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    New twist to Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombing case as former top investigator spills the beans

    In a new twist to the Easter Sunday bombing case, a former CID director told the Sri Lanka Supreme Court that the country’s top...
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    Nepal sees a hike in rights violations

    INSEC-Nepal has documented 6,285 victims of human rights violence and abuses in 2021. There were 5,163 cases of women and 560 cases of men...
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    Child Rights

    Child sex abuse in Madagascar ‘widespread and tolerated’

    Droughts and food scarcity is leading children to sell sex in Madagascar. Two deadly cyclones in recent weeks have heightened worries as successive drought...
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    Human rights

    Myanmar’s minefields continue to kill and maim

    Antipersonnel landmines continue to be produced in state-owned factories in Myanmar while resistance groups employ improvised landmines. Antipersonnel mine blasts claimed 88 lives in Myanmar...
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    Crime in Islamabad blamed on its weakest residents

    The police’s statement on zero robberies in Islamabad must be taken with a pinch of salt. After all, even a lawmaker's home robbed at...
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    Civil society

    Nation state or state-sponsored group behind ICRC cyber-attack?

    A month has passed since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000...
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    Human rights

    India opposes reference of workers’ law to Hague

    India, China, Russia, US are among 14 countries opposing ILO convention 87 on workers right to association being referred to the International Court of...
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: Rights experts decry ‘appalling’ culture of impunity around killing of journalists

    UN human rights experts point out that the authorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct an investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar...
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    Eight Tiger Cubs Signal New Hope for Breeding Beyond Ranthambore

    The story of Kailadevi fits into a larger narrative of recovery tempered by realism. India’s tiger numbers have risen, but space, prey and connectivity will decide whether that growth continues.
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    Toxic Rivers, Fractured Lands: How Myanmar’s Conflict Mining Poisons Borders and Futures

    Mining in Myanmar’s eastern borderlands has become a transboundary crisis. What was once framed as a potential engine for development now fuels armed conflict, weakens governance, and spreads toxic pollution through shared river systems into Thailand.
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    Nepal and Bhutan Push for Mountain Climate Agenda at COP31 After Deadly Himalayan Floods

    Nepal has already linked recovery needs to loss-and-damage mechanisms, submitting claims related to the disaster. Bhutan, which has long prioritised environmental conservation, brings complementary experience in balancing development with ecological limits.

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    Eight Tiger Cubs Signal New Hope for Breeding Beyond Ranthambore

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    Toxic Rivers, Fractured Lands: How Myanmar’s Conflict Mining Poisons Borders and Futures

    Mining in Myanmar’s eastern borderlands has become a transboundary crisis. What was once framed as a potential engine for development now fuels armed conflict, weakens governance, and spreads toxic pollution through shared river systems into Thailand.
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