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    Urgent Action Needed to Address South Asia’s Air Pollution Health Emergency: ICIMOD and HEI

    Leading regional and international public health and environmental scientists gathered in Kathmandu to push for progress in global pollution hotspots. India alone could save...
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    Animals and wildlife

    Sri Lanka Launches Island-Wide Elephant Census amid Conservation Efforts

    The census comes at a critical time as Sri Lanka grapples with an escalating human-elephant conflict. The encroachment of commercial and agricultural development into...
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    Agri-business

    Bold, New Chapter in India’s Vision for Agricultural and Economic Transformation: Narendra Modi

    In his address to the nation on the occasion of India's Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined a comprehensive vision for transforming India’s...
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    Climate change

    Global Rise in Heat Stress Threatens Workers’ Health and Safety, New ILO Report Warns

    In Chennai, a multi-component heat stress prevention plan was introduced at a brick kiln, including shaded work areas, improved sanitation, and electric vehicles to...
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    Disaster Management

    Modi on India’s Vision for 2047: A Commitment to Development, Inclusivity, and Innovation

    While ending his annual speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a mission to introduce one lakh young...
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    Climate change

    Yale Survey Reveals Diverse Climate Change Opinions Across India

    Levels of knowledge and perceptions vary significantly by region. Nationally, about 85 per cent of respondents are worried about severe heat waves and droughts,...
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    Clean tech

    With Fewer Than 100 Days to COP29, What’s on the Agenda?

    Creative solutions are needed, including from the private sector, to make Baku COP29 the 'finance COP', as it has been billed. Article 6 of...
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    Agriculture policy

    Small Farmers Feeling Climate Change Heat Find Little Support From the State

    About 15,000 cattle died due scorching heat mixed with high humidity in Sindh province, Pakistan. The extreme heat adversely affected the milk production of the...
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    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.
    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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    Nepal’s Twice-Displaced: Quake Survivors Face Flood Ruin a Decade On

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

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    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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    In the Rajya Sabha: ESG Standards for Coal Industry Transformation

    CIL's initiatives illustrate a comprehensive approach to ESG standards, integrating environmental, social, and governance objectives, the coal and mines minister said.
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    Pakistan Records Sharpest Quarterly Rise in Violence Since 2021 as Fatalities Surge 83%

    The data underscore a central reality of contemporary South Asia: insecurity in one corner of the region rarely remains contained.

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