Every year 43,000 people in Bangladesh die due to contaminated water and even with the progress that have been made to clean the water supply, there is no decline in the number of deaths in the past years. The corruption and the international neglect in the country is mostly to blame for the polluted water, and if the people don’t… Read more »
Indian police are investigating the death of the wife of government minister, whose body was discovered in a hotel room the day after she had made a series of dramatic claims that her husband was having an affair with a Pakistani journalist. Police said the body of Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of minister Shashi Tharoor, was found at the Leela… Read more »
Each year, 43,000 Bangladeshis die as a result of drinking arsenic-contaminated water, a figure which has not significantly altered since steps were taken to clean up Bangladesh’s water supply at the turn of the century. Corruption and international neglect are to blame for the fact 20 million people in Bangladesh are still drinking water laced with arsenic, more than a decade after the extent… Read more »
Few of us can forget the harrowing images that flooded the media in the weeks that followed 25 April 2015 – the day a devastating earthquake shook Nepal to its core. Shocking scenes of bodies being pulled from mountains of rubble and centuries’ old temples reduced to dust captured the world’s attention. The tremor, which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, was… Read more »
Severe flooding and landslides in Bangladesh, Nepal and India have prevented around 1.8 million children from attending schools across the region. At least 1,200 people have been killed in South Asia’s worst flooding in years, with more than 40 million affected. Thousands of schools are being used as emergency evacuation shelters and at least 18,000 have been damaged or destroyed by… Read more »