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    Sri Lankan Tea Workers’ Wage Crisis: Promises Fade as Exploitation Persists in 2025

    A production-based model, per September 2025 talks, could align incentives, but unions fear diluted guarantees. The government eyes hybrid funding, yet delays breed unrest.
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    Accountability

    UNAMA Sounds Alarm as Violence Risk for Afghan Women Surges 40 Per Cent

    The mission emphasised that “standing with Afghan women” requires more than symbolic gestures: it requires resources, policy pressure, and the international will to ensure that women in Afghanistan can live with dignity and safety.
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    Bangladesh

    Bangladesh’s Leaky School Pipeline: Fewer than Half Reach Class 10

    The rising child labour rate signals a regression: children are being diverted from education into work, simply because of economic precarity.
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    Agriculture

    PM Modi Releases 21st Instalment of PM-KISAN; Over ₹18,000 Crore Transferred to Nearly 9 Crore Farmers

    With the ₹18,000-crore payout for 9 crore farmers, the government reiterates its commitment to the farming community.
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    Finance and Economy

    Nepal Sees Remittance Boom: Inflows Cross ₹553 B in Q1, Monthly Record Tops ₹200 B

    There is concern that the “remittance economy” model could undermine long-term development if not paired with investment in productive sectors.
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    Children

    Sri Lanka enters a new demographic chapter as children decline and elders increase

    The latest nationwide survey reveals a seismic shift in the age profile of Sri Lanka, with the share of children shrinking and the elderly proportion growing – signalling a departure from decades of youthful-growth to one of rapid ageing and dependency pressures.
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    Housing, land and property rights

    India Gifts Mahatma Gandhi Model Village in Ampara, Sri Lanka

    Launched under a 2017 Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of India and Sri Lanka, the scheme envisages 600 houses – one “model village” of 24 homes per district across Sri Lanka.
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    Entrepreneurship

    India Must Accelerate Growth to Avert Jobs Trap, Warns Morgan Stanley

    According to the investment bank, India is on course to achieve average annual GDP growth of 6 to 6.5 per cent over the next decade – one of the fastest rates globally. However, this pace may not be enough to meet the employment aspirations of the country’s rapidly expanding working-age population, which will swell by nearly 100 million over the next ten years.
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