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School roof collapse in India kills 4 children
Reuters, Published on 25/07/2025
» NEW DELHI — At least four children were killed and 17 injured in India's western state of Rajasthan after the roof of a school building collapsed on Friday, local media reported, with dozens still feared trapped under the rubble.
Sea of humanity at Kumbh Mela pilgrimage
AFP, Published on 14/01/2025
» PRAYAGRAJ, India - Millions of Hindu pilgrims are gathering in India to bathe in sacred waters for the six-week-long Kumbh Mela festival — from the very old to babies, cave-dwelling monks to science teachers.
Deepfakes deceive voters from India to Indonesia before polls
Reuters, Published on 03/01/2024
» LONDON - Divyendra Singh Jadoun was busy making artificial intelligence-based visual effects and voice clones for film and television in India, when he began getting calls from politicians: could he create AI videos, or deepfakes, for their election campaign?
Octogenarian architect aims to flood-proof Pakistan
AFP, Published on 20/05/2023
» TANDO ALLAHYAR, Pakistan: At 82 years old, architect Yasmeen Lari is forging the way in fortifying Pakistan's rural communities living on the frontline of climate change.
Power cuts, forest fires in South Asia heatwave
AFP, Published on 30/04/2022
» LAHORE (PAKISTAN) - Power outages compounded the misery of millions of people wilting in a heatwave across India and Pakistan on Friday, with experts blaming climate change for an early onset of roasting summer temperatures.
South Asia wilts in heat as Delhi rubbish dump burns
AFP, Published on 29/04/2022
» NEW DELHI - Millions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave Thursday across India and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit South Asia.
World faces growing threat of 'unbearable' heatwaves
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» LONDON - From Death Valley to the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent to sub-Saharan Africa, global warming has already made daily life unbearable for millions of people.
Lightning strike deaths surge in India
AFP, Published on 03/09/2021
» JAIPUR, India: Faizuddin is still traumatised from the lightning strike that killed his three friends as they took selfies atop a 400-year-old fort in India, where climate change is making lethal strikes more common.
India's poor can't afford to beat the heat
AFP, Published on 10/07/2021
» SRI GANGANAGAR (INDIA) - Beating the merciless heat is hard in the Indian desert city of Sri Ganganagar, a reality facing millions across the vast country as the climate changes in the coming decades.
Indian farmers block highways nationwide
Bloomberg and Reuters, Published on 06/02/2021
» Tens of thousands of protesting Indian farmers have blocked highways across the country in defiance of the government’s internet and phone blackout, facing off against a heavy security deployment stationed behind rows of razor wire and concrete blocks.