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'Modicare' to the rescue
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 11/06/2018
» Sunita Devi, 45, has been losing hope for her niece, 13-year-old Soni Kumari. The housewife from Bihar state has been camped on the pavement outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India's premier healthcare institute in New Delhi, since May 16.
Bitter sweet
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 30/04/2018
» Chaudhary Rakesh Tikait casts his memory back to 1967 as he reflects on the plight of farmers in India.
Lower castes growing more assertive in India
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 07/05/2018
» Sanjay Jatav believes he has won an important battle in the long war against caste-based discrimination in India.
Jobless growth
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 19/03/2018
» Sumit Kumar, 26, has been out on the street for last two and a half months.
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.
Ex-con prefers jail to loneliness of freedom
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 26/03/2018
» Pushkar Dutt Bhatt lives the way people in primitive times did in India. He has no electricity, tap water or washroom in his house. He cooks his food on firewood and bathes in the natural pool located two kilometres from his residence.
Bloom and doom
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 02/04/2018
» When the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The earth laughs in flowers", he didn't have the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand in mind. But the premature blooming of rhododendrons in parts of the Indian Himalayan region is putting frowns on the faces of scientists, who believe it could be linked to climate change.
One India, one election
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 19/02/2018
» After introducing a single nationwide Goods and Services Tax in India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now floating the idea of a single election day for the entire country.
Modi looks east
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 05/03/2018
» Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be bringing a long to-do list when he touches down in Thailand in early June. It includes joint defence manufacturing, cruise tourism, maritime transport, a possible "white shipping" agreement, highway transport via Myanmar, and strengthening of cultural links, among others.
All religions under one roof in hospital prayer room
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 19/02/2018
» Every time Prakash Singh gets stressed about the condition of his brother-in-law Harbansh Singh, he leaves the visitors' waiting area in the hospital and goes into a prayer room where he can share his feelings with Waheguru (God).