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    India: First Carbon Credits Reach Over 2,500 Punjab and Haryana Paddy Farmers for Climate-Smart Practices

    As more credits from post-2022 cohorts move through the audit pipeline and the company scales toward its one-million-credit target.
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: Clock Ticking on Ganges Water Treaty as 2026 Deadline Looms

    Without renewed cooperation grounded in updated science, transparent data and mutual restraint, the Ganges risks becoming a source of friction rather than a shared lifeline. 
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    Corruption

    Sri Lanka Seeks India’s Backing in War on Indian Ocean Drug Trafficking

    The appeal came during a high-level meeting with visiting Indian Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh on 9 September 2026, the first such visit by an Indian defence minister in 38 years.
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    Bio-diversity

    Kerala Gifts 1,200 Saplings to Boost Maldives’ Five Million Tree Drive

    Climate change remains an existential concern for the Maldives. Rising sea levels, coastal erosion and the need for greater green cover make large-scale tree planting both a practical and a symbolic necessity.
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    Agriculture

    Government Targets Upgrade of 300 KVKs by March 2027, Incubation Centres in All by 2028

    The targets set at the September 2026 review meeting mark a concrete timeline for transforming these centres from traditional demonstration units into dynamic hubs of technology, skill and enterprise.
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    Accountability

    When the Mountains Speak

    Kashmir’s mountains have always spoken through their rivers, forests, glaciers and lakes. Perhaps this summer they are speaking more loudly than before. 
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    Civil society

    Women Arrive in Delhi to announce, “We are Still Cleaning Dry Latrines Today”

    Safai Karmachari Andolan declared the launch of a year-long campaign INDIA@80 to free India from the national shame of manual scavenging.
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    Civil society

    India Faces UN Scrutiny Over Discrimination as CERD Report Flags Grave Concerns

    The Committee’s report underscores a broader pattern in which exceptional measures and administrative practices risk normalising discrimination rather than eliminating it.
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    India: First Carbon Credits Reach Over 2,500 Punjab and Haryana Paddy Farmers for Climate-Smart Practices

    As more credits from post-2022 cohorts move through the audit pipeline and the company scales toward its one-million-credit target.
    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh: Clock Ticking on Ganges Water Treaty as 2026 Deadline Looms

    Without renewed cooperation grounded in updated science, transparent data and mutual restraint, the Ganges risks becoming a source of friction rather than a shared lifeline. 
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    Sri Lanka Urges End to Indefinite UN Human Rights Mandates at Geneva Council

    The discussion reflects deeper tensions between the imperative of accountability for past violations and the sovereign claim of states to lead their own reconciliation processes.

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    Bangladesh: Clock Ticking on Ganges Water Treaty as 2026 Deadline Looms

    Without renewed cooperation grounded in updated science, transparent data and mutual restraint, the Ganges risks becoming a source of friction rather than a shared lifeline. 
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