India is presently in the throes of a major cash crisis after the government abruptly decided to withdraw the two highest-denominated notes worth approximately 86% of the entire currency supply out of circulation. The ostensible reasoning behind this is to target “black money” and militant financiers, but the real-life consequences have been that millions of…
A mother has spoken of the moment she woke up in the middle of the night to find her 11-month-old daughter missing. The 25-year-old mother was sleeping in a tent with her daughter, 4-year-old son and husband on a building site in Delhi, India, when the kidnapping took place, reported Daily Mail. The 27-year-old father works as…
Amid scenes of panic across India, following PM Modi’s shock decision to withdraw high-value bills in the middle of the sowing and wedding season, Reuters reports the move, aimed at cracking down on the shadow economy, has brought India’s cash economy to a virtual standstill. With over 90% of all transactions done in cash, money…
The Indian Defence Acquisitions Council (DAC), chaired by India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, has pre-approved an armaments modernization project for the Indian armed forces for a total sum of 821 billion rupees (over $ 12 billion), the Times of India (TOI) reported. According to the report in the TOI, what has been approved is the purchase of…
For the past month, while the attention of the world has been fixed on every dramatic twist in the US presidential election, the renewal of armed conflict between India and Pakistan has barely touched the headlines. In the past few weeks, the two nuclear states have, between them, killed two dozen civilians and injured scores…
Air pollution plaguing areas surrounding India’s capital city was at one point so bad in early November that it could be seen from space. NASA satellite images taken last week reveal a thick blanket of grey smog stretching hundreds of miles from the Pakistani cities of Faisalabad and Lahore, to the Indian capital New Delhi….
