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Can Warangal’s GI-tagged Dhurries escape the march of mechanisation?
Economy

Can Warangal’s GI-tagged Dhurries escape the march of mechanisation?

Vikas Choudhary
1 min read
These quilts were prepared for hundreds of years with hand-operated looms, which are diminishing fast
Indian tunnel rescue team making progress at Chilime and Langtang hydropower sites.
Climate Change

Nepal floods expose climate finance delay: GCF took seven years to approve glacier-risk project while lenders backed hydropower in vulnerable basin

Jayanta Basu
7 min read
Campaigners say delay in approving Nepal’s $49.9 million glacier resilience proposal left high-risk communities waiting for protection, even as ADB, IFC, China’s Exim Bank and other lenders financed h ...
View of the Mocha port city on the Red Sea coast.
Economy

The Mocha monopoly: how Yemen’s dominance of the global coffee trade birthed the Houthi rebels

Ibrahim Al-Marashi
6 min read
How a vanished Yemeni coffee monopoly, a shift to water‑hungry qat and a parched countryside helped radicalise the north and reshape global shipping lanes
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