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Bangladesh’s power crisis is an echo of the 1943 Bengal famine
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoThe power blackout in Bangladesh last week points to how, after all these years, developing...
More than half of India's water bodies are private property
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoAround 55% of India’s water bodies are privately owned, with most lying in the states of West...
India has lost 70 million hectares of farmland since 2015
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoAfter a difficult two years of the covid-19 pandemic, Manjeet Singh was hopeful that 2022 would...
India and Bangladesh have agreed to share "a drop" of water, but an "ocean" awaits
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 2 years agoIndia and Bangladesh recently signed an agreement to share water from the Kushiara river, and water...
Myanmar raises death toll from Cyclone Mocha to 54, but full extent of damage still unknown
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoAt least 54 people were killed and more than 185,000 buildings damaged in Myanmar by a powerful...
India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation's worst rail disasters
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoRescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that...
With G20 event, India seeks to project normalcy in disputed Kashmir
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoAs India prepares to host a meeting of tourism officials from the Group of 20 in the disputed region...
Cyclone Mocha floods Myanmar port city, sparing major refugee camps
Reuters via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoDHAKA (Reuters) -Storm surges whipped up by a powerful cyclone moving inland from the Bay of Bengal...
A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.
Associated Press via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoThe wind had whipped the waves to nearly three times the woman's height when her panicked voice...
India needs to rethink the way it monitors air quality
Quartz via Yahoo! Philippines News· 1 year agoFor India, rising air pollution levels have always been a concern from local, national, and global...