NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India on Saturday said it had lodged a protest with the United States government after several Indian students were detained there in connection with their enrolment in a fake university, following an undercover operation by U.S. agents. U.S. authorities this week said eight individuals who exploited the country’s student visa system had been indicted. They had… Read more »
This week in South and Central Asia the article that drew my attention was about the unemployment rate in India. A national survey shows that India’s unemployment rate has rose to the highest level in 45 years. However, due to how the government interfered with these statistics and withheld the information from the public for a while, it is obvious… Read more »
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s cane farmers are owed 200 billion rupees ($2.8 billion) by sugar mills in the world’s second-biggest producer of the sweetener as refined sugar prices have fallen below the cost of production, a leading trade body said on Monday.FILE PHOTO – A sweeper cleans a road in front of sugarcane displayed for sale at a wholesale market… Read more »
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Walmart Inc-owned Flipkart and Amazon.com Inc’s Indian unit are rushing to rejig ownership structures and rework some key vendor relationships, as they seek to comply with new Indian e-commerce curbs without disrupting their businesses.The logo of India’s e-commerce firm Flipkart is seen in this illustration picture taken January 29, 2019. In late December, India modified rules around… Read more »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An official survey that has been withheld by the government shows India’s unemployment rate rose to its highest level in at least 45 years in 2017/18, the Business Standard newspaper reported on Thursday, delivering a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi months before a general election.FILE PHOTO: Tradespeople sit on the side of a road as… Read more »