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Topic: Asia

Travel boom in India & Asia could take a hit as pilot shortage worsens

Kyunghee Park -
Airlines such as IndiGo, Air Asia have had to cut flights daily with pilots exhausting their annual limit of flying hours.

Indonesia grabs the upper hand over India in battle of high-yielding bond markets

Kartik Goyal -
Comparison between the two Asian economies is common given their similarities, and that’s especially true this year.

Bangladesh’s lesson for India-obsessed Pakistan: Transform war economy into a peace economy

Pervez Hoodbhoy -
Bangladesh’s priorities are economic growth and human development whereas the bulk of Pakistan’s national energies remain focused on check-mating India

China is buying good press across the world, one paid journalist at a time

Ananth Krishnan -
It coincides with launch of Belt and Road initiative and president Xi Jinping's call to “tell China’s story better” to the world.

China wants Imran Khan’s Pakistan to be dependable before being dependent

Husain Haqqani -
China shows Imran Khan that Pakistan’s ‘locational narcissism’ isn’t enough.

What are we to make of China’s plans to build a Silk Road railway through the heart of Asia?

David Fickling -
In China itself, rail traffic peaked in 2013 and has never quite recovered, despite an economy that’s grown by half since then.

Tourists spend more money in Thailand than anywhere else in Asia

Nikki Ekstein -
Foreign arrivals in Thailand could hit 40 million next year, which is more than half the country’s population.

Bulls go missing after troubled lender strips India of Asia’s best stock market tag

Abhishek Vishnoi -
The S&P BSE Sensex is now headed for its worst month in two and a half years.

Modi govt plans to cut imports to counter falling rupee

Shruti Srivastava -
As the rupee plunges, the Narendra Modi government has decided to cut the imports of goods including electronics and steel.

The airport of the future is here. And it doesn’t need humans

Kyunghee Park -
Singapore's Changi has built an entire terminal to test airport bots of the future. London & Tokyo are also exploring automation.
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From Virat & Anushka selling sarias to dentist ads, Bihar walls tell a ‘rurbanisation’ story

Shekhar Gupta -
Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Trump stoked the Epstein scandal. It’s come back to bite him

India’s much-maligned intelligence agencies are our only hope against terror attacks

Economy

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Bloomberg News -
Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Defence

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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