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    Disaster Management

    Disease Sweeping Through Gaza’s Refugee Camps

    85 per cent of people in Gaza are now displaced and doctors are reporting hundreds of thousands of cases of Hepatitis A. Concerns are...
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    Health

    Nanotech Tool May Help Detect Diseases Using A Smartphone

    A nanotech imaging device, tiny enough to fit on a smartphone camera lens, has the potential to make the diagnosis of certain diseases accessible...
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    News

    Affordable analysis of genomes ‘key to tackling diseases’

    Affordable genomic analysis is key to tackling infectious diseases. A project is aiding resource-limited scientists to analyse the genetic material of deadly microbes, enabling...
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    Children

    Leprosy in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal

    Cases of leprosy detected among migrant labourers returning from their employment abroad has reignited the conversation on the much-stigmatised disease. Doctors in Jhapa, Nepal have...
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    Children

    Child asthma cases linked to cities’ dirty air

    A study published in this month's issue of The Lancet Planertary Health says that nitrogen dioxide pollution is the cause of 1.85 million child asthma...
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    Children

    Measles progress in reverse as 22 million miss vaccines

    The World Health Organisation says that the fight against measles has been ‘set back a decade’ as vaccinations and disease surveillance have been heavily...
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    Climate change

    India Among Six Most Affected Countries by Extreme Weather Events

    The long-term assessment of the CRI 2025, covering data from 1993 to 2022, places India as the sixth most affected country globally due to extreme weather events. Over this period, India reported a staggering loss of 80,000 lives and economic damages amounting to $200 billion.
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    Accountability

    Calculated, Coordinated Crackdown – UN Report Uncovers Systematic Repression in Bangladesh Protests

    The mass mobilisation saw participation from people across different backgrounds, including women and children. Faced with this growing opposition, the former government resorted to increasingly violent means to maintain power. The UN report describes a deliberate strategy orchestrated at the highest levels of the former administration.
    Accountability

    Adani Green Energy Withdraws from $1 Billion Wind Power Project in Sri Lanka

    There has been a raging debate in Sri Lanka on the deal, citing it as an expensive deal. The earlier government had agreed to purchase power from Adani’s 484-megawatt wind power project at a rate of 8.26 US cents per unit under a 20-year power purchase agreement.

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    Climate change

    India Among Six Most Affected Countries by Extreme Weather Events

    The long-term assessment of the CRI 2025, covering data from 1993 to 2022, places India as the sixth most affected country globally due to extreme weather events. Over this period, India reported a staggering loss of 80,000 lives and economic damages amounting to $200 billion.
    Accountability

    Calculated, Coordinated Crackdown – UN Report Uncovers Systematic Repression in Bangladesh Protests

    The mass mobilisation saw participation from people across different backgrounds, including women and children. Faced with this growing opposition, the former government resorted to increasingly violent means to maintain power. The UN report describes a deliberate strategy orchestrated at the highest levels of the former administration.
    Education policy

    World-Class Education Key to Making India a Developed Nation by 2047: NITI Aayog

    The report is based on extensive discussions with state government officials from over 20 states and union territories, vice-chancellors and senior academics from 50 SPUs, and chairpersons of several state higher education councils.
    Civil society

    Imperialism (Still) Rules

    The 1910s and 1920s debates between the Second and Third Internationals of Social Democrats and allied movements in Europe and beyond involved contrasting positions on WW1 and imperialism.
    Clean tech

    Closing in on an End to Plastic Pollution

    We need to think innovatively regarding chemicals of concern, taking inspiration from existing agreements that protect us from harmful chemicals.

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