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    Disaster Management

    UN Revises Pak Flood Appeal to US$ 816 Million to Avert ‘Second Wave of Death and Destruction’

    The United Nations has upscaled its humanitarian appeal for the flood affected people of Pakistan to US$ 816 million from previous US$ 160 million assistance,...
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    Bangladesh: Power Grid Breakdown Plunges Several Bangladeshi Cities into Darkness

    The power supply was restored across Bangladesh only after a seven hours of blackout following the national power grid failure on Tuesday. A grid failure...
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    Pak PM Sharif Delays Launch of Flood Relief Dashboard

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    Pakistan Floods Do Nothing to Dampen Climate Change

    The catchphrase ‘water is life’ took on a deeper meaning in 2022 as floods submerged two-thirds of Pakistan, affecting over 33 million people, displacing...
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    ‘Rethinking Tourism’ Must be Centred on People and Environment

    Tourism needs to be transformed as a means for equitable growth, where the unheard voices of vulnerable groups can be heard. People living in...
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    How to Make COP27 a Success

    From melting glaciers to a ‘monster’ monsoon, record-breaking floods have left a third of Pakistan currently under water and the climate catastrophe is altering...
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    PM CARES Board Meets – Ropes in Ratan Tata, Sudha Murthy, Among Others

    The Fund is brimming with a total corpus of Rs. 10990.17 crores – up from Rs. 3076.62 crores in 2020. Its big ticket initiatives...
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    Poor Hit Hardest by Pakistan’s Catastrophic Flood

    Official say that this year Sindh received at least five times more rain than the average monsoon. The total loss to infrastructure and economy...
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