archana shukla, bbc news, mumbai.eone that you might recognise, take a look and you might be wondering, what is she up to now? in her latest business adventure, she is up to something sticky and sweet. the duchess of sussex has revealed a line of strawberryjam, she appeared to have shed the treat with friends and influences who posted about it on instagram. that said for today's edition of asia business report. i will see you again same time tomorrow. hiya. i'm betty. and this is the catch up. tonight, a complete smoking ban in the uk, the olympic flame, and an all—female ultramarathon. first up, mps have been debating a new law which would effectively ban smoking in the uk. they voted in favour of the ban earlier, but they'll need to vote once more to make it law. the plan is being proposed by the prime minister, rishi sunak, and would mean that each year the legal age for cigarette sales would increase. so if you're born in or after 2009, you'd never be able to legally buy cigarettes. smoking rates in older teens ar

archana shukla, bbc news, mumbai.land's prime minister has wrapped up his first official visit to singapore and will be spending the rest of his asia tour in thailand and the philippines. i caught up with the —— christopher luxon who told me about the outlook of the�*s economy. we who told me about the outlook of the's economy.— who told me about the outlook of the's economy. we have been deafinu of the's economy. we have been dealing with _ of the's economy. we have been dealing with some _ of the's economy. we have been dealing with some challenging . dealing with some challenging local economic at home where we have had government spending out of control and high level of inflation that's slowed our economic growth down and obviously, it puts at risk level of one lemon but even in the 150 days also set up we are making great progress on getting to the root cause which is lowering inflation so that we can lower interest rates, grow the economy and can lower interest rates, grow the economy and key people we actually

archana shukla, bbc news, mumbai.'s prime minister christopher luxon has wrapped up his first official visit to singapore and will be spending the rest of his asia tour in thailand, and the philippines. i caught up with the prime minister and asked if he is concerned about brain drain — as latest figures showed a record annual loss of 117,000 new zealand citizens half of whom relocated to neighbouring australia for better prospects. so that we can lower interest rates, grow the economy and keep up in employment. the exciting thing is how we grow our economy and take it forward from here the stop that is the of why we are traveling through the region, we think we can do the region, we think we can do the over exports in the next ten years, i checked foreign investment to new zealand to support some of the investment and infrastructure we want to make. i think we have an exciting future. yes, some short—term problems to work through, i run cost—of—living and inflation, you see that story in other countries around the wo

archana shukla has been number crunching. 970 million indian voters decide on who runs the country for the next five years. the scale and magnitude of this election bigger than ever before. 5.5 million electronic voting machines, 15 million polling officers, and a million polling stations. indian elections are the most expensive in the world. more than $8 billion were spent in 2019 general elections, and this year the numbers are expected to double. interestingly, the cost of conducting elections isjust 15% to 20% of this figure. the rest spent on political campaigning more than ever. political parties are flush with cash, mainly through something called electoral bonds, a controversial scheme that allowed for people and companies to donate anonymously to political parties. $2 billion were raised through these bonds until february, when supreme court banned them. more than half the proceeds went to prime minister modi's ruling bjp party, making them the richest political party going into elections. this election is nothing bu

archana shukla has been crunching the numbers.ho runs the country for the next five years. the scale and magnitude of this election — bigger than ever before. 5.5 million electronic voting machines, 15 million polling officers, and a million polling stations in internal elections are the most expensive in the world. —— indian elections are the most expensive in the world. more than $8 billion were spent in 2019 general elections, and this year the numbers are expected to double. interestingly, the cost of conducting elections isjust 15 to 20% of this figure. the rest spent on political campaigning. more than ever, political parties are flush with cash, mainly through something called electoral bonds, a controversial scheme that allowed for people and companies to donate anonymously to political parties. $2 billion were raised through these bonds until february, when supreme court banned them. more than half the proceeds went to prime minister modi's ruling bjp party, making them the richest political party going into elections. th