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Indian 'ghost schools' expose failures of state system
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 21/05/2018
» Perched on a hill and painted snow white, the government primary school in Shuklapur, a small hamlet on the outskirts of Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand state, looks majestic.
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Thailand beckons more Indian holidaymakers
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 25/12/2017
» Millions of Indians will soon be heading to foreign shores to ring in the New Year. A large number of them will be landing in Thailand, confirming the status of the Land of Smiles as a favoured destination.
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GST jumble
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 29/05/2017
» Naseem is a confused man. The owner of two department stores in Ghaziabad, a city just east of Delhi, he is worried that the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) is going to damage his sales.
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India's 'Good Sense Tax'
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 15/08/2016
» Mangal Singh Rawal is finally seeing some light at the end of the dark tunnel that he and many other businessmen have been navigating for years.
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India discovers Thailand
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 18/04/2016
» It seems all roads from India these days are leading to Thailand, which is emerging as the favourite tourist destination for Indian globetrotters.
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Unlettered in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/11/2015
» Even as India makes rapid strides toward achieving 100% literacy and universal access to digital technology, there is a village just 170 kilometres from New Delhi where almost nobody can read and write in any language.
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Time to get real
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 12/10/2015
» Noida Extension -- a 3,600-hectare suburb about 40 kilometres east of New Delhi, where 250,000 housing units are being built -- will tell you why India's property market continues to be in a slump and is unlikely to hit a purple patch anytime soon.
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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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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.
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