• BUSINESS

  $5-trillion question: Can Modi hit his economic target?

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 12/08/2019

  » One hundred trillion rupees (US$1.4 trillion) for highways, railways, airports, waterways, crop storage and digital infrastructure; 20 million new houses; 125,000 kilometres of roads; a reduction in fuel imports by 5-6 trillion rupees as solar power and e-vehicles take hold … the Indian government has a very ambitious to-do list.

• WORLD

  Real estate blues

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 08/01/2018

  » Real estate, the second largest employer in the Indian economy, has been hit badly by reforms including demonetisation, the crackdown on "black money", tax changes and new consumer-friendly regulations intended to hold developers more accountable.

• BUSINESS

  Fast track to India

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 31/10/2016

  » India has made significant strides under Prime Minister Narendra Modi to position itself as more friendly to foreign investment, but the actual process of getting a new business off the ground is still not as smooth as investors or authorities want it to be.

• BUSINESS

  Trade trouble: GSP loss sours India-US relations

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 24/06/2019

  » When Ajay Thakur heard that India would be losing preferential trade treatment from the United States under its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), he took the bad news in stride.

• BUSINESS

  Virtual war

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 26/03/2018

  » The battle lines have been drawn. On one side are the massed forces of the Indian government, represented by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), tax authorities and other state agencies, along with public and private-sector banks. On the other side are the proponents of an ever-expanding number of decentralised, stateless virtual currencies.

• BUSINESS

  Tough love

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 23/01/2017

  » For Mohan Chaturvedi, the first six months of his marriage were like hell. Sexual relations with his wife were a torment because he suffered from premature ejaculation. The three "sex pharmacies" he consulted for a cure fleeced him of the equivalent of 52,400 baht without giving him any respite whatsoever.

• BUSINESS

  The parent trap

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 25/07/2016

  » Lalchand Rankor has fear and apprehension writ large on his face. Sitting on an iron cot in his two-storey house built on a 20-square-metre lot, he answers a visitor's questions in monosyllables or murmurs.

• BUSINESS

  Dried Out

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/05/2016

  » When his intermediate school examinations ended in March, Shivam Mishra was looking forward to relaxing and having fun until July when the new term would begin.

• WORLD

  India on the rebound

  Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/06/2016

  » Riding on huge government spending on infrastructure and the introduction of a series of economic reforms, the Indian economy is showing signs of recovery after a few sluggish quarters.

• BUSINESS

  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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