India stares at summer water crisis as reservoir levels slide
New Delhi Reuters India’s main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this summer. In major centres such as India’s ‘Silicon Valley’ Bengaluru, home to firms like Google, water supply is already being curtailed. Residents get their containers filled […]
Heightened vulnerability: South Asia’s poorest city dwellers bear brunt of worsening floods
ATHAR PARVAIZ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on fears marginalised city dwellers across South Asia face even harsher threats ahead as rains becomes more erratic and intense…
Pakistan looks “like a sea” after floods, PM says, as 18 more die
Sehwan, PakistanReuters Parts of Pakistan seemed “like a sea”, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343. A woman and children walk as they […]
Facial recognition push at India airports raises privacy concerns
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation The launch of facial recognition technology at two Indian airports and plans to place it in police stations have stoked fears over privacy and increased surveillance among human rights groups in the country. The “paperless biometric technology” launched in Bengaluru airport last week identifies passengers by their face, doing away with […]