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A minute is always 60 seconds. But it rarely feels that way for Kavitha, 40, selling fish under an unforgiving sun. By seven each morning, she has to arrange the day’s catch neatly on a small table at Chennai’s bustling Nochikuppam fish market, one of the city’s fishing hamlets tucked between the Marina Loop Road…
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Mumbai: For nearly 700 years, the Koli community in Mumbai has been making its subsistence from fishing, the Arabian Sea offering an abundance of piscine riches to enable it to do so. Today, however, the Kolis – who are an indigenous community in India’s financial capital – are having to venture farther and farther into…
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February 26, 2024 11:59 am | Updated 11:59 am IST – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates The world’s trade Ministers gathered in the U.A.E. on February 26 for a high-level WTO meeting with no clear prospects for breakthroughs, amid geopolitical tensions and disagreements. The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) 13th ministerial conference (MC13), scheduled to run…
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