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Energy and climate

IMD forecast all-India June–September 2019 rainfall at 96% of the long-period average, with ±5 percentage points model error.

India Meteorological Department
India

Made 2019Resolved 2019

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Energy and climate

India’s Cabinet committed to 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2022, including 40 GW of rooftop installations.

Union Cabinet of India
India

Made 2015Resolved 2025

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Science

ISRO’s launch-day plan stated that Vikram would soft-land in the lunar south-polar region on September 7, 2019.

Indian Space Research Organisation
India

Made 2019Resolved 2019

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Science

After lunar-orbit insertion, ISRO stated that planned braking maneuvers would facilitate a soft landing on August 23, 2023.

Indian Space Research Organisation
India

Made 2023Resolved 2023

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Environment

Sherry Rehman warned of an overall above-normal monsoon tendency, particularly over Punjab and Sindh, and possible disastrous impacts.

Sherry Rehman
Pakistan

Made 2022Resolved 2022

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Economics and finance

IMF staff projected Pakistan’s real GDP would contract 1.5% in fiscal year 2020 under the COVID-19 shock.

International Monetary Fund staff
Pakistan

Made 2020Resolved 2020

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Medicine and public health

Sri Lanka’s 2009 Malaria Elimination Project aimed to eliminate indigenous malaria by 2014.

Sri Lanka Anti-Malaria Campaign
Sri Lanka

Made 2009Resolved 2014

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Transport

The World Bank’s January 2011 appraisal assumed the Padma road bridge would open in 2015.

World Bank project team
Bangladesh

Made 2011Resolved 2022

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Medicine and public health

WHO identified Nepal among countries that could eliminate indigenous malaria by 2020.

World Health Organization
Nepal

Made 2017Resolved 2020

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