Seasonal Water Resource on the Upper Indus Details
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Seasonally occurring fields of aufeis (icing) constitute an important resource for the water supply of the local population in the Upper Indus Basin.
Seasonally occurring fields of aufeis (icing) constitute an important resource for the water supply of the local population in the Upper Indus Basin. However, little research has been done on them so far. Geographers at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University have now examined the spreading of aufeis and, for the first time, created a full inventory of these aufeis fields. The more than 3,700 accumulations of laminated ice are important for these high mountain areas between South and Central Asia, particularly with respect to hydrology and climatology.
European Bangladesh Forum organises virtual conference on Bangabandhu’s philosophy & Vision
Sun Online Desk
24th December, 2020 01:44:00
European Bangladesh Forum (EBF), a Europe-based diaspora organisation organised a virtual conference on “Bangabandhu’s Political philosophy & Vision: Peace and Threats of Radicalization in Bangladesh and the Region on December 19.
The conference was scheduled to be organised at the Geneva Press Club in Geneva ON 19 March 2020, but due to Covid-19 it had to be postponed.
Speakers from across Europe addressed the virtual conference which was hosted by the London-based British Bangla News Channel and was live on its website and YouTube.
Speakers in the conference expressed their concern at the rise of radicalism again in the South Asia saying, ‘many in South Asia are fearing the rise of radicalism again. Pakistan’s ultra-nationalists in the military and their allies in the Taliban are finding their feet.’