It has become a tradition in the Emirates to perform massive, expensive shows every time the Gregorian New Year is celebrated. In the large cities of the UAE, concerts, parades and shows with drones and fireworks are breaking records in terms of the money spent and the amount of fireworks used.

Turkey woke up to the first morning of the new year with the stream of price hikes. On the last day of the year, towards midnight, electricity, natural gas, fuel and bridge toll were increased at a very high rate. (Agencies)

The Khorog city court sentenced seven residents of the Yazgulyam jamoat of the Vanj region to different terms of imprisonment for extremism. Among them are three students from a local high school. According to Radio Ozodi, referring to a source in the court of the city of Khorog, the sentence to the residents of Yazgulyam was passed at the end of December 2021. "Four adults were sentenced to six years…

Khan’s new bill seeks to make the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) autonomous and has drawn widespread condemnation. The former finance minister, Miftah Ismail described the bill as converting the SBP into the “bank of IMF”. [aninews] Ismail also declared that the new measures would make the SBP more powerful than the parliament as “there will be no oversight of fiscal and monetary policy”. [thenews]