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Bata India is in talks with Adidas for a strategic partnership that could likely boost the German sportswear maker's presence in the south Asian country, CNBC-TV18 reported on Thursday.

The city of Mirpur, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, is known as "Little England" due to its large British Pakistani community. So what is life like for the city's many expats? Mirpur's ...