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Bhutan’s Climate Change Response: Key Drivers and Strategic Initiatives

Introduction Climate change has become one of the most severe and complex challenges in the 21st century. While the world’s poorest countries bear little or no responsibility for climate change, they face grave social and economic consequences. [1...

August 7 , 2024

Neighborhood News Digest- 07 August 2024

Afghanistan Ministry Disputes IOM Migration Figures, Highlights High Return Rates- Tolo News The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has rejected the latest report by the International Organization of Migration (IOM), saying that since the Islamic...

August 7 , 2024

India’s Climate Policy

The 1990s were a time of global change. The fall of the Berlin Wall led to Francis Fukuyama arguing in The End of History and the Last Man that western liberal democracy had triumphed and there was to be nothing thereafter in the developmental...

July 15 , 2024

Building Capabilities and Capacities for India - Policy suggestions for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government 2024

The Vivekananda International Foundation has published a report Building Capabilities and Capacities for India: Policy Suggestions for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government 2024. It makes several policy suggestions in areas ranging from...

July 11 , 2024

Building Capabilities and Capacities for India - Policy suggestions for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government 2024

July 4 , 2024

Eurasia News Digest (1-15 June, 2024)

Russia & Central Asia Uzbekistan's Tashkent to hold 19th SCO Forum on June 5 The XIX meeting of the Forum of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will take place in Uzbekistan's Tashkent on June 5, chaired by the Uzbek side and organized...

July 3 , 2024

Bangladesh at the Crossroads: Confronting the Realities of Climate Change

Introduction The consequences of climate change are felt globally affecting millions of lives and threatening the future development of states, with developing countries facing the extreme implications/vulnerabilities. Bangladesh, a country...

June 27 , 2024

Neighborhood News Digest - 20 June 2024

Afghanistan Islamic Emirate Reacts to UN Rapporteur's Remarks - Tolo News Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, has described the report by UN Rapporteur Richard Bennett and representatives of some countries in the United...

June 20 , 2024

Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR): India’s Journey from 2014 to 2024

Introduction The ten-year period from 2014 to 2024 has witnessed numerous humanitarian crises. The crises were triggered by, among other things, armed conflicts (Israel-Hamas war, Syrian civil war, Libyan civil war, Yemeni civil war, Tigray war,...

June 10 , 2024

Neighbourhood News Digest – 05 June 2024

Afghanistan UN Security Council to Meet on Afghanistan in June – Tolo News The United Nations Security Council is set to meet on the situation in Afghanistan later this month. Although the exact date of this meeting has not been specified, the...

June 5 , 2024