Scores of young men, aspiring to join the Indian armed forces, blocked railway tracks as they observed a nationwide shutdown on Monday against 'Agnipath', the government's new military recruitment scheme.Monsoon rains in low-lying Bangladesh and India's northeastern Assam have triggered catastrophic flooding, killing at least 54 people across both the South Asian nations, officials said.In the wake of a record hike in fuel prices, Pakistan's ousted premier Imran Khan has warned that inflation is set to rise further and the country is headed towards becoming the next Sri Lanka, which is suffering its worst economic crisis. A protest was recently held by locals in Pakistan-administered Kashmir to express anger over frequent load-shedding in the illegally-occupied region. Militant group Islamic State has claimed the attack on a Sikh temple in Afghanistan's capital Kabul over the past weekend that killed at least two people and injured seven. Sri Lankan authorities on Monday began talks with a team of the International Monetary Fund on a bailout programme as the island nation faces its worst economic crisis in seven decades, which has led to acute shortages of fuel and other essentials. : Members of the Hindu community in India's Jammu & Kashmir staged a demonstration outside the UN office on Monday on World Refugee Day in the wake of a recent spike in targeted killings of non-Muslims in the region by terrorists.
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