AI may genuinely extend the horizon over which seasonal climate risk can be estimated. For communities across South Asia living under the influence of the monsoon, a longer view could mean the difference between a farmer adjusting her planting in time and a family receiving a flood warning too late to act.
The broader lesson for South Asia is equally important. Hilly regions cannot be developed simply by transferring lowland infrastructure models into mountainous terrain. Investment has to respond to local economic systems, geography and environmental risks.
The UN's 2026 report warns that “long-term water use has exceeded renewable inflows and safe depletion limits,” leaving some water supplies beyond recovery. As the world’s largest groundwater extractor, India sits at the centre of this reckoning
The larger economic choice for South Asia is therefore broader than whether to participate in carbon trading. The region can remain primarily a supplier of relatively inexpensive mitigation outcomes, or it can also develop the technology, professional capacity, financial products and verification systems that determine what those outcomes are worth.
A new report from the UN agency dedicated to ending HIV and AIDS ( UNAIDS) has shown that investing $29 billion a year to HIV response in low and middle income countries by 2025, will put the world back on track to eradicate the virus as a public health threat by 2030
India shipped out 200,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate UN blue berets serving in peacekeeping missions
The recently passed resolution on Sri Lanka that calls for reconciliation, justice, and accountability, is a “victory for victims” of the past crimes to help them, said Human Rights Watch (HRW)
India has supplied more vaccines against COVID-19 to people around the world than has vaccinated its own citizens, according to India's Deputy Permanent Representative K. Nagaraj Naidu
Praising women’s fundamental contributions to peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, the UN peacekeeping chief reiterated on Thursday that empowering women in the military remains a top priority, but to achieve this goal needs “all hands on deck”
Over 30 years after the invention of the world wide web, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has laid out the ways that young people and children should be treated in the digital world, and how their rights should be protected
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has started monitoring the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, a day after the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on the country
United Nations humanitarian personnel are on the ground evacuating tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees, after a devastating fire tore through the Kutupalong camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, the world’s largest refugee camp
A photo of Touheed Daudpota, a PIA crew member, went viral on social media where he was seen helping to soothe a crying baby on a flight from Karachi to Islamabad
Caught between political compulsions and diplomatic obligations, India abstained from voting on a UNHRC resolution critical of the Sri Lankan government and calls for the promotion of reconciliation, accountability, and human rights, along with some strong punitive measures
The Sri Lankan government has stepped up its diplomatic efforts and is reportedly reaching out to Muslim nations to ward off a critical resolution that would put to vote on Tuesday in the ongoing 46th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
The World Happiness Report 2021 released by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network ranked Pakistan higher than India
Pakistan has told the United Nations that the transborder management of water is the key to sustainable development goals
Forty nations, mostly European countries, have either become co-sponsors or additional sponsors of the pending UNHRC resolution over what it sees as deteriorating human rights conditions in Sri Lanka, reported The Daily Mirror
A delegation of the United Nations will visit Bhasan Char island- the new site that the Bangladesh government has developed for the relocation of around 100,000 Rohingya refugees- in Bangladesh for assessing the facilities there
