The Toto community of North Bengal belongs to the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group and inhabits a small village on the Indo-Bhutan border. It is believed that only 1,763 Toto members are left in the world and most of them live in Totopara village in Alipurduar district. Totos claim their identity and their livelihoods are under serious threat.

हाल ही में भारत और भूटान ने बहुआयामी द्विपक्षीय संबंधों के अलग अलग पहलुओं पर चर्चा की और नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा, कृषि, युवाओं के आदान-प्रदान, पर्यावरण,वानिकी और पर्यटन जैसे क्षेत्रों में सहयोग को और बढ़ाने पर सहमति जताई।

Tourism is a significant contributor to global warming. While many tourist hotspots have managed to keep pollution and resource degradation within check, most are struggling and getting polluted and degraded

In a report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization, it is found that the agriculture sector continues to be the biggest employer of women in South Asia. It highlighted that when economies shrink, it is the women’s jobs that are lost first.

The traditional khal, a tribal bamboo flute from West Bengal, signifies celebration and pain, and has traditionally been essential to weddings, festivities and funerals in West Bengal’s ancient Rabha culture.

A chance encounter with a curry in Delhi led to Shashi Bhushan Tiwari setting up a mushroom cultivation enterprise in his village in Muzaffarpur that sells button mushrooms worth Rs 50 lakh per month, and provides employment to over 100 rural women.

Intense rainfall, frequent floods, forest fires and droughts triggered by climate change are claiming millions of lives every year. The South-East Asia Region, which is home to more than two billion people, is highly vulnerable to climate change. Read more on the five priority areas for action listed by the global public health body.