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Physicians first relied on surrogate wombs to assist women who, for health reasons, could not bear children of their own. But healthy career women from Singapore and India, who did not want to take any time off from their work, have also turned to surrogates as well, reports Gagandeep Kaur in the Hindu Business Line. Many doctors reject such requests, but with the number of inquiries on the rise...

Protests and violent clashes are becoming common throughout India, as business and government leaders team up to select agricultural land for industrial projects. Most citizens rely on farming in the world’s largest democracy, and many question the transfers. “If violence escalates, the result may be the undermining of civil rights and of the very fabric of Indian democracy,” write analysts Joan...

With low-lying land nestled among a network of rivers, subject to the heavy storms and the floods of monsoon season, Bangladesh is most vulnerable to climate change. A centimeter rise in the sea level, considered inevitable by climate scientists, will wipe out the Char Bangla island of farmer Shahidul Mullah, writes Matthias Gebauer in “Der Spiegel.” Amid emerging reports that the pace of...