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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....
Afghanistan
New and Old Afghan Refugees Make the Best of Life in Neighbouring Pakistan
Pakistan is home to 1.3 million registered refugees and more than double this number of unregistered ones who have fled neighbouring Afghanistan. Most of...
Air
Dirty Air ‘Cuts South Asia Life Expectancy by Five Years’
Bangladesh emerges as the world’s most polluted country according to the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) released by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute....
Air
Indians Could Live Another Five Years If The Air Was Cleaner, Say Chicago Researchers
….. and residents of the state of Delhi could live another 10 years, according to the researchers who have worked out the Air Quality...
Accountability
Inflation Will Be SouthAsia’s Sore Point in FY 2022, says World Bank Global Economic Prospects Report
In the face of global stagflation, growth in SouthAsia is forecast to slow down to 6.8 and 5.8 per cent in 2022 and 2023,...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project are not uniformly distributed, as certain villages experience benefits while...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review of the air quality scenario in the National Capital Region...
Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart is No Education at All
By Yasmine Sherif
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have...
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Are Government Schemes Meaningful in the Absence of Land Rights?
It is evident that the effects of the project...
Sub-Committee for GRAP Directs Agencies to Take Dust Abatement Measures
The sub-committee for GRAP has undertaken a comprehensive review...
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