India : Central Bank mandates local storage of all payment systems data (PRIV)
(Parminder Jeet Singh, New Delhi)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) , the country's central bank, on Thursday (5 April) mandated all payment syst em operators to store data within the country by September, according to a rep ort in the Economic Times (Mumbai and Delhi).

United Nations : Ten reflections on today's crisis (PRIV)
(Roberto Savio, Rome)
It is now clearly evident that w e are in a period of transition, even though we remain uncertain as to its outcom e.

Bangladesh : For many migrants, no land is sweeter than home (PRIV)
(IPS, Rangpur)
Most migrants to Europe, Austr alia and the United States from Rangpur in northern Bangladesh leave home at a young age and return when they have just passed middle age.