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    Dhaka’s Streets Transformed: Battery Rickshaws Surge Amid Regulatory Vacuum

    What started as an informal attempt to ease congestion and reduce the physical toll on pedal rickshaw pullers has now evolved into a dominant transport mode across Dhaka’s North and South city corporations.
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    COVID-19

    Violence, Unsafe Water ‘World’s Biggest Risks’, Says Global Survey

    World Risk Poll says that a third of the 125,000 people it surveyed across 121 countries said that they felt ‘less safe’. Globally, the...
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    Disaster Management

    Dams Have to Prepare Emergency Action Plans, Minister Tells Rajya Sabha

    The minister pointed out that the union government has constituted the national committee on dam safety to discharge functions to prevent dam failure related...
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    Accountability

    Pakistan’s Coal Miners Mourn For The Dead; Fight For The Living

    More workers have lost their lives in Pakistan’s deadly coal mines this month. 18 miners have been killed at work in May alone, according...
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    COVID-19

    Six in seven people experience ‘high levels of insecurity’ – Why?

    The latest report from the UNDP, Why we don't feel safe, says that people all over the world — including in the wealthiest countries...
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    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.
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    Animals and wildlife

    Bangladesh’s Vanishing Tigers: 189 Left in the Race Against Extinction

    Worldwide, stronger protection has helped push tiger numbers up from a low of roughly 3,200 in 2010 to around 5,800 today.
    El Nino

    NABARD Survey Flags Rural Slowdown as Income Growth Hits Two-Year Low

    The July 2026 RECSS does not point to an immediate crisis, but it clearly signals that the rural recovery of the previous year has lost steam.

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    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.
    Animals and wildlife

    Bangladesh’s Vanishing Tigers: 189 Left in the Race Against Extinction

    Worldwide, stronger protection has helped push tiger numbers up from a low of roughly 3,200 in 2010 to around 5,800 today.
    Animals and wildlife

    Bangladesh’s Vanishing Tigers: 189 Left in the Race Against Extinction

    Worldwide, stronger protection has helped push tiger numbers up from a low of roughly 3,200 in 2010 to around 5,800 today.
    Child mortality

    RFK Jr. Urges Measles Vaccination in Stark Reversal as US Cases Hit 35-Year High

    With the school year approaching and cases still rising, health officials stress that raising vaccination rates remains the most effective way to stop further spread.
    Children

    Tides of Change: Maldives Faces Its Demographic Reckoning

    Preparing health and social-protection systems for a larger elderly population is no longer a distant concern.

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