The slaughterhouse’s operations come as part of an agreement between Pakistan and China to export donkey by-products, particularly hides, to the Chinese market in 2024.
Baloch people have been protesting 'continued oppression by Pakistan state'. Their demands include stopping use of force, releasing arrested participants, opening highways of Balochistan.
R&AW would be guilty of incompetence if it didn’t have ties with Baloch rebels. But the conspiratorialism of Pakistani intelligence is again pushing the country toward disastrous missteps.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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