Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to employ women across villages to test water quality to combat rising challenges, amid scarcity of the resource across India. Women in villages across 256 water-scarce districts will receive training to ensure clean water supplies, Smriti Irani, the federal minister for women & child development, said in Mumbai. The programme will be expanded ...

Bloomberg An insolvency case in a remote city on the Tibetan Plateau shows how in China, most outcomes are better than getting booted out of the stock market. A local court in Qinghai — a huge and sparsely-populated province that’s home to the country’s largest lake — threw a lifeline to Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co when it accepted a ...

Bloomberg Indonesia posted a surprise trade deficit in September as the US-China trade war and a global slowdown continued to weigh on exports in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Exports contracted for an 11th consecutive month, falling 5.7% from a year ago but not as much as the decline of 6.5% forecast in a Bloomberg survey of economists. That resulted in ...