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    Indian PM ready to make new overtures to Asean

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 23/11/2015

    » Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing to outline new proposals to stimulate the "blue ocean" economy through new areas of partnership with Asean when he delivers a major address in Singapore today.

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    Eco-warriors

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 01/07/2019

    » The "school strike" outside the Swedish parliament in August last year and the emergence of the Extinction Rebellion movement have inspired thousands of eco-warriors across India, who are turning up the heat in their campaign against pollution and environmental degradation.

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    Bloom and doom

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/04/2018

    » When the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The earth laughs in flowers", he didn't have the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in mind. But the premature blooming of rhododendrons in parts of the Indian Himalayan region is putting frowns on the faces of scientists, who believe it could be linked to climate change.

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    Waste not

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 14/12/2015

    » The world of Mohammad Khokun Hamid has rarely been much bigger than 10 square kilometres. The resident of a cramped room in a slum that has arisen on cemetery land near the famous Hazrat Nizamuddin shrine in South Delhi, Mr Hamid is one of thousands of rag pickers and waste collectors in the Indian capital.

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    India's renewable push

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/11/2015

    » The Narendra Modi government is working at a frenzied pace to pass regulations to meet its target of generating 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy by 2022, as part of India's campaign to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and combat global warming.

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