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    Pakistan’s Transgender Legislation in the Line of Fire

    To rule out “real from fake” transgender people, Senator Mushtaq Ahmed’s bill has recommended constituting a gender reassignment medical board in every district, which...
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    Agri-technology

    Bangladesh’s rice farmers tap underground ‘reservoirs’

    Bangladesh farmers rely on drawing water from a natural underground water storage system that they call ‘Bangladesh water machine’. The pumped groundwater is replenished...
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    Climate change

    Pakistan’s People Victims of Calculus of Climate Injustice: António Guterres

    United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said at the United Nations General Assembly that a third of Pakistan had been deluged and that many island States...
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    Accountability

    UNDP Calls for Unfreezing Afghan Assets as Taliban Have Reversed Gains of Past Decade

    In its latest report on Afghanistan under Taliban rule, the UNDP says that ten years of Afghan economic growth have been reversed in just...
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    Disaster Management

    Death toll from avalanche in India’s Himalayan state climbs to 26

    Officials say the search is still on for the remaining three missing mountaineers still underway in Uttarakhand state. The death toll from an avalanche in...
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    Climate change

    ‘What happened in Pakistan will not stay in Pakistan’, PM Shehbaz Sharif Warns

    Sharif had recently actively sought international help for the flood-hit country on international platforms, including at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan, in...
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    Agri-business

    Nutrition Smart Agriculture: Decoding the Myth

    Orphan crops – like sorghum, jowar, barley, ragi and sweet potato, cowpea, cassava and moong bean to name a few, are back with a...
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    Finance and Economy

    Trade Growth to Slow Sharply in 2023 as Global Economy Faces Strong Headwinds

    The new WTO forecast estimates world GDP at market exchange rates will grow by 2.8 per cent in 2022 and 2.3 per cent in...
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    Bangladesh’s Rape Response System on Brink as 373 Crisis Workers Go Unpaid for Nine Months

    The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs continues to insist that recruitment will be completed “shortly.” Until then, 373 unpaid workers remain the thin line between Bangladesh’s formal commitment to protect survivors of rape and the practical reality of a system under severe strain.
    Civil society

    Channels of Courage: How Sri Lanka’s Newest Literary Anthology Is Amplifying Fresh Voices

    Channels 2026 does not claim to define the nation’s writing. Instead, it opens another channel for stories that might otherwise remain private.
    Disaster Management

    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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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh’s Rape Response System on Brink as 373 Crisis Workers Go Unpaid for Nine Months

    The Ministry of Women and Children Affairs continues to insist that recruitment will be completed “shortly.” Until then, 373 unpaid workers remain the thin line between Bangladesh’s formal commitment to protect survivors of rape and the practical reality of a system under severe strain.
    Civil society

    Channels of Courage: How Sri Lanka’s Newest Literary Anthology Is Amplifying Fresh Voices

    Channels 2026 does not claim to define the nation’s writing. Instead, it opens another channel for stories that might otherwise remain private.
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