When Sri Lanka had an economic crisis in 2022, India had helped out by giving credit lines throughout 2022, that helped with fuel imports and other assistance. The economic crisis happened because of a small amount of federal exchange reserves. Recently, the new President of Sri Lanka had been working to get a $2.9 billion loan from the IMF (International… Read more »
Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/78260007.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst On Tuesday, India’s lower house of parliament approved long-pending, disputed labor reforms in the heat of a boycott by opposition parties and protests from trade unions. The three new labor codes will replace decades-old laws and simplify labor regulations. The three bills include the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, the Industrial Relations Code and the… Read more »
On Tuesday morning, India began launching airstrikes aimed at militant targets in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. This course of action was provoked because India had reason to believe that it was the target of a suicide bomber group which killed 40 Indian troops. Indian foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale appear on national TV hours later, defending that the intended targets were not against… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kashmir-latest-india-pakistan-air-strike-planes-attack-a8800131.html There is a certain symmetry to the way things stand in the highly strung conflict between India and Pakistan – as of Wednesday night, we should add, given just how fast the situation is developing. On Tuesday morning, India took the unprecedented step of launching airstrikes at what it said were militant targets in Pakistani territory across the Kashmir line of control. Hours later, the Indian… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-pakistan-crisis-kashmir-border-shelling-a8804351.html Six civilians have been killed after violence continued to escalate between Indiaand Pakistan in Kashmir. Indian police said two siblings and their mother were killed in Indian-controlled Kashmir after a shell fired by Pakistani soldiers hit their home. In Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, government official Umar Azam said Indian troops with heavy weapons “indiscriminately targeted border villagers”, killing a boy and wounding three other people. He added… Read more »
Tensions between Pakistan and India have peaked after a Thursday bombing against armed Indian security forces. 40 confirmed paramilitary deaths have resulted from the horrific event. Responsibility has been claimed by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadist group, based out of Pakistan. This tragedy is the worst India’s seen since Kashmir’s insurgency three decades ago. India’s Lt Gen KJS Dhillon accused Pakistan of… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bhopal-gas-leak-anniversary-poison-deaths-compensation-union-carbide-dow-chemical-a8780126.html When the gas first started seeping into their thatch and wooden homes, many residents of the poorer neighbourhoods of Bhopal, India, thought they were being afflicted by a neighbour burning chillies. It was only when they went outside, coughing and with stinging eyes, that they saw the devastation wrought by the worst industrial accident the world has ever seen; 40 tonnes… Read more »
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-kashmir-pakistan-threat-imran-khan-jem-car-bomb-paramilitary-a8786196.html Mothers in Kashmir should tell their sons to put down their arms or be prepared to see them dead, India’s top military commander in the contested region has said after an unprecedented suicide bomb attack. Responsibility for the bomb, which killed 40 paramilitary police, has been claimed by Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadist group. Pakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has now responded for the first time, saying… Read more »
Prime Minister Modi has announced the implementation of a variety of expensive changes to the Indian government. Critics have suggested that such decisions, like extending federal aid to all farmers, is a ploy to gain political support for the upcoming general election. New changes include assisting over 620 million Indian citizens with a basic income of 6,000 rupees, or just… Read more »
The Indian government has announced the introduction of a basic income for poor farmers, as part of a budget full of expensive vote-winning policies clearly geared towards a general election in just a few months time. The handouts will affect 620 million people, including millions of smallholding farmers who will be paid 6,000 rupees (£64) a year. The measures are… Read more »