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India and Pakistan fight a common enemy: locusts
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 16/09/2019
» Madho Singh was struck by panic last month when he saw a swarm of locusts on his farm in Barmer district in Rajasthan, about 150 kilometres east of the India-Pakistan border. He immediately alerted a village officer, who put him in touch with the Locust Warning Organisation (LWO).
Mission to India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/06/2016
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha can expect a warm welcome when he arrives in India on Thursday, but no endorsement, implicit or explicit, of the military regime he heads.
'Roti Bank' a lifeline in drought-stricken Indian region
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/01/2016
» A novel way of feeding the hungry and destitute has emerged in a city in Uttar Pradesh state. Mahoba, located 550 kilometres southeast of New Delhi, is at the heart of Bundelkhand, a region in central India that has endured severe droughts, starvation deaths and malnutrition for several years.
India's new tourism frontier
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 03/08/2015
» Encouraged by a huge increase in foreign visitors to some of its northeastern states following the relaxation of permit restrictions, India's Tourism Ministry is seeking similar respite from the permit raj in all of Arunachal Pradesh as well as parts of Jammu & Kashmir and Sikkim states bordering China.