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Bangladesh: Poisoned Chalice - Newsweek Middle East

Bangladesh: Poisoned Chalice - Newsweek Middle East

newsweekme.com — By Aarti Betigeri For decades, villagers in large parts of Bangladesh have been knowingly drinking arsenic-contaminated water-and slowly killing themselves in the process. In fact, it is estimated that 43,000 people die in the country each year from illnesses related to ingesting arsenic. While the diseases themselves are not unique-often cancers and cardiovascular disorders-the victims sometimes develop black lesions on their bodies, a tell-tale sign of regular arsenic ingestion. Groundwater and soil across parts of southeast and south Asia are contaminated with naturally occurring arsenic, and the numbers affected are staggeringly high: around 20 million people are forced to drink, wash and cook with water gathered from polluted wells.
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Made in Australia: Jardan - Issue 91 - Magazine

Made in Australia: Jardan - Issue 91 - Magazine

Monocle — As far as the firms over the next four pages are concerned, if you want a job done properly you do it yourself. Be they making bikes, furniture, microphones, ferries or guitars, these are companies that all revel in the fact that they still call Australia home.
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Forever Frenemies

Forever Frenemies

newsweekme.com — In the imperilled world of India-Pakistan relations, things can change drastically very quickly, while ultimately staying the same. In the final week of 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an unscheduled stop to Lahore to meet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in the first such visit by an Indian leader in 11 years, and in a move that breathed fresh oxygen into efforts to mend the long fraught relationship between the neighbors. But just eight days later, a terrorist attack was launched on an Indian air force base in the town of Pathankot, just 25 kilometers from the Pakistani border, leaving seven soldiers dead.
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Aussie Rules

Aussie Rules

Motherland — In a cricket field in Bhubaneshwar, the ground the ochre-red of central India's mineral-rich earth, 36 young tribal children, dressed in identical school uniforms, are chasing after a ball. Kicking up large clouds of dust, they run, jump, defend, shout, all the while in hot pursuit of their prize. It could be any football field, anywhere in the country - until one leaps into the air and plucks a distinctly oval-shaped orb out of the air with his hands.
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Adani faces questions over conduct at home

Adani faces questions over conduct at home

Sydney Morning Herald — Adani's Mundra Port operation. Photo: Supplied Things are looking increasingly grim for Indian conglomerate the Adani Group and its plans to mine coal in Queensland, despite the company's staunch assertions it is here to stay. Obstacles to that plan are mounting: banks are refusing to provide finance, a major customer has pulled out, staff have been laid off, and development of the $16 billion Carmichael mine is also hampered by environmental challenges. People, companies like Adani who have influence over governments, get away with anything. It's happening across India. Activist Sudiep Shrivastava Yet battling opposition to its facilities on environmental and other grounds is nothing new for the group.
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Indian adoptions equivalent to human trafficking: NGO

Indian adoptions equivalent to human trafficking: NGO

Australian Broadcasting Corporation News — Updated September 08, 2015 19:08:06 Last year, Germany-based adoption activist Arun Dohle was handed the file of a young Australian woman who wanted to find her birth family in India. Years of searching had proved fruitless up until then. Mr Dohle sent the brief to his Indian colleague Anjali Pawar. With scant details, just the name of the village and the birth date, Ms Pawar hit the phones and managed to locate the woman's birth mother in just 10 hours. Mr Dohle and Ms Pawar, of the Europe-based NGO Against Child Trafficking (ACT), have long been involved with child protection and adoption issues.
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Australia's brownest funnymen

Australia's brownest funnymen

gqindia.com — I'm in the cafeteria of the Melbourne office of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, waiting for Nazeem Hussain to finish his show. He's presenting the prestigious breakfast slot on the national broadcaster's youth radio station, Triple J. He whirls in, breathlessly apologizing for being a few minutes late, then beckons me over to a table, fanned with the day's newspapers. "I want to show you something." He taps his fingers on a page of the entertainment section: there, is a photo of Nazeem, but captioned with another's name: "Waleed Aly joins The Project".
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The danger in banning the film on India gang rape

The danger in banning the film on India gang rape

Al Jazeera — In well under 12 hours of the BBC documentary "India's Daughter" being uploaded on the BBC website and on YouTube, Indian authorities had succeeded in either having most of the video blocked to Indian viewers or pulled down, a day after the home minister announced in parliament that he'd pursue an inquiry into how the film-makers secured permission to film inside a jail. Those who managed to view it within that time, would have found it gritty, difficult viewing.
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India's nuclear deal with Australia is all about geopolitics-and only marginally about nuclear sa...

India's nuclear deal with Australia is all about geopolitics-and only marginally about nuclear sa...

Quartz — Australia's civil nuclear deal with India is expected to be signed on Friday night when the prime ministers of both countries meet at a function in New Delhi. And surprisingly, it has less to do with access to large stocks of uranium by a nuclear weapons-enabled country, than it does with bilateral relations. Australia has long been on the outer fringe of India's foreign relations priorities, and its outlier status is occasionally underscored when relatively minor issues flare up, for example perceptions of racism against Indian students in Australia.
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Hundreds of Tamils Have Simply Vanished on the Perilous Sea Voyage to Australia

Hundreds of Tamils Have Simply Vanished on the Perilous Sea Voyage to Australia

Money — Antonyamma, a Tamil refugee from Sri Lanka living in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, last heard from her daughter Mary more than a year ago when the younger woman had boarded a boat heading for Australia, along with seven other members of her family, including four children aged under 9. In total, 63 people from their community were on the same boat, which left the Indian port of Kochi on May 1, 2013. None have been heard from since. "They didn't tell me they were going until they were on the boat, because they knew I'd stop them," said Antonyamma, in between sobs, on the phone from her home in the city of Madurai.
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How India's subsidized farms have created a water crisis

How India's subsidized farms have created a water crisis

Public Radio International — The Indo-Gangetic Basin, which lies at the foothills of the Himalayas, is one of the areas in the world facing a huge water crisis. The Basin spans from Pakistan, across Northern India into Bangladesh. Apart from runoff from mountainous streams and glaciers, it also holds one of the largest underground bodies of water in the world. But it's also in one of the most populous regions of the world, with more than a billion people living on the subcontinent. Still, parts of the region are well-resourced when it comes to water supplies - like the Indian state of Punjab, which has three rivers running through it and a network of canals in some parts.
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As China Eyes Indian Ocean, Japan and India Pair Up on Defense

As China Eyes Indian Ocean, Japan and India Pair Up on Defense

The New York Times — For two days last month, ships from the Indian and Japanese naval forces held joint military exercises in waters off Tokyo. By military standards, the exercises were small in scale. But they were heavy with symbolism and brought to light another facet of the growing relationship between the two countries - defense. Their growing collaboration is expected to lead to tighter cooperation in one of the world's most increasingly important regions, the Indian Ocean. And given the shadow cast by the regional giant that separates the countries, it is a relationship that many observers feel is long overdue.
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Japan and India: Asia's Odd Couple

Japan and India: Asia's Odd Couple

The New York Times — "If Japan and India come together, I'm sure it will strengthen their democratic values and human values." - Gujarat's chief minister, Narendra Modi, during a visit to Tokyo this week. Violence at Maruti Suzuki's plant in Manesar, which is run by the Japanese automaker, has cast a shadow over Suzuki's Indian operations in recent days. But as Narendra Modi's visit to Tokyo highlights, the relationship between India and Japan continues to gain traction. On the face of it, India and Japan make for strange bedfellows. One is neat, efficient and organized; the other is not.
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The school for saris

The school for saris

The Australian — IN one corner, a lithe American woman struggles to tie a knot, her brow knitted in a determined frown. In another, a girl in a black cotton sari with a prominent tattoo on her arm helps a fellow student drape a length of fabric over her shoulder. Elsewhere, two women admire their handiwork in a mirror. They have succeeded in manipulating a long piece of fabric into a single wearable garment. They have mastered the art of the sari.
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Out in the open

Out in the open

The Australian — MY guide, Thinley, tells me: "We Buddhists believe that you must work for the good things in life." We are trudging across a vibrant green paddock dotted with grazing ponies, thickets of pine trees and a gurgling stream. Above us is Bhutan's most popular and recognisable attraction, the Tiger's Nest monastery, or Taktshang Goemba, perched precariously atop a sheer cliff. It's been an arduous five hours climbing through mud and rain. Thinley mentions that the Tiger's Nest burned down and was rebuilt more than a decade ago, and a cable car erected to expedite building materials to the mountaintop was dismantled in 2004.
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Where to Swim in Delhi

Where to Swim in Delhi

The Wall Street Journal — It's 4 a.m., but it appears I'm late: Already a large crowd has amassed outside the gates of the Siri Fort Sports Complex in New Delhi. When I put my name down on the list, I'm at number 187. I find out later that people start queuing here at midnight, even though the gates don't open until 6.30 a.m. Elsewhere in the world, you might see scenes like this for concert tickets, or a leather sofa sale at Ikea. But as summer approaches, in the upscale south of India's capital people queue for a temporary three-month membership to the club - and with it, access to its swimming pool.
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