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    Climate Change Is Taking a Major Toll on Agriculture. Here’s How to Support Farmers

    Smallholder farmers produce one-third of the world's food, and agriculture makes up every second livelihood in Bangladesh. But the country's agricultural sector has been...
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    Agri-business

    World Food Price Index Falls in December

    The United Nations Food Agency’s World Price Index ended last year about 10 per cent below its 2022 mark, with values in December also...
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    Agriculture policy

    What’s in Store for Indian Farmers After COP 28’s Conclusion in Dubai?

    During the 14-day period when COP-28 was being held in the opulent Dubai, more than 380 farmers are likely to have killed themselves in...
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    E-governance

    99.8 Per Cent Ration Cards Seeded with Aadhaar

    Due to Aadhaar seeding and installation of ePoS devices at the FPSs, at present, around 97 per cent of the transactions in the country...
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    Disaster Management

    Sri Lanka’s Vulnerable Forced to Risk “A Pathway To Destitution”, Says Red Cross Assessment

    The deepening economic crisis is forcing people to make heartbreaking choices between going hungry, buying life-saving medicine, or finding the money to send children...
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    Climate change

    Indian Village Unlocks Treasure of Organic, Indigenous Farming

    The village, with more than 250 households, identified six veteran and experienced farmers who were tasked with producing their indigenous seeds and saplings. These...
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    Bio-diversity

    Undersea survey reveals a cafeteria for Sharks, Tuna

    The survey team came across a natural mesh made of fossilised carbonate reefs that traps micro-nekton on their way to bottom of the sea,...
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    Agri-technology

    Bangladesh’s rice farmers tap underground ‘reservoirs’

    Bangladesh farmers rely on drawing water from a natural underground water storage system that they call ‘Bangladesh water machine’. The pumped groundwater is replenished...
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    UN Warns: Climate Change Could Force 40.5 Million South Asians from Their Homes by 2050

    For the international community, supporting South Asia’s efforts to build resilience is not only a humanitarian imperative but also a matter of global stability.
    E-governance

    Sri Lanka Ready for New IMF Growth Deal as Stability Takes Hold, Says President

    Dissanayake used the platform to outline a roadmap spanning rural development, infrastructure, energy, tourism and digital skills.
    Agriculture

    India’s Supreme Court Urged to Expedite Contempt Case Over Alleged GM Rice Releases

    The case raises wider questions about how rapidly advancing biotechnologies are governed in one of the world’s largest agricultural economies and food exporters.

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    Child Rights

    UN Warns: Climate Change Could Force 40.5 Million South Asians from Their Homes by 2050

    For the international community, supporting South Asia’s efforts to build resilience is not only a humanitarian imperative but also a matter of global stability.
    E-governance

    Sri Lanka Ready for New IMF Growth Deal as Stability Takes Hold, Says President

    Dissanayake used the platform to outline a roadmap spanning rural development, infrastructure, energy, tourism and digital skills.
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    Through EmpowHER Biz, WEP and New Shop aim to create a robust ecosystem that fosters women-led businesses and accelerates growth in the retail sector.
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    Clean tech

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    Climate change

    Climate Change Doubles Extreme Heat Days for Billions, Study Warns

    The study leverages tools like the Climate Shift Index to attribute temperature changes, providing a scientific basis for policy and public awareness.
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    E-governance

    Sri Lanka’s Middle Class Shrinks as Nearly 400,000 Households Slide Down Income Ladder, Says Boston Consulting Group

    BCG says that policymakers and businesses alike will need strategies that address both the scale of the rural middle class and the constraints facing households that have slipped downward if the gains of recovery are to become more widely shared.
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    Indonesia Rejects National Disaster Status as Toxic Haze Blankets Southeast Asia

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    El Nino

    India’s Wholesale Inflation Surges to 11.39% in September on Fuel and Food Price Pressures

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