Tag: South Asia

Yokohama: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday urged the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to set up a regional hub for South Asia in New Delhi so that the majority of proposals could be processed speedily. Addressing the ADB Board of Governors here, Jaitley said there was need to look at processes and procedures for which […]

Islamabad: Pakistan will be the first South Asian country to test fifth generation cellular services for fast connectivity, Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman has said. “Pakistan recently won the GSMA award and ranked third in the list of mobile telecom operator groups,” Rehman said on Tuesday. The government was working on a […]

Kolkata: Warning that wheat blast could be “catastrophic” for South Asia, scientists from Bangladesh, which was ravaged by an outbreak of the disease in 2016, have offered to help their Indian counterparts tackle the deadly fungal foe, reported here for the first time this year. Following the first sightings of wheat blast in India in […]

With the United States shifting the focus of its foreign policy to the Asia Pacific region, Myanmar has gained a tremendous strategic importance. This became clear when President Barack Obama had made Myanmar his first port of call after he assumed office in his second term. This is also the reason why Chinese President Xi […]

Mumbai: OYO Hotels and Homes on Tuesday announced a commitment of Rs 1,400 crore for the India and South Asia business. The idea is to further deepen and widen presence across the home country while focusing on aggressive capacity building, the company said. Founder and Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal said, “We are committing over Rs […]

Mumbai: India can emerge as top five exporters of agro commodities in the world if the central and state governments take effective measures to handhold farmers, a study conducted by MVIRDC World Trade Center Mumbai showed. According to the study, through focused intervention in capacity building, India can enhance its agro-export to surpass Thailand and […]