A young Indian man walks across Upper Lake, Asia’s largest artificial lake, west of Madhya Pradesh state capital Bhopal on May 27, 2009. Built by Raja Bhoj during his tenure as a king of Malwa (1005-1055), the lake once served around 40 percent of the surrounding area’s residents with nearly 30 million gallons per day but now lies completely dried up due to a lack of rains for the past three years. AFP PHOTO/STR South Asian economies will be badly squeezed by climate change within a few decades if no action is taken to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Asian Development Bank. The report calculates that the six countries studied – India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives – would on average lose 1.8 per cent of their gross domestic product by 2050 and […]