World Tiger Day: The striped cats have gone extinct in 3 southeast Asian countries; here is why

Poaching and habitat loss largely responsible for the development according to experts  

Decline in adolescent pregnancies ‘alarmingly slow’ in developing countries: UN

Central & southern Asia has one of the highest likelihoods of rapid repeat pregnancies 

Asia Climate: India, China, Japan lose billions to extreme weather annually, says WMO report

India, China and Bangladesh recorded most of the disaster-related displacement recorded globally in 2020, according to State of the Climate in …

UNITED NATIONS

Bright spots in backyard: Now India’s neighbours do their bit to up tiger count

India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal hold 76% of world’s tigers, says new IUCN report

Countries voice 1.5°C challenges at 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum

Representatives from over 50 countries are participating in the three-day-long conference

Slums on rent

Dhaka has seen a sharp rise in privately owned slums. Are these a better alternative to 'squatter settlements' common in India?

Simply Put: Great GDP Race

The Caspian Sea is set to fall by 9 metres or more this century – an ecocide is imminent

Climate change is causing the sea to recede, leaving barren land in its wake

Book Excerpt: Forgotten Foods: Memories and Recipes from Muslim South Asia

In Forgotten Foods, historians, literary scholars, plant scientists, heritage practitioners, writers and chefs come together to document …

If this is emancipation

...critics of the government's recent draft on women's issues would rather not have it

SUBCONTINENTAL WOES

Continental hope

A new combustion technique will make two-stroke engines -Asia's bane - cleaner

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The poverty dilemma

Can Asia reduce poverty by half by 2015?

POPs culture

Apocalypse is dry now

A cow succumbs to the drought in Portugal

No 'kind' payment

Thailand bans, Indonesia holds back

Caught vulnerable

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F for forest and furniture

From the blurbs

Why is Telangana asking the Centre to procure its excess stock of parboiled rice?

The Telangana government is asking the Centre to buy more than 90 per cent of its stock of parboiled rice at Minimum Support Price, some of which …

China will allow couples to have three children

The new policy change will come with "supportive measures” including lower educational costs for families and step up tax and housing support