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    Climate change

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    Climate change

    Nepal’s Deadly Flash Floods: What Went Wrong?

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    Nepal’s Prime Minister Calls for National Unity as Flood Death Toll Rises to 224

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    Disaster Management

    Nepal Floods and Landslides Claim 132 Lives, Rescue Efforts Intensify

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    Rising Temperatures Devastate Agricultural Eden of India’s Kashmir Region

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    Disaster risk reduction

    India: Govt. Pushes for Unified Water Conservation Efforts

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    Indonesia Rejects National Disaster Status as Toxic Haze Blankets Southeast Asia

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    E-governance

    Sri Lanka’s Middle Class Shrinks as Nearly 400,000 Households Slide Down Income Ladder, Says Boston Consulting Group

    BCG says that policymakers and businesses alike will need strategies that address both the scale of the rural middle class and the constraints facing households that have slipped downward if the gains of recovery are to become more widely shared.

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    Indonesia Rejects National Disaster Status as Toxic Haze Blankets Southeast Asia

    ASEAN foreign ministers are expected to discuss the transboundary haze at an upcoming meeting. The episode highlights longstanding regional tensions over the annual haze, which has strained diplomatic relations in previous severe seasons such as 2015.
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