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Migration mess
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 06/04/2020
» When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a 21-day lockdown on March 24, it was aimed at ensuring social distancing and giving authorities time to ramp up facilities including testing kits, hospital beds and ventilators in the fight against the new coronavirus.
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Female-friendly travel
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 27/01/2020
» Ask blogger Chittra M about the kinds of difficulties she faces while travelling alone around India and she will tell you about an experience she had in Nagpur in 2018.
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'Privatisation' debate swirls around Indian Railways
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 04/11/2019
» Indian Railways, the seventh largest employer in the world, is starting to get the private sector more involved in its operations. But don't call it privatisation, says the country's railways minister.
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Women on wheels delivering change in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 04/09/2017
» When Parvati Kumari, 21, went out to deliver KFC chicken for the first time to a house in Lucknow in March, she was scared and nervous.
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Caregivers for seniors in high demand in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 21/08/2017
» Deepa Chandrasekhar, 52, felt helpless in November last year. A banker settled in Bahrain for the last 25 years with her husband and children, she did not know who would take care of her mother Girija Rajaram, a Parkinson's patient whose health was starting to deteriorate rapidly.
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Digital silver lining
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 26/12/2016
» Sunil Kaushik, alias Sonu, has never had it so easy.
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Inspiring odyssey: Indian man cycles for months to find missing partner
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 12/12/2016
» The story of Tapeshwar Bhagat, 40, a daily-wage labourer who looks like a renunciant with his flowing salt-and-pepper beard and curly hair locks, makes for a perfect movie script.
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Fast track to India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 31/10/2016
» India has made significant strides under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to position itself as more friendly to foreign investment, but the actual process of getting a new business off the ground is still not as smooth as investors or authorities want it to be.
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India's tortoise trains
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 22/08/2016
» At 7.05 in the morning when locomotive driver Pralhad Thakare switches on his engine at Murtizapur Junction, 600 kilometres northeast of Mumbai, he gets a token.
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India on the rebound
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/06/2016
» Riding on huge government spending on infrastructure and the introduction of a series of economic reforms, the Indian economy is showing signs of recovery after a few sluggish quarters.
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