Tag:South Asia

South Asia’s lead crisis is not inevitable. Experience elsewhere demonstrates that decisive regulation, industrial formalisation and community-level interventions can sharply reduce exposure.

The visit underscores enduring people-to-people and institutional bonds while setting measurable economic targets.

For the international community, supporting South Asia’s efforts to build resilience is not only a humanitarian imperative but also a matter of global stability.

The World Bank currently projects a modest recovery to 3.9 per cent in FY2027-28 if reforms gather momentum.

For a country that once stood as a global example of rapid poverty reduction, the cost of inaction is measured not only in percentage points of GDP, but in the daily struggles of millions of families left without the support they need.

The bill’s first reading in Parliament marks only the start of a legislative process that will face intense domestic and international scrutiny. Civil-society organisations, legal professionals and minority communities are expected to press for substantial revisions.

Bhutan’s experience offers a cautionary tale for other countries experimenting with or contemplating strict tobacco controls.

The developments in Nepal illustrate a familiar tension across many democracies: the challenge of establishing effective self-regulation and accountability mechanisms without creating tools that could be used to constrain critical reporting.