The landlocked northeastern region of India has long faced infrastructural and economic challenges due to its geographical constraints. The Siliguri Corridor, also known as the Chicken's Neck, a narrow strip of land in West Bengal, remains the primary route connecting the northeastern states to the rest of India, making the region vulnerable to bottlenecks and disruptions.
However, two newly proposed economic corridors—the Hili-Mahendraganj Transnational Economic Corridor and the Bhutan-Bodoland-Bay of Bengal (B3) Corridor—hold the potential to revolutionize connectivity, trade, and security in the region.
These corridors, if implemented successfully...
Nader says that the fear caused by President Donald Trump's immigration policies has left the streets of his largely migrant neighbourhood in Queens, New York empty, forcing him to shutter his furniture store.
"It's almost dead out here," said Nader, a Palestinian-American who like others in this article declined to give his full name.
He described his neighbours' trepidation as having contributed to the worst business in his 35 years in the furniture trade.
"I have a lot of customers -- especially from Guatemala -- and nobody is coming to the streets (to) buy furniture," he said, explaining that people fear arrest and deportation.
The main square in Corona, Queens was once a bustling meeting point at the heart of the predominantly Hispanic neighbourhood but is now quiet wit...
