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454EnvironmentHydropower Projects Ruining Lives In The Himalayas
The floods in Assam and Bihar and the cloudburst in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand have all once again underlined the risk of...
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674Books
Impact News India Exclusive : Book Extract , Kargil : The Untold Stories From The War By Rachna Bisht Rawat
Chapter 1 : Unbroken A young officer is tortured to death in enemy custody. His father vows to get the guilty punished....
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As Global Hunger Grows, Easy Solutions Disappear
Last week, alongside the High-level Political Forum (HLPF) which monitors the progress on the global Sustainable Development Goals, UN agencies released the...
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351Environment
G20 Stalls On Fossil Fuel Subsidies
As G20 countries met for the group’s annual summit in Osaka, the dirty secret was that the world’s leading economies were failing...
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318Environment
Nearly A Third Of India’s Land Needs Restoration
India has just declared that it will restore 21 million hectares of degraded land, including wasteland, forest and agricultural land. The government...
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757Environment
First Ever Global Scientific Eating Plan Forgets The World’s Poor
A team of 37 world-leading scientists from 16 countries have just released the world’s first ever scientific eating plan. The “planetary health...
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379Environment
Himalayan Hydro Developers Wilfully Ignore Climate Risks
With growing warnings of the cascading impacts of climate change in the Hindu Kush Himalayas, the region’s hydropower sector ought to take...
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Protests Bring CPEC’s Kashmir Dam To A Halt
The site of the 1,110 MW Kohala hydropower project in Kashmir lies forlorn and quiet without the usual humdrum noise of heavy...
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1.4KLifestyle & Fashion
Fashion’s New Address In Guwahati – Musings
The growing prevalence of multi-label stores are attracting the shoppers and designers alike as compared to individual designer outlets in the market....
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394Environment
Biodiversity Of Hindu Kush Himalayas Will Plummet By 2100
It’s not just the snow and ice that’s disappearing on the roof of the world. Animals and plant species, crop diversity and...
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![The vast majority of the hungry are still in Asia [image from: SOFI 2019 report]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/World-of-undernourishment-e1563868668355.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![The vast majority of the hungry are still in Asia [image from: SOFI 2019 report]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/World-of-undernourishment-e1563868668355.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
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![Degraded land, with parts restored by villagers working with the Watershed Organisation Trust [Image by: WOTR]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Land-restored-by-WOTR-1020x574-e1561625079663.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
![A local fish market at Koshi Barrage in eastern Nepal. Most of the fish in the market are from Koshi River [image by: Nabin Baral]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/world-poor-e1557224197675.jpg?resize=450%2C270&ssl=1)
![A local fish market at Koshi Barrage in eastern Nepal. Most of the fish in the market are from Koshi River [image by: Nabin Baral]](https://i0.wp.com/impactnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/world-poor-e1557224197675.jpg?resize=80%2C80&ssl=1)
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