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Rishika Pardikar

@rishpardikar.bsky.social
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Environment and climate reporter covering science, law & policy | Drilled, Article-14, The Hindu, The Continent 📍Bengaluru, India

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crucial point on the importance of reducing vulnerability and building overall resilience rather than focussing merely on early warning systems. There are around 15,000 glaciers in the Himalaya. Monitoring them all for warning signs would be near-impossible eos.org/thelandslide...
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Natalie Jones @nataliejones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice to see some scrutiny of #COP31 hosts Australia and Turkiye on the fossil fuel issue -- via @rishpardikar.bsky.social www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...
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COP31 hosts Australia and Türkiye face the fossil-fuel question
There is likely to be pressure on the COP31 presidencies to include fossil fuel language as part of the agenda. The catastrophic floods in Nepal on August 26 and the damage they wrought are also set t...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Damning. www.equator.org/articles/bid...
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"It is almost impossible to overstate their desire to avoid responsibility." @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social to @shainin.bsky.social on his "incriminating account of America’s foreign policy establishment, even as Biden’s top staffers are busy whitewashing their reputations elsewhere in the media."
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Guilty Men • EQUATOR
A new book thoroughly documents America’s complicity in genocide
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At COP30, there was a push for a "fossil fuel roadmap" to enable a transition. The flood in Nepal is also set to add momentum to calls for mitigation & loss & damage finance. But the #COP31 presidencies neither list fossil fuels as a priority agenda nor loss & damage www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...
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COP31 hosts Australia and Türkiye face the fossil-fuel question
There is likely to be pressure on the COP31 presidencies to include fossil fuel language as part of the agenda. The catastrophic floods in Nepal on August 26 and the damage they wrought are also set t...
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Since Bangkok is currently experiencing internationally-reported flooding, may be worth to re-up my favorite book of 2025, which examines the changing nature of Bangkok's watery landscape and how its inhabitants relate to it
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
China imports some coal anyway. But of all the things the US could seek in bilateral negotiations at this moment, making coal a priority is... stupid. No amount of US government support can indefinitely sustain an industry whose long-term decline is well underway. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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US Says China to Buy 10 Million Tons of Coal in 2027 and 2028
China agreed to import at least 10 million metric tons of coal from the US next year and again in 2028, according to the White House, in a sign of progress in easing trade frictions.
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m only 3 chapters in since my preorder dropped while I was at a no-device conference but: no shock here that this is an absolute must-read
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So....there's a lot of tea spilled about a lot of media outlets' willingness to be tools of corporate propaganda in my book. In hindsight, I probably should NOT have been surprised that many of those same outlets declined to run op-eds pegged to the book. But I kinda was! What thin-skinned babies!
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Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wildfire smoke from Indonesia is spreading into Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, closing schools and cancelling outdoor activities as air pollution reaches hazardous levels. 📰➡️ healthpolicy-watch.news/indonesian-w... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @mparrington.bsky.social 📖 ⬇️ & 🔁🙏
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Indonesian Wildfires Cause Air Pollution Levels To Rise To Hazardous Levels In Southeast Asia - Health Policy Watch
Millions of people in Southeast Asia are currently exposed to hazardous levels of air pollution as the large-scale haze caused by Indonesian wildfires crosses
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Australia's energy mix is ~90% fossil fuels www.iea.org/countries/au...
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dr @dancalverley.bsky.social & I provided an expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians challenging their Govt's support for Australia's coal & gas exports & their associated climate& human rights impacts. The report & associated links are here: climateuncensored.com/australias-f...
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Australia’s Fossil Fuel Exports: Climate Responsibility and Human Rights - Climate Uncensored
My colleague Dr Dan Calverley and I recently provided a detailed expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians before the UN Human Rights
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Science Magazine @science.org · 23/09/2026
According to a new #ScienceAdvances study, Earth became significantly less dusty during the 20 years after 2003. Global atmospheric mineral dust levels fell approximately 10%, a decline which may have slightly amplified recent global warming. scim.ag/478fzxq
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A global decline in atmospheric dust during the 21st century
Mineral dust affects Earth’s energy budget, clouds, and biochemistry, yet the evolution of the global dust cycle in recent decades remains shrouded in uncertainty. Here we reconstruct the global dust ...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From Nepal's prime minister Balen Shah's UNGA speech about climate disasters, humanitarian assistance by China & India, how Nepal contributes very little to global GHGs but suffers disproportionally & the UNFCCC principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Started reading. About Burmese diplomat U Thant's tenure as UN Secretary General. How he navigated major geopolitical troubles at a time when countries in Asia and Africa had just gained independence from colonial rule and sought to shape global affairs. An essence of Third World internationalism
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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) @lossanddamage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1/5 📣 NEGOTIATING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: RAJU PANDIT CHHETRI 🇳🇵 🌍 Many Global Majority negotiators face the heavy burden of experiencing severe climate devastation firsthand. 🏔️ Their communities face total displacement and devastation from #LossAndDamage impacts. 🌀
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The solar panels, electric vehicles, EV batteries and wind turbines exported by China in 2025 will avoid annual emissions equal to those of the UK and Portugal combined, according to my new estimates. Avoided emissions increased 30% compared with 2024 exports.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The depth of Israel's international isolation is difficult to fathom if you're just watching mainstream media. But these images do not lie. Look at all these delegates leaving the General Assembly in protest as soon as Netanyahu takes the podium...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature
Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Taking a moment to show how the US and its rich allies in Europe blocked loss and damage at climate negotiations for the longest time until COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt when the G77 (largest grouping of developing countries) pushed for it and finally got a deal www.levernews.com/the-u-s-is-b...
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Peter Hannam @peterhannam1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
(New from me) NSW prepares to approve biggest coal project as Albanese calls for ‘bravery’ in climate action: reneweconomy.com.au/biggest-coal...
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Biggest coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action
As the PM calls for climate "bravery" at a global summit in New York, NSW regulators prepare to sign off on a major new coal mine extension described as a "carbon bomb."
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Many countries now report GHG emissions to the UNFCCC. There is a wealth of data, and many stories to tell. Check out the processed data here, via @wflamb.bsky.social lambwf.github.io/Tidy-GHG-Inv...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please enjoy this antidote to the "where is the climate movement?" discourse. Reminder: have a weekly video pod! This week @alleenbrown.bsky.social with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social's Aru Shiney-Ajay. Last week it was Alleen, @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @ninalakhani.bsky.social youtu.be/LkGEDfSfObM
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The Spill: The Climate Movement Fights Back
YouTube video by Drilled
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For readers in the Global South who saw the West (and Western institutions like even climate INGOs) call itself a leader for decades while failing on legal obligations of both mitigation and climate finance
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Quite an interesting long-read. "Rather than taking up the mantle of "climate leadership", China is walking a mundane path to global transformation." www.break-down.org/an-accidenta...
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An Accidental Climate Revolution
Rather than taking up the mantle of "climate leadership", China is walking a mundane path to global transformation.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Human rights and anti-war organizations are launching a campaign to demand the top Biden officials who promoted or lied about the Gaza genocide be boxed out from future Democratic administrations and other liberal spaces. Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on. More expected to join.
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What are known causal factors behind rock-ice avalanche near Nepal–Tibet border? @wwattribution.bsky.social Vulnerable slope, potentially weakened by 2015 earthquake, definitely destabilised by climate change through glacier retreat & permafrost thaw. www.worldweatherattribution.org/rapid-warmin...
Height of the 0C isotherme in recent years around the rock-failure
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Industrial decarbonisation is hard. Especially in sectors dominated by small and medium-scaled enterprises
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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW from us: India's rapid clean power expansion has kept power sector emissions flat for two years, for the first time in over 50 years, and sharply reduced fossil fuel imports. Oil and gas consumption have also fallen for two years in a row, helping alleviate the Hormuz shock.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From the @wwattribution.bsky.social study on the flooding event in Nepal: "All lines of evidence show robustly increasing temperatures in the wider Himalayan region and in the proximity of the August 2026 slope failure event as a result of human-induced climate change."
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The difference that still exists between the United States (and EU + UK) and China is striking. A difference lot of climate folk do not see or do not wish to see while seeking accountability
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Roman Gautam @romangtm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Out now! A new @himalsouthasian.bsky.social investigation by @artcrimeprof.bsky.social on how Mary Slusser, a renowned US scholar, made her name as an expert on Nepal’s heritage while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States. www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Currently reading. Fascinating
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Attracta Mooney @attractamooney.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SCOOP: At least two multilateral development banks, the Inter-American Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank, are in discussions about scrapping climate finance targets, people familiar with talks said. It follows a similar move by the World Bank during the summer as.ft.com/r/5799b285-6...
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US pressure on development banks to scrap climate finance goals
Multilateral lenders expected to follow the World Bank in ditching lending targets
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 16/09/2026
All the September dynamical ENSO models (including SINTEX) are now in, and they give a 100% chance of a record event this year using the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) metric:
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Authority has released a rapid damage & needs assessment. It pegs damage around $2.7 billion & recovery & reconstruction needs around $4.8 billion. Infrastructure, & energy in particular, is the biggest component ndrrma.gov.np/en/study-rep...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Energy Transfer is also the same company that is suing Greenpeace for 'orchestrating' Dakota Access Pipeline protests. @drilledmedia.bsky.social has a whole series on the issue, most recent reporting here - drilled.media/news/the-pro...
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What Standing Rock’s Propaganda War Means Today
Ten years after the standoff, exclusive documents reveal that digital mercenaries targeted local communities and stirred up anti-protest sentiment.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 12/09/2026
Recommended read: Drilled interviewed Nepalese climate negotiator Raju Pandit Chhetri about the country’s demands for loss-and-damage financing and climate justice.
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Do the impacted countries of the High Himalaya have the imagination to huddle amid the appalling ultra-nationalist animus? Beijing, Kathmandu, Delhi and Islamabad act like they harbour a collective trans-Himalayan death wish", writes Kanak Mani Dixit: www.himalmag.com/nepal-climat...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Journalists: people who get to travel for work but never have time to actually see places. Turkey edition
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Dave Petley @davepetley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sufficient satellite & drone imagery is now available to allow initial analysis of the landslide that started the 26 August 2026 debris flow in Nepal & Tibet. eos.org/thelandslide... This was a large failure with catastrophic impacts. But larger, more devastating, events have occurred in Nepal.
Planet Labs image from 28 August 2026 showing the aftermath of the 26 August 2026 landslide in Nepal. Image via Watanave Lab.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sobering interview with Raju Pandit Chhetri, Nepal's climate negotiator, about demands for damage financing and climate justice Most material support has come from neighbouring countries; UNFCC damage and loss fund of $850 million only has $350 million available. drilled.media/news/nepal-f...
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New draft regulations would require all ground solar and onshore wind facilities in India to be paired with two-hour co-located storage at 10% of the installed capacity, for all plants commissioned after 1 July 2027, increasing to 20% and four hours from 1 July 2029. Out for comment now.
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Often find IEA's energy and electricity profile section particularly useful to draw context. Here is Nepal's electricity mix www.iea.org/countries/ne...
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Nepal is owed s'thing more substantial than sympathy & more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause.Monitoring of unstable ice & glacial lakes [..] should be funded on a standing basis, with hydrological data crossing borders as a matter of routine rather than negotiation."
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The Ice Failed Upstream. The Debt is Downstream.
Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin a...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A Nepali climate negotiator clarifies the country's official position on climate responsibility drilled.media/news/nepal-f...
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In this week's newsletter @rishpardikar.bsky.social interviews Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. drilled.ghost.io/nepal-floods...
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice. On the morning of 26 August, a series of flash ...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Interview with a Nepali climate negotiator about how the government is handling rescue & relief in the aftermath of the disastrous flooding & the kinds of international support it seeks, incl from the climate loss & damage fund + clarification about a recent controversy drilled.media/news/nepal-f...
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Nepal Floods Put Climate Loss and Damage Fund to the Test
An interview with  Raju Pandit Chhetri, a climate negotiator from Nepal, about the country’s demands for loss and damage financing and climate justice.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Everyone is consistently recommending this portal for direct donations to Nepal Donate to the Government of Nepal Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund Please consider donating today! I have! pmdrf.nchl.com.np
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