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India needs to review ties with junta post-coup
News, Nehginpao Kipgen & Prasanna Kumar, Published on 09/02/2021
» As India's gateway to Southeast Asia, Myanmar weighs high on New Delhi's strategic calculations -- especially following the military coup on Feb 1 -- and its return to military rule has forced strategic thinkers in New Delhi back to the drawing board.
'Raped twice': Pakistan's virginity tests block justice for victims
Kaneez Fatima and Aishwarya Kumar, of AFP, Published on 13/01/2021
» LAHORE: Raped at 14, Shazia took the rare and courageous step of reporting the crime to Pakistani police, only to face a traumatic "virginity test" -- a long-standing practice that denies justice to victims.
Free behind bars
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 13/07/2020
» Business has been booming for Karulal Nagar. A manufacturer of drawstrings used in kurtis (short shirts that women wear in India), he's been earning a profit of 3,000 rupees (US$40) a day, far more than the 6,000 rupees a month that he earned in the not-so-distant past.
Borders within borders
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 25/05/2020
» Sandeep Singh has been stuck in his sister's house in outer Delhi for weeks. The resident of a village in Haryana state just across the border from the Indian capital, he has not dared to visit his family there since April 28 when the Haryana government sealed its borders with Delhi and banned interstate travel.
Rice bowl threatened
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 11/05/2020
» Punjab and Haryana are at risk of losing their status as India's rice bowl as authorities try to persuade farmers to switch to cotton and maize.
Lives vs livelihood debated during Indian lockdown
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 27/04/2020
» Birendra Chahal is like a person who is all dressed up but has nowhere to go. The owner of a garment export factory in Greater Noida, 40km east of New Delhi, he was all ready to restart operations on April 20, but local authorities had other plans.
Indian health workers under siege
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 13/04/2020
» Dr Rameshwar Jha and his colleagues working at the government hospital in Motihari in Bihar state are extremely stressed. For over two weeks, they have been tending to an increasing number of suspected coronavirus sufferers in the emergency room, without personal protective equipment (PPE).
Marriage by the book
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 30/03/2020
» When Kinnari Ba remarked during a motivational lecture she gave last July that she would prefer her father gifting books equal to her weight in dowry, instead of gold and silver, it was a spur-of-the-moment pronouncement.
Funny business
Asia focus, Nikhil Kumar, Published on 16/03/2020
» Navin Prabhakar became a household name in 2005 when he appeared on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on television. Today he is among the standup comedians making a good living by making corporate executives and employees laugh.
Getting exchange rates right
Asia focus, Nikhil Patel and Shang-Jin Wei in New York, Published on 29/04/2019
» The real effective exchange rate (REER) may sound arcane to non-economists, but it is one of the most important international financial indices. It is a summary index that tracks the difference in the prices of goods produced by a country and its trading partners.