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    Environment

    Child mortality

    India Faces Every One of 17 Catastrophic Global Health Threats Identified by Landmark Lancet Commission

    The Commission stresses that these threats are not distant or abstract. Some already impose heavy burdens; others carry low-probability but catastrophic potential.
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    Clean tech

    India Turns Organic Waste into Clean Fuel, Power and Fertilizer under Swachh Bharat Mission

    India’s experience offers a transferable lesson: organic waste streams, when systematically collected and processed, can simultaneously advance sanitation, energy access, climate mitigation and rural-urban linkages.
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    Agriculture

    RBI Raises Key Interest Rate for First Time in Nearly Four Years as Inflation Risks Broaden

    The October policy reflects a careful recalibration: prioritising price stability without derailing an economy that continues to demonstrate resilience in the face of global headwinds.
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    Climate change

    Sri Lanka Spends Just 8% of Cyclone Ditwah Rebuild Funds While Posting Rare Budget Surplus

    The rare budget surplus is a notable achievement after years of crisis. Yet the slow conversion of reconstruction allocations into actual rebuilding underscores that fiscal numbers alone do not tell the full story of recovery.
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    Disaster Management

    Bridging Ethnic Knowledge and Institutions: India’s Missing Link in Disaster Risk Reduction

    India's next leap in disaster management should not simply be to predict disasters better. It should be to connect knowledge better, strengthen institutions and act earlier.
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    Climate change

    Nepal’s Twice-Displaced: Quake Survivors Face Flood Ruin a Decade On

    A decade after the earthquake, the flood has shown that unfinished reconstruction is not only an administrative failure – it is a life-and-death vulnerability in a warming mountain landscape.
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    Climate change

    India: Rural VB-G RAM G Expanded to 375 Works; To Prioritise Agriculture and Climate Resilience

    The evolution of this framework offers a significant case study in linking social protection with long-term rural transformation.
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    Climate change

    Nepal Disaster Panel Debates Official Name for Bhotekoshi Floods, Sidelines ‘Himalayan Tsunami’

    Scientists describe the event as a cascading Himalayan hazard in which glacial, geological and hydrological processes combined.
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    Accountability

    Secret Australian Inquiry Exposes SAS Command Failures and Toxic Culture in Afghanistan War

    The report underscores persistent questions about accountability for civilian harm. Related reporting on the region has highlighted ongoing challenges in post-conflict justice and the human costs of prolonged international military engagement.
    Climate change

    Cyclone Arnab Batters India’s East Coast, Leaving Trail of Floods and Crop Devastation

    While natural climate variability such as El Niño plays a role, the background warming linked to climate change adds to the heat available to these systems.
    Aid

    Bangladesh: Chandpur Fishers End Hilsa Ban in Debt, Urge Cash Support Beyond Rice Aid

    The challenge is ensuring that the burden of short-term sacrifice does not fall disproportionately on the poorest fishers.

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    Accountability

    Secret Australian Inquiry Exposes SAS Command Failures and Toxic Culture in Afghanistan War

    The report underscores persistent questions about accountability for civilian harm. Related reporting on the region has highlighted ongoing challenges in post-conflict justice and the human costs of prolonged international military engagement.
    Climate change

    Cyclone Arnab Batters India’s East Coast, Leaving Trail of Floods and Crop Devastation

    While natural climate variability such as El Niño plays a role, the background warming linked to climate change adds to the heat available to these systems.
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