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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).
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.