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People cross the Chenab River after the flow of water was halted from a dam, at Akhnoor, on the outskirts of Jammu, India in May.

Resource conflicts

Can India withhold Pakistan’s water?

India’s suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty is not likely to cause its neighbour Pakistan much harm in the short term, but it sets a dangerous global precedent.

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by Imran Mukhtar

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Devastating fires destroyed shelters and property in Rohingya refugee camps near the Myanmar after this comment was finalised. Investigations are still ongoing.

Human rights

Refugee suffering in Bay of Bengal and Mediterranean

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by Ridwanul Hoque
by Hans Dembowski
Always too hot or too cold: provisional post-earthquake classroom.

School quality

Nepal’s deep educational divides

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by Abishek Thapa
Destitute woman sorting plastic waste on a Karachi street.

Health hazards

In Pakistan, toxins put the poor particularly at risk

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by Imran Mukhtar
Smog in Lahore in November 2019.

Environmental protection

Cleaner air for Punjab

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by Imran Mukhtar
Mumbai slum.

Urban lives

My family succeeded in leaving dismal informal housing

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Community health workers checking people’s temperature in view of Covid-19 threat in a Mumbai slum in October 2020.

Slum-dwellers

India’s commercial hub is a city of migrants

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The river Turag in March 2020.

Environmental protection

Nice try

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by Ridwanul Hoque
Putting on masks before going outside.

Ethnic minority

Safe so far

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by Boro Baski
Boro Baski
India’s workers would benefit from a law like China’s labour code: construction worker in Kolkata.

Political systems

Fighting poverty

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by Praveen Jha
By 2018, agriculture only accounted for a little more than a quarter of the labour force in China.

Asian giants

China is ahead of India

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by Praveen Jha