionally authorized program that provided money to nonprofits that would then make loans and invest in small energy projects, energy-efficient buildings and transportation.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin accused Climate United Fund and other nonprofits picked to run the green bank of mismanagement and potential fraud. He froze billions that had been placed in a Citibank account for the program and then terminated their grants. The groups disputed any wrongdoing and sued, arguing the Trump administration broke the law and violated the Constitution by not spending money authorized by Congress.
"Despite efforts to harm the awardees with false allegations and misinformation, there remains no legal basis for terminating our grant award and clawing back funds that were already disbursed in our bank accounts," Climate United said in a statement.

#fund #administration #energy

The body of renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been recovered on Broad Peak in Pakistan, rescuers have said.
The Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Sunday that he was found about 5,700m up the mountain, where three further bodies have been sighted although their identities have not been confirmed.
The 43-year-old's death was announced on Saturday by his company, Elite Expeditions, which said he was among 10 people were killed in the avalanche. The Prince of Wales was among those to pay tribute.
Purja, who was born in Nepal and later served in the British Army, was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.
The Alpine Club said a ground team would take the recovered bodies to a ****** anese camp.

#club

The body of renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been recovered on Broad Peak in Pakistan, rescuers have said.
The Alpine Club of Pakistan said on Sunday that he was found about 5,700m up the mountain, where three further bodies have been sighted although their identities have not been confirmed.
The 43-year-old's death was announced on Saturday by his company, Elite Expeditions, which said he was among 10 people were killed in the avalanche. The Prince of Wales was among those to pay tribute.
Purja, who was born in Nepal and later served in the British Army, was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.
The Alpine Club said a ground team would take the recovered bodies to a ***** anese camp.

#british #alpine #nepali

Renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 people killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan, his company has said.
Elite Expeditions said it confirmed with "profound sadness and immense heartbreak" that Purja, 43, had died in Thursday's avalanche. His brother Kamal later wrote: "We will miss you every single day".
Purja, who was born in Nepal and later served in the British army, was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months in 2019.
Pakistani officials earlier said the bodies of three climbers from his expedition - American Mallory Geis, Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy from Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung from Nepal - had been recovered.
Purja's death was also confirmed by Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah, who said that "the tragic death of six Nepalese and four other foreign climbers, including world record holder Nirmal Purja, in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan, has shocked us".

#nirmal #Pakistan #confirmed #death

By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - The former JPMorgan Chase banker whose lurid ****** ual harassment lawsuit went viral added new claims and defendants on Monday, saying the largest U.S. bank's acceptance of racism and ****** ual coercion irreparably destroyed his ‌career.
Chirayu Rana said racism was ingrained in the culture of his otherwise all-white leveraged finance team, where his South Asian heritage "became ‌the punchline for a stream of degrading jokes," including calling him a "monkey" and "brown boy."
JPMorgan has said it believed Rana's allegations were meritless. Neither the bank nor its lawyers had an immediate comment.
In an 82-page complaint, Rana, who is of Nepali descent, added allegations that colleagues suggested he transact in rupees, and one texted that he should "run before we call ICEE {sic} on your family," referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

#rana #allegations

By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK, July 27 (Reuters) - The former JPMorgan Chase banker whose lurid **** ual harassment lawsuit went viral added new claims and defendants on Monday, saying the largest U.S. bank's acceptance of racism and **** ual coercion irreparably destroyed his ‌career.
Chirayu Rana said racism was ingrained in the culture of his otherwise all-white leveraged finance team, where his South Asian heritage "became ‌the punchline for a stream of degrading jokes," including calling him a "monkey" and "brown boy."
JPMorgan has said it believed Rana's allegations were meritless. Neither the bank nor its lawyers had an immediate comment.
In an 82-page complaint, Rana, who is of Nepali descent, added allegations that colleagues suggested he transact in rupees, and one texted that he should "run before we call ICEE {sic} on your family," referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

#jpmorgan #jonathan

The schedule for the cricket events at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, **** an, has been announced, with defending champions India receiving direct entry into the quarter-finals in both the men's and women's T20 tournaments.

Cricket will be played in the T20 format and will have full international status. The women's competition will run from September 17 to 22, while the men's tournament will take place from September 24 to October 1 at Korogi Athletic Park in Aichi Prefecture.

India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have all been seeded into the men's quarter-finals based on their rankings. The remaining four quarter-final spots will be decided through a preliminary stage featuring six teams split into two groups.

Group A includes Afghanistan, **** an and Nepal, while Group B features Hong Kong China, Malaysia and Oman.

The top two teams from each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. Since India and Pakistan are on opposite sides of the draw, the two rivals can only meet if both reach the semi-finals or the final.

India will face one of the teams that qualify from the preliminary round in the quarter-finals.
— AsianGamesOCA (AsianGamesOCA)
India's women's team will start its **** le defence against hosts **** an in the quarter-finals. If India win, they will face either Bangladesh or China in the semi-finals.

The other quarter-final matches will see Sri Lanka take on Malaysia, while Pakistan will play Thailand. India will be aiming to retain the gold medals won in both the men's and women's competitions at the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023.

#Japan #Pakistan #asian

HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) — She paces the side of the darkened highway in central Nepal, just enough light from the trucks roaring past to illuminate her painted face to the men rolling in on rickshaws and motorbikes. She knows that every stranger who pays for her body could end her life. But she also knows their money is the only thing preventing her death.
This spot, littered in condom wrappers and fringed by jungle, is familiar to her. Rubi Lama once came here not as a **** worker, but as an aid worker who helped **** workers.
For nine years, Lama — who is transgender — had devoted her life to conducting HIV outreach in Nepal's marginalized communities, including the LGBTQ+ **** workers who wait by this highway each night. But after the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, Lama and more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide found themselves out of a job.
Much has been written about the devastating impacts the U.S. foreign aid cuts have had on the millions of people the funding once helped. Far less is known about the impacts on the helpers themselves.
In impoverished Nepal, where a conservative culture leaves openly transgender people with few legal job options, the impact on aid workers' lives was particularly crushing. Starving and scared, Lama and around 100 other LGBTQ+ aid workers left jobless by the funding cuts have turned to **** work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.

#nepal #once