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    COVID-19

    Health Inequities are Shortening Lives by Decades

    The report says that the COVID-19 pandemic is a profound global example of the inequitable health outcomes driven by upstream social determinants. From its outset, socio-economic inequality was a predictor of higher mortality.
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    Clean tech

    India Pioneers Emissions Market for Particulate Matter

    The trial in India’s industrial hub of Surat reduced particulate emissions by 20 to 30 per cent, with participating plants complying fully with environmental regulations.
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    Agri-technology

    New AI Framework Set to Revolutionise Smart Farming with Enhanced Efficiency and Data Security, says Study

    As smart farming technologies continue to mature, frameworks like this will be key to ensuring that agriculture not only meets the demands of a growing global population but does so in a way that is sustainable, efficient, and secure.
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    IPR and patent regime

    The UN Needs to do Much as Artificial Intelligence Expands

    Despite consistent AI governance around the world, the UN’s work on regulating AI adoption among member-states remains anticipatory in nature.
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    Global Governance

    $4 Trillion Funding Gap Threatens SDGs; Health Gains at Risk

    According to UN agencies, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are all interconnected, for instance progress on SDG 2 to end hunger is closely tied to advances in health and education.
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    Agriculture

    Indigenous Peoples Sidelined in Global Climate Fight, UN Warns

    From green energy projects imposed without consent to policy decisions made in rooms where Indigenous voices are absent, these communities are too often excluded from climate solutions, displaced by them, and denied the resources to lead the way.
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    Climate change

    Climate Groups Report 2025 Is Unlikely To Be Hotter Than 2024

    Beginning in December 2024 and ending in April 2025, La Niña is defined by the cooling of ocean surface temperatures, changes in wind and precipitation patterns, an increase in Atlantic hurricanes, drier conditions in the South, and wetter conditions in the Northwest.
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    Features

    Human Traffickers and Smugglers Now Adept at Exploiting Digital Platforms

    Traffickers use fake online job advertisements and social media posts to deceive vulnerable individuals into forced labour, sexual exploitation, and other abuses.
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    Facebook Lures: How Traffickers Trap Bangladeshis Online

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    Preventive Healthcare: Bridging the Last Mile in Tapukara

    A hospital bed or a health card is of limited use if people are unaware of it, or do not access it in time.
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    Bench Under Fire: Sri Lanka’s Retirement Age Row

    Sri Lanka’s NPP government pushes a constitutional amendment to raise apex court judges’ retirement ages by two years, citing...

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    Sri Lanka: President’s Japan Visit to Secure 963 Million Yen Grant for Dairy Sector Development

    Japan’s grant for dairy development is designed to empower smallholder farmers, who form the backbone of the country’s dairy production. The funding will go towards modernising farming practices, improving milk quality and safety, and introducing sustainable methods to make dairy farming more profitable and resilient.
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    Agriculture

    Climate Change Is Redrawing the Map of Agrobiodiversity and Forests in Anuppur

    The data collected from multiple panchayats in the region paints a sobering picture. In areas such as Dhangwan, Laharpur, and Boridand, over 40 per cent of farmers surveyed reported a drastic decrease in crop diversity in the past decade.
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    NHRC Must Recognise Impact of Heat as Violation of Fundamental Rights

    Extreme heat has become a growing public emergency, depriving people of basic necessities and threatening their right to live in a healthy, safe, and dignified environment.

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