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    Taliban hold confidential talks for humanitarian aid in Geneva

    The Swiss foundation, Geneva Call, is hosting a restricted-access conference to find out how unimpeded humanitarian assistance can be delivered to the people of...

    WHO’s aid plea warns of risks from new variants

    Warning of the emergence of more dangerous variants of COVID-19 on the anvil, a press release pointed out the inequities in the access to...

    Forests for business?

    Environmentalists see the government applying two different standards on the issue of monetising forests and disturbing wildlife for industrialisation on the one hand, and...

    Half a million and counting: Minor irrigation water bodies in India

    The minister for jal shakti provided a list of tanks, reservoirs or ponds counted as part of an ongoing census from various states. India has...

    Bail for Lankan lawyer, “prisoner of conscience”

    The criminal investigation department of the Sri Lanka police had detained Hejaaz Hizbullah, an attorney-at-law under the island nation’s Prevention of Terrorism Act. Sri Lankan...

    Humanitarian agencies write to finance minister. Seek consultative process

    Sphere India has asked the finance minister to institutionalise disaster risk and climate change adaptation budgeting in the union budgets to mark the shift...

    Omicron sweeps across 57 countries: WHO

    The past week saw a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Americas and the South-East Asia Region, including India. However the...

    Preliminary questions Budget 2022 raises

    A zero allocation for the national programme on mid-day meals in schools is disturbing and the budget for the LPG connections for poor households...

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