Melting of glaciers to cause flooding and water shortages for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream, report says.

Melting of glaciers to cause flooding and water shortages for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream, report says.
Prosecutors say huge amounts of money collected from hundreds of Nepalis to send them to the US as Bhutanese refugees.
South Asia’s only carbon-negative country is vulnerable to the effects of climate change which is recently speeding up.
Study says heatwaves in the region should be ‘rare’ but current level of global warming made them 30 times more likely.
The tiny Himalayan nation’s Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is competing for the Best International Feature Film award.
Himalayan kingdom that has recorded just four coronavirus deaths sees surge in infections linked to the Omicron variant.
Ban on entering Himalayan kingdom results in loss of livelihoods for hundreds of daily wage earners on the Indian side.
UNICEF hails mass drive as ‘arguably the fastest vaccination campaign to be executed during a pandemic’.
For months, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has been travelling by foot, car and horse to oversee pandemic measures.
The two Himalayan nations have been lashed by heavy rains in the last three days as the annual monsoon season begins.
Tiny Himalayan nation says 470,000 out of 770,000 people administered first shot of a two-dose vaccine donated by India.
Pandemic may have indirectly contributed to around 228,000 additional child deaths in 2020, UN report says.
The three are accused of plotting to overthrow country’s top military officer by involving him in a corruption scandal.
Agreement does not appear to be related to its budding ties under US-sponsored accords with four Arab countries.