Weak harvest to drive Indian wheat imports to 10-year high

India's wheat imports this season will hit their highest in the decade, thanks to a second successive dryness-depressed harvest - although supplies are not so squeezed as to mean India's government will buy from abroad. India, the world's second-ranked wheat growing country, after China, will import 2.0m tonnes of the grain in 2016-17, on the April-to-March basis, the US Department of Agriculture's New Delhi bureau said.

North by Northeast: What explains the BJP’s stunning win in Assam?

The day after, the architects of the BJP's win in Assam - Himanta Biswa Sarma, Sarbananda Sonowal and national general secretary Ram Madhav. After the drubbing Tarun Gogoi got at the hands of the BJP , the three-term octogenarian chief minister was compared in the local press to Dhritarashtra, the king of Hastinapur who, blind to his son's failings, triggered the Mahabharata.