-Down to Earth With sustainable development goals in place, increasing democratisation and connectivity of the world, ecologisation of politics and vice-versa will become the new norm Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai wrote: In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem so obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. Decreasing resource base and the struggle for control and power leads to politicising ecological issues...
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Lankans Flee To India Amid Country's Worst Economic Meltdown: 10 Points - Akhil Kumar
-NDTV.com Three elderly people have died waiting in queues to secure fuel since Saturday, police have said. New Delhi: As SRI Lanka faces its worst-ever economic crisis, with electricity blackouts and shortage of essential goods leading to massive protests, its nationals have started seeking refuge in India. Here's your 10-point cheatsheet to this big story: * The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday apprehended six SRI Lankan nationals including three children, all residents of Jaffna...
More »The pandemic’s hidden cost: Suicides among Indians who lost jobs and income -Tabassum Barnagarwala
-Scroll.in India saw an unprecendented economic upheaval in the last two years. With it came a mental health crisis – and a wave of suicides. Trigger warning: This article contains references to suicide and some people might find it disturbing. In December 2020, in response to the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai decided to set up a dedicated mental-health helpline for slum residents of...
More »Get these wrinkles out of the South Asian textile story -Syed Munir Khasru
-The Hindu Ensuring government support for financial incentives, upgrading technologies and reskilling labour are key challenges South Asia became a major player in the global textiles and clothing market with the onset of the third wave of global production. Bangladesh joined the league in the 1980s, owing to the outbreak of the civil war in SRI Lanka. Supportive industrial policy was an instrumental factor in the 1990s, with zero duty on raw...
More »Russia’s war in Ukraine is crushing SRI Lanka’s $81 billion economy -Anusha Ondaatjie
-ThePrint.in Hit by soaring oil import costs and a dip in tourism revenue, SRI Lanka is racing to avert a default amid dwindling forex holdings. Colombo: Russia’s war in Ukraine, which has caused a humanitarian crisis and convulsed global financial markets, is now threatening to crush an $81 billion economy more than 4,000 miles away in the Indian Ocean. Hit by soaring oil import costs and a dip in tourism revenue, SRI Lanka...
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