Emerging Economies Climate Report 2022
The report reveals that over half of companies in emerging economies have been impacted by extreme weather events over the last 12 months.The report shows that 58% of companies in Africa and South Asia
Drought
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Puppet power
Gyani Baba wise saint, literarily , a seven feet tall puppet with handle moustache, is up for a big task in Rajasthan s Ajmer district. He is teaching the importance of good governance and asking people to fight drought. Immensely popular, Gyani Baba has
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Caught napping, again
Retreating monsoon leaves trail of death and destruction across much of India
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Designer news
How media designs and packages water...
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Why is rain a tragedy for cities?
A few days ago, most of India reeled under drought. Cities thirsted for water. Karnataka s chief minister S M Krishna seeing water supply in his software capital reduced to once in three days
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Prescription for relief
Even as negotiations on the relaxation of international patent protection rules enshrined in the World Trade Organization (wto) remain deadlocked, the eu has adopted a law that will provide 76
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Balangir's distressed migrants
From a resource rich area to a metaphor for poverty, the Balangir district of Orissa has covered a long distance. Plausibly, it is this journey that is driving its inhabitants to go away from their roots a fact apparent during a public hearing on distr
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Too much soothsaying
How much rain?
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Right to food upheld
The Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to implement the famine code to tide over the crisis caused by the current drought. The code
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Afghanistan's parched wetlands
This war ravaged country is heading for a disaster
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A lesson not learnt
Five successive years of debilitating drought. It had rained for barely a few hours last year in the region of Rajasthan I was visiting. I expected wasted lands, desolation and nearly abandoned