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Children struggling to survive India's lockdown
Apr 18, 2020 08:11With 472 million children, India has the largest child population in the world and campaigners say the coronavirus lockdown has impacted around 40 million children from poor families.
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Why few next weeks are critical in India’s coronavirus war?
Apr 15, 2020 10:25Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the next three to four weeks would be "critical" to prevent the spread of coronavirus in India. Ever since its first case was confirmed on January 30, India has taken a number of measures to try and combat the coronavirus. It has eased testing eligibility and invoked a draconian 122-year-old colonial-era epidemic diseases law to restrict public gatherings, among other things.
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Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls
Apr 12, 2020 23:50A nationwide lockdown imposed across India almost two weeks ago to stop the spread of the coronavirus — the largest lockdown of its kind attempted anywhere — has led to widespread chaos and suffering, especially among the country’s 300 million poor. Yet in Delhi, the world’s most polluted city, it has also resulted in some of the freshest air the capital has seen in decades.
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Reactions on India's sectarian riots
Mar 12, 2020 07:41The violence raged across the north-east of India’s capital for four days as Mosques were set alight, Muslims were burned alive in their homes or dragged out into the streets and lynched. Muslim businesses and property were also set alight. The police have been accused of enabling, encouraging or even joining the Hindu mobs. The Citizenship Amendment Act was passed by the Indian parliament in December last year sparking protests and riots across the country.
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New Delhi rocked by deadly protests during Trump’s India visit
Feb 27, 2020 14:25US President Donald Trump has arrived in India on his first official visit to the country amid strained relations between Washington and New Delhi over a trade dispute. Trump’s visit to New Delhi was overshadowed by deadly protests over a new citizenship law which many believe discriminates against Muslims, as Muslim and Hindu groups clashed violently and the death toll rose to nine.
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In Asia Pacific climate crisis is happening now, not in future
Dec 26, 2019 08:18Many big Asian cities, including Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Jakarta, are coastal and low-lying, making them susceptible to sea level rise and other extreme weather events.
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Indian govt going to war against its own people
Dec 21, 2019 16:13Protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are now ongoing in every part of India, with a cross-section of society outraged by the religious implications of this law.
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Indian government pushes religion-based citizenship law
Dec 16, 2019 16:42A bill that the Indian government recently pushed through the lower house of Parliament would grant citizenship to refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians.
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India, China and contours of the Asian Century
Oct 19, 2019 21:31India and China, two economic powerhouses of Asia are not only the key drivers of the economic renaissance that Asia is undergoing in the global economy but central to redefining the global economic order and heralding the Asian Century as well.
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Why manufacturers not rushing into India, Indonesia?
Oct 11, 2019 08:55The culture of manufacturing which is prevalent in countries like Germany, Japan, China and South Korea is missing in India and Indonesia. Indonesia lacks graduates in degrees that support manufacturing.