Rising violence and disappearances are leaving Bangladeshi parents increasingly worried about their children’s safety.
Sanjoy Kumar Barua
When children leave home, Bangladesh mothers wait in fear
The Bay of Bengal: A new geopolitical battleground
The Bay of Bengal is becoming a key arena of great-power competition involving India, China and Russia. For smaller nations,...
Anwar A. Khan
Protesting Meghalaya pig farmers demand loan waiver, stricter SOP implementation amid African Swine Fever crisis
Pig farmers in Meghalaya demand loan waivers, compensation and stricter livestock border controls as African Swine Fever causes devastating losses.
Rilinda Manih
East Jaintia Hills and the making of an ecological disaster
East Jaintia Hills faces an ecological disaster as mining, cement plants and limestone extraction threaten caves, water, forests and communities.
Rilinda Manih
Nepal’s flood survivors face a long wait to find the missing, and begin again
The mist that rolls down the Trishuli valley each morning no longer looks like weather to the flood victims camped...
Akhilesh Tripathi
Nepal’s rescuers pull two survivors from flooded tunnel after ten days
After ten days trapped inside a flooded hydropower tunnel, two workers were pulled out alive in a dramatic rescue in...
Akhilesh Tripathi
China’s colonial morality on display with its law on promoting ethnic unity and progress
China’s new Ethnic Unity Law deepens assimilation of Tibetans, Uyghurs and Mongolians, targeting their language, culture and identity.
Tenzin Sangmo
NEPAL FLOODS EXPLAINER
As theories swirl over what caused Nepal's devastating floods, former ICIMOD scientist Dr. Dhrupad Choudhury cuts through the noise to...
Bidhayak Das
Guwahati to London — A family waits as Rasuwa stays silent
A Guwahati family waits anxiously for news of Pankaj Naug, a British-Indian pilgrim missing since the devastating Rasuwa floods. His...
Bidhayak Das
Sixteen Minutes: What the Bhotekoshi flood reveals about the region’s unfinished early-warning problem
Nepal’s deadly flood highlights failures in cross-border warning systems, prompting calls for stronger Nepal-China-India cooperation and real-time disaster alerts.
Akhilesh Tripathi
From flash flood to full-scale response: How the Bhotekoshi crisis unfolded
A devastating Bhotekoshi flood at the Nepal–China border has left 165 bodies recovered, 826 people missing or out of contact,...
The Borderlens Desk
What the water left behind
No siren. No warning. Just a wall of water and rock, tearing down from the roof of the world. It...
The Borderlens Desk