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$5-trillion question: Can Modi hit his economic target?
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 12/08/2019
» One hundred trillion rupees (US$1.4 trillion) for highways, railways, airports, waterways, crop storage and digital infrastructure; 20 million new houses; 125,000 kilometres of roads; a reduction in fuel imports by 5-6 trillion rupees as solar power and e-vehicles take hold … the Indian government has a very ambitious to-do list.
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Smartphone supremacy
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 22/04/2019
» Up until three years ago, Gaurav Singh Chauhan used to sell 15 or 20 Micromax mobile phones in a day. Now he considers himself lucky if he can sell one unit a month of the Indian-made handsets.
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'No minimum wage, no emigration,' says India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 18/05/2015
» The Indian government may deny emigration clearance to Gulf countries if the latter do not agree to pay recommended minimum wages prescribed by its embassies for different categories of Indian workers in those countries.
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Clean transformation: Indian city winning war on waste
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 24/02/2020
» Fruit seller Neeraj Karat is proud of his city. This was not the case just four years ago, when a large heap of garbage was part of the landscape just a few hundred metres from his stall in Jabalpur.
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Modi 2.0
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 27/05/2019
» The economic headlines in April and May, the first two months of the Indian financial year, made depressing reading for the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Political consultants raising the bar in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 28/05/2018
» Political research and analysis, designing and planning campaigns, training and managing election workers, data mining, digital outreach and helplines for voters, producing campaign videos -- you name it and Manish Jha does it.
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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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Caste cauldron
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 29/02/2016
» The Narendra Modi government is in a quandary over how to respond to the demands of the Jats, a Hindu caste numbering 80 million in nine states in northern and northwestern India, following more than a week of deadly riots.
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Land battle
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 18/01/2016
» Relatives of Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first prime minister, are locked in a legal showdown with officials in a northern Indian city after claiming about half of its land as their private property.
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Gloom at the inn
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 21/09/2015
» Anurag Bhardwaj is a man of modest ambitions. The marketing manager of a luxury resort in the National Capital Region, he recently signed a heavily discounted deal with an Indian tractor manufacturer to provide accommodation to staff visiting from its parent company in Italy.
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