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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Saints and sinners
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 17/08/2015
» India seems to be witnessing a deluge of cases involving less-than-saintly activity by Hindu "godmen" with at least half a dozen spiritual gurus under investigation for crimes ranging from rape to land grabs, hawala dealing and cheating.
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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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Tourist haunt
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 19/10/2015
» An abandoned village in western India has become a major attraction with tens of thousands of tourists flocking there every year in search of a spooky experience.
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India’s battle over beef
Business, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 09/11/2015
» The politics of cows and the huge depreciation of the Brazilian currency have threaten to scupper India’s efforts to increase beef exports to Southeast Asia and China and maintain its position as the largest supplier of beef in the world.
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