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MANILA -- Rice prices in the Philippines continued to rise in January despite slowing overall inflation, with El Nino and India's export ban promising to exacerbate the trend in the coming months.
Ritesh Kumar Singh is founder and chief executive of policy research and advisory company Indonomics Consulting in New Delhi.
When drag artist Patruni Chidanand Sastry, 31, stepped on to the open-air stage at an elite school in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad – dressed in an embroidered blouse and skirt, a multicoloured wig and a mask made of sawdust and tamarind seed paste – children sitting in the front row looked at him in awe.
The global oil market is looking increasingly local as militant attacks in the Red Sea and surging freight rates make supplies from closer to home more attractive.
Exports of premium Indian basmati rice last month were half of what they were a year ago, with traders blaming freight rates that have doubled following a series of attacks on commercial ships by Iran-backed Houthi militants.
Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has signed a trade pact with Thailand in a bid to boost trade and investment as the Indian Ocean island nation struggles to recover from its worst economic crisis that hit two years ago.
KOLKATA -- Daniella Mendonca, an intersex person, gushes over her wedding gown as she meticulously plans her wedding with her partner Joel. Drag performer Lush Monsoon anticipates a first meeting with a blind date over feverish texts in the middle of the night. Trinetra Haldar, a transgender woman, flits between the cities of Mumbai and Manipal, navigating two worlds as an actor and a doctor.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 31 armed MQ-9B SkyGuardian drones, related missiles and equipment to India for nearly $4 billion, the Pentagon said on Thursday, years after the two countries started discussing a deal.