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The mountains of Jammu and Kashmir are in the throes of a crucial Lok Sabha election. Spread over five phases, these are the first major elections after the revocation of Article 370 in August 2019; the first major election after a controversial delimitation process in May 2022; the first ...

Source link www.rferl.org Heavy snowmelt and torrential rains have caused deadly floods around Pakistan's Peshawar and in Afghanistan's Farah Province. Dozens have died, crops were lost, and more than 2,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. The flooding follows an unusually mild winter. Source link Copyright ...

Source link www.rferl.org The death toll continued to rise in Afghanistan and Pakistan from heavy rains and flash flooding that claimed nearly 140 lives in four days. Source link Copyright (c) 2019. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut ...

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240229/antarcticas-doomsday-glacier-began-melting-earlier-than-previously-thought---study-1117050052.htmlAntarctica’s Doomsday Glacier Began Melting Earlier Than Previously Thought - StudyAntarctica’s Doomsday Glacier Began Melting Earlier Than Previously Thought - StudySputnik InternationalAccording to a new study, the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has been losing ice at an accelerating rate since the 1940s. Previously, scientists thought the glacier only ...

The fishing boats slowly pull into the bustling dock in northern Mumbai on India's west coast, carrying a fresh catch after spending hours at sea trying to net as many fish as possible. Those waiting on the shore look on anxiously. Members of Mumbai's Koli community, who have been fishing ...

The search is hampered by the collapse of the main highway linking Sikkim to the West Bengal state and Gangtok.The death toll has risen to at least 14 people after flooding in India’s northeastern state of Sikkim that came after heavy rainfall caused the glacial Lhonak lake to overflow. ...

NEW DELHI: At least 14 people were killed and 102, including 22 army personnel, were missing in northeast India on Thursday after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst its banks, triggering flash floods down a mountain valley, officials said. The disaster, which has affected the lives of ...

After 12 years of conflict, losing loved ones is a familiar woe. What we could not have imagined is the scale and speed of this disaster. Friends and family, children, and their parents all gone in one instance. And it’s now turning into a rolling emergency, with limited clean ...

Around 100,000 people have been evacuated in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province due to flooding, emergency services said on Wednesday. "We have rescued 100,000 people and transferred them to safer places," Punjab emergency services spokesperson Farooq Ahmad said. Rescue boats traveled from village to village over the past several days, ...

Nearly a year after Pakistan declared a state of emergency following catastrophic flooding, many areas remain underwater. As another rainy season approaches and heat waves roll in, mothers and children in Sindh and South Punjab are struggling to survive the impacts of an increasingly hostile climate.Young girls carry water ...