Omair Ahmad

Jan 14, 2025 | eco-business.com | Omair Ahmad

There are no laws governing the humble electric rickshaw, or e-rickshaw, in Bangladesh. Yet, they are everywhere, and their presence has become highly contentious. E-rickshaws began appearing in the country in the late-2000s, when local innovators retrofitted conventional cycle rickshaws with imported Chinese electric motors and lead-acid batteries.

Nov 5, 2024 | thewire.in | Omair Ahmad

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Oct 16, 2024 | audiencereports.in | Omair Ahmad

This year, the entries for the five categories—Fiction, Non-fiction, Children’s, Translations, and Business and Management—opened on 18th March and saw hundreds of submissions from publishers around the country for books published in the English language in India from 1st March 2023 to 1st March 2024. The winners of the Jury Awards and the Popular Choice Awards in each category will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

Oct 9, 2024 | mediabrief.com | Omair Ahmad

This year, the entries for the five categories—Fiction, Non-fiction, Children’s, Translations, and Business and Management—opened on 18th March and saw hundreds of submissions from publishers around the country for books published in the English language in India from 1st March 2023 to 1st March 2024. The winners of the Jury Awards and the Popular Choice Awards in each category will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

Oct 4, 2024 | dialogue.earth | Omair Ahmad

When I landed in Kathmandu on 28 September, Nepal was experiencing its most intense rainfall in two decades. Landslides had severed roads from the city, bridges were overwhelmed and vehicles buried under the rubble. Over the next few days, news trickled in that over 200 hundred people had been killed. In many ways, Nepal is on the frontlines of the climate crisis in the Himalayas. Its mountainous landscape magnifies the disproportionate impact of shifting weather patterns.