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Neha Banka
Neha Banka is a journalist based in Kolkata, India. Neha produces longform news reports focusing on a wide range of subjects. She specialises in reporting on the Asia-Pacific with a focus on the Korean Peninsula, and producing original international news reports. She also reports on India's West Bengal state, cross-border issues, migration, climate and environment, public health and indigenous rights, among other subjects. Neha has reported from several countries, with bylines in international publications, as well as The Indian Express.
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No passports, no money: 62 Indians stranded in Sudan ask, ‘how do we exit the country?’Subscriber Only
December 30, 2021 12:07 IST
A few weeks ago, the employees at both RAK Ceramics and Al Masa porcelain factory desperately contacted the Indian embassy in Khartoum, asking for help.
Fri, Dec 31, 2021
Belarus-Poland border crisis has become a roadblock for illegal Indian migrants in EuropeSubscriber Only
December 25, 2021 10:20 IST
🔴 As the Belarus-Poland border crisis tightened, four men from Punjab were stranded after being detained by Poland’s border guards. Neha Banka traces their journey.
Sat, Dec 25, 2021
In Taipei, Indian food makes for good businessSubscriber Only
December 18, 2021 18:09 IST
🔴 Sana Hashmi, a visiting fellow at the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, told indianexpress.com that the popularity of Bollywood films, particularly those starring Aamir Khan, may just have contributed to increasing curiosity and awareness of Indian food in Taiwan.
Sun, Dec 19, 2021
Explained: What Yameen’s acquittal means for India-Maldives relationsSubscriber Only
December 16, 2021 17:32 IST
Former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen's newfound freedom has implications not just for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in the Maldives in 2024, but also for wider Maldives-India relations.
Fri, Dec 17, 2021
Explained: What does South Korea’s end of Korean War comment really meanSubscriber Only
December 14, 2021 20:17 IST
At a joint press conference with Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said North Korea and South Korea, the US and China had agreed to a formal end to the Korean War. What does his announcement mean?
Wed, Dec 15, 2021
Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict has impacted an unlikely group—hundreds of Indian professorsSubscriber Only
December 02, 2021 14:52 IST
While the respect and goodwill cultivated over decades by Indian educators in Ethiopia has remained, the ongoing domestic turbulence has resulted in concerns for the future of the large community of Indian academics in the country and whether they will still be able to contribute to the country’s education system.
Sat, Dec 04, 2021
Finland’s virtual museum to help people cope with Covid-19’s psychological impact
November 28, 2021 11:15 IST
“The idea of this museum is to archive the time, but also to support dealing with this very demanding period, to put words to what has happened and to allow us to share our emotions that we've all been through.”
Sun, Nov 28, 2021
Explained: The importance of India, Maldives and Sri Lanka trilateral exercise ‘Dosti’Subscriber Only
November 24, 2021 16:46 IST
For many years after it was first launched in 1991, these exercises were bilateral, involving the Indian and the Maldives Coast Guards. In 2012, however, Sri Lanka joined these exercises for the first time
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
Explained: Escalation of Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis and its implicationsSubscriber Only
November 10, 2021 22:13 IST
The conflict in Ethiopia had started in November last year, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered a military offensive against rebel forces in the northern region of Tigray.
Thu, Nov 11, 2021
Operation Cactus: How India helped Maldives thwart coup bid backed by Lankan militantsSubscriber Only
November 03, 2021 11:01 IST
On November 3, 1988, a group of Maldivians assisted by a Sri Lankan militant organisation unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government in the island republic of Maldives. We take a look at how the story unfolded.
Thu, Nov 03, 2022
After crackdown on cattle-smuggling, Indo-Bangladesh border sees spike in wildlife traffickingSubscriber Only
October 21, 2021 19:51 IST
Two weeks ago, the BSF in West Bengal’s Nadia district seized straw-necked Ibis that are native to Australia, while a week earlier, they intercepted a consignment with 126 cut-throat finches, native to Africa, and bluish-green Common Grackle, native to North America.
Wed, Oct 27, 2021
In Bangladesh, Durga Puja customs are more traditional, celebrations subdued
October 13, 2021 17:30 IST
Historians trace the origins of Durga Puja in West Bengal to sometime around 1757, in the months after the Battle of Plassey, when Nabakrishna Deb, the head of Sovabazar Rajbari family of Calcutta invited East India Company employee Robert Clive to pay respects and offerings at the feet of the deity. But this might just be half the story
Wed, Oct 13, 2021
In Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’, an insight into desperate lives of South Korea’s South Asian migrant workersSubscriber Only
October 13, 2021 14:13 IST
For many viewers of Netflix's 'Squid Game', Ali and his tragic story have come across as surprising coming from South Korea.
Wed, Oct 13, 2021
Explained: South Korea’s president considers banning dog meat, here is whySubscriber Only
October 04, 2021 15:08 IST
A Reuters report estimated that up to one million dogs are still slaughtered for food annually in South Korea, but the demand for dog meat has considerably declined over the years.
Mon, Oct 04, 2021
South African riots and a town that took to vigilantismSubscriber Only
September 24, 2021 20:49 IST
In July, former president Jacob Zuma’s arrest for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry triggered days of riots, destruction of public and private property and looting in many parts of the country
Mon, Sep 27, 2021
Explained: The significance of India’s $228 million social housing projects in MaldivesSubscriber Only
September 24, 2021 10:11 IST
Severely congested with little scope to expand in the capital, the current Maldives government was prompted to consider decentralisation and the development of other inhabited islands.
Thu, Dec 09, 2021
Streetwise Kolkata: Chandni Chowk’s name could have come from the canopies of its shopsSubscriber Only
September 19, 2021 15:14 IST
Historical records of the city show that Chandni Chowk is among the oldest bazaars of the city, integral to its busy business district.
Sun, Sep 19, 2021
Explained: The importance of North Korea’s first ‘strategic’ cruise missile testSubscriber Only
September 14, 2021 17:36 IST
According to a Popular Science report from 2013, cruise missiles “are fast-moving, guided bombs that soar at a very low trajectory, parallel to the ground".
Wed, Sep 15, 2021
Streetwise Kolkata – Dalhousie Square: Once the British seat of power now a flashback of colonial ruleSubscriber Only
September 12, 2021 17:07 IST
The impact of the city’s struggle to preserve its unique architecture is perhaps nowhere as visible as it is in this neighbourhood.
Sun, Sep 12, 2021
The Malida Platter and other signs of how Jews wove themselves into India cultureSubscriber Only
September 09, 2021 16:18 IST
What really stands out in Ori Z. Soltes’ book are the handful mentions of the Jewish community’s unique culinary traditions that don’t often find mention in reporting on the community.
Fri, Sep 10, 2021
Explained: China’s curbs on its entertainment industrySubscriber Only
September 08, 2021 18:33 IST
Researchers say this move is the latest in a series of steps taken by the Chinese government to regulate and control the entertainment industry and its offshoots like fan culture, excessive spending, online abuse and targeted harassment, etc.
Thu, Sep 09, 2021
Explained: What the signing of $500m India-Maldives mega-infra project meansSubscriber Only
August 26, 2021 23:20 IST
This infrastructure project, the largest-ever by India in the Maldives, involves the construction of a 6.74-km-long bridge and causeway link that will connect the Maldives capital Malé with the neighbouring islands of Villingli, Gulhifalhu and Thilafushi.
Thu, Sep 02, 2021
Explained: ‘Calcutta does not have a birthday’, but it has some markers of urbanisationSubscriber Only
August 24, 2021 14:52 IST
To claim that any city was “founded” on a specific day would mean dismissing early years of settlement. In the case of Calcutta, Charnock did not chance upon barren land because settlements predated his arrival.
Thu, Aug 26, 2021
Streetwise Kolkata | Garden Reach: Where Calcutta’s original elite once built their homesSubscriber Only
August 22, 2021 15:45 IST
A closer reading of Garden Reach indicates that the neighbourhood’s story can be subdivided into smaller histories, of the people and establishments that came here, lived and left.
Sun, Aug 22, 2021
How India’s independence movement influenced Korea’s struggle for freedom from Japanese ruleSubscriber Only
August 15, 2021 11:29 IST
Newspaper clippings from the Korean peninsula under Japanese rule show that Gandhi’s aims of obtaining full independence from British rule through the Non-Cooperation movement that reached its peak in 1921, had an unexpected impact on the Korean independence movement.
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