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How to Make COP27 a Success
From melting glaciers to a ‘monster’ monsoon, record-breaking floods have left a third of Pakistan currently under water and the climate catastrophe is altering...
Climate change
Every Minute Counts: Growing Community Ownership of Flood Early Warning Systems in Nepal
The Koshi River can be a bane during monsoons. Now, in a unique experiment in early warning from ICIMOD, an alarm system programmed to...
Climate change
Flooding in Pakistan Shows That Climate Adaptation Requires International Support and Regional Co-Operation
Despite the geopolitical tensions in the region, shared responses to humanitarian crises can be a mechanism to build mutual co-operation and trust.
By Zafar Adeel ...
Accountability
The Crisis for Sri Lankan Children Is a Cautionary Tale for SouthAsia
More reports are already emerging of an increase in abuse, exploitation and violence against children due to the mounting economic pressure. There are already...
Disaster Management
Hydropower and South Asia’s Energy Future: Three Key Issues to Ponder Upon
There are concerns that hydropower projects benefit cities and downstream populations more than the local people who bear the direct social and environmental costs....
Diversity
Lessons from a Life Well Lived
This is the last part of my series of columns about my father – M Rashad Mahmood – who was born in Bombay in...
Bangladesh
Hydropower Collaboration Offers High Prospects of Energy Security and Trade in the SouthAsian Subcontinent
The South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Integration programme prompted by USAID is geared towards regional energy integration and cross border energy trade in...
Bangladesh
Drug-Resistant Typhoid ‘Spreading Out of South Asia’
SouthAsia now generates extensively drug-resistant typhoid strains that are spreading to other parts of the world. The study involved whole-genome sequencing of 3,489 S....
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Non-communicable Diseases Emerge as ‘Top Killers Globally’ – WHO
Authors of the report say that every two seconds, one person under the age of 70 dies of a...
How to Make COP27 a Success
From melting glaciers to a ‘monster’ monsoon, record-breaking floods have left a third of Pakistan currently under water and...
Have MGNREGA Workers Become Bonded Labourers?
Millions of workers remain unpaid for their work for several months. Despite over Rs. 21,000 crores of pending wages,...
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Non-communicable Diseases Emerge as ‘Top Killers Globally’ – WHO
Authors of the report say that every two seconds,...
How to Make COP27 a Success
From melting glaciers to a ‘monster’ monsoon, record-breaking floods...
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