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India's trade deficit highest since 2013; experts say GST, demonetisation disrupted local businesses, hurt exports By Manpreet Singh Mumbai : Exports of merchandise – from industrial to agricultural goods – to African countries, Latin America and Japan dropped over the four years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and grew at single digits to other regions, according to an  IndiaSpend  analysis of government  data . Representational image. Reuters. In contrast, over 10 years of the two United Progressive Alliance (UPA-1 and UPA-2) administrations, India's merchandise exports – services exports are excluded from this analysis because they are limited to certain geographies because of trade agreements – grew between 11 percent to 33 percent, the data shows. The fall in India's exports do not follow global patterns – the growth rate of goods traded across the world grew 3 percent over the four years to 2018 and grew by 3.3 percent (2009 t...

Many Indians detained in U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants INTERNATIONAL Many Indians detained in U.S. crackdown on illegal immigrants Varghese K. George WASHINGTON,   JUNE 19, 2018 21:48 IST UPDATED:  JUNE 20, 2018 00:11 IST SHARE ARTICLE   406   23 PRINT A   A   A A protest in Los Angeles, California, against separation of immigrant children from their families.   | Photo Credit:  MARIO TAMA They are held in a federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon for illegally entering the United States Several people from South Asia, including many Indians, are among those detained by U.S.  immigration  authorities at a federal prison in Oregon for illegally entering the country. The Donald Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal immigration has resulted in sweeping enforcement measures such as separation of children from their families. The Indian Embassy in the U.S. is trying to...

Shujaat Bukhari assassination: Kashmir's major dailies carry blank editorials, term death 'murder of humanity' Citizens of Kashmir woke up to blank editorials in all the leading newspapers of the Valley on Tuesday morning, with the publications taking a uniform stand to protest the brutal killing of  Rising Kashmir  editor Shujaat Bukhari. For the first time in decades, both Urdu and English dailies refrained from publishing editorials, leaving blank spaces otherwise occupied by such pieces. Readers say they were confused at seeing the blank space, wondering if it could be a mistake, before realising every other newspaper also featured a similarly empty block of space. "I have been reading  Greater Kashmir  for 15 years, and  Rising Kashmir  ever since it launched in 2008. I was surprised when I saw editorials missing in both papers," said Malik Mohammad Yusuf, a retired senior state bureaucrat, adding that he initially thought it was a mistake. ...

9-year-old girl among three dead in Japan after earthquake of 6.1 magnitude hits Osaka; no tsunami warning issued At least three people — a 9-year-old girl and two men in their 80s — were killed in Japan after a strong earthquake shook the city of Osaka on Monday morning, setting off building fires, toppled concrete walls and cracked roads and water pipes. No tsunami warning was issued. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said the number of the injured had risen to 91 about three and a half hours after the quake struck the region. An 80-year-old man and a 9-year-old girl were killed, while several other people are in “cardiopulmonary arrest” after walls collapsed when a magnitude-6.1 earthquake hit Osaka in western Japan on Monday, public broadcaster  NHK  earlier reported. Japan does not confirm deaths until a formal examination has been made and generally uses the term "cardiopulmonary arrest" in such cases.  NHK  said that...

AAP dharna against Delhi L-G: Illusion of 'apolitical' nature of IAS cadre lies shattered, says party Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal's 'sit-in'  andolan , along with three of his ministers (of which two are on an indefinite hunger strike), to protest against the abject non-cooperation of a highly-politicised Indian Administrative Services (IAS) lobby in National Capital, which has not been attending any meetings called by the political executive for the past four months, and the recalcitrance of the intransigent Lieutenant Governor (L-G) who is aiding and abetting this strike on the behest of his political masters, has entered its 8th day. This week-long showdown was long in the offing given the undemocratic and reprehensible emasculation of the AAP-ruled Delhi government by the BJP-ruled central government since the time a plucky Kejriwal, a veritable David in Indian politics, slam-dunked the Modi-led BJP, a Goliath, in the winter of 2015. The...

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