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Banking blues
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 14/03/2016
» The Narendra Modi government has launched a multi-pronged approach to resuscitate the Indian banking sector which has been reeling from a huge increase in non-performing assets (NPAs) in recent years.
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Caste cauldron
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 29/02/2016
» The Narendra Modi government is in a quandary over how to respond to the demands of the Jats, a Hindu caste numbering 80 million in nine states in northern and northwestern India, following more than a week of deadly riots.
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Shooting stars
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 22/02/2016
» Led by a pair of elderly housewives, hundreds of girls in a region of northern India notorious for honour killings and bias against girl children have thrown off their veils and picked up the gun.
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India's numbers game
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 15/02/2016
» The world is counting increasingly on growth in India to help offset the economic slowdown being witnessed across Asia and beyond. But concerns are rising about whether lofty expectations can be met in a country where the gap is widening between the rural and urban economies.
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Land battle
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 18/01/2016
» Relatives of Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first prime minister, are locked in a legal showdown with officials in a northern Indian city after claiming about half of its land as their private property.
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'Roti Bank' a lifeline in drought-stricken Indian region
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/01/2016
» A novel way of feeding the hungry and destitute has emerged in a city in Uttar Pradesh state. Mahoba, located 550 kilometres southeast of New Delhi, is at the heart of Bundelkhand, a region in central India that has endured severe droughts, starvation deaths and malnutrition for several years.
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Alternate-day driving comes to choking Indian capital
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 28/12/2015
» New Delhi will greet the New Year with as many as 900,000 fewer private vehicles on its congested, smog-shrouded roads. The number could rise further now that the state government has decided to extend its alternate-day driving restrictions to vehicles entering the megalopolis of 25.8 million from outside.
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Cell shocked
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 21/12/2015
» Telecommunication companies in India are coming under increased pressure from the Narendra Modi government to fix network problems and reduce a dropped-call rate that is one of the worst in the world.
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Indian PM ready to make new overtures to Asean
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 23/11/2015
» Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing to outline new proposals to stimulate the "blue ocean" economy through new areas of partnership with Asean when he delivers a major address in Singapore today.
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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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