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Back to school
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/02/2015
» India is seeing a growing imbalance in its trade with Asean, Japan and South Korea because its businesses have been failing to take full advantage of free trade agreements. Low awareness among businesses of the potential of FTAs is one reason, and the government has decided that education is the answer.
Rahul Gandhi chills in Thailand while party struggles
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/03/2015
» The embarrassment is mounting for India's opposition party as it heads into a pivotal showdown with the government minus its highest-profile figure. Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Congress family dynasty, is taking an extended break in Thailand. Some say he's doing some soul-searching but others say he's just sulking at the way party elders treat him.
Indian industry seeks tax breaks for explorers
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/03/2015
» Indian industrialists are pushing for tax breaks for oil and gas explorers to promote more activity in the sector.
Double-edged sword
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 16/03/2015
» India's new Land Acquisition Bill, which has passed its first hurdle in Parliament, is likely to increase property prices further in the country.
'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.
Modi's new message
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 25/05/2015
» Rattled by repeated opposition assertions that his government is an anti-poor and anti-farmer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has embarked on a massive publicity blitz to make people aware of the achievements in his first year in office.
Noodle noose tightens
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 15/06/2015
» After banning nine variants of Maggi noodles, manufactured by the multinational food giant Nestle, for high lead and monosodium glutamate (MSG) levels, the Indian government has launched a war to weed out other non-standardised food products.
One tax to rule them all
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 06/07/2015
» The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is moving steadily toward introducing India's single biggest indirect tax reform since independence. A proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) would be the centrepiece of an integrated, comprehensive, IT-based and seamless tax regime replacing 17 taxes by April 1 next year.
Medicine messiah
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 03/08/2015
» There is nothing remarkable about Onkar Nath Sharma. The resident of a slum in western Delhi, he's 157 centimetres tall, weighs less than 50 kilogrammes and is on the wrong side of 70. He moves about with difficulty, as his feet face inward and he has growths on his kneecaps, the result of shoddy surgery after an accident when he was young.
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.