By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Randhir Singh was elected president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on Sunday for a four-year term, becoming the first Indian to assume the post. The 77-year-old has been the OCA acting president since 2021, filling in for Kuwait’s Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who was handed a …
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(Reuters) – India had recorded a suspected case of mpox found in a man who recently travelled from a country suffering an outbreak of the virus, the health ministry said on Sunday. The patient has been isolated in a hospital and is in a table condition, the ministry said. The ministry did not specify which …
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By Alexander Cornwell and Shivangi Acharya DUBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian and Emirati officials are expected to review their trade agreement this week amid concerns raised by Indian industry over a sharp increase in imports of precious metals from the United Arab Emirates, people familiar with the matter said. India and the UAE signed the …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) -A bomb threat that forced a flight operated by India’s Vistara Airlines to make an emergency landing in the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum on Friday was false, the local governor said. Turkish officials had said a piece of paper with “bomb on board” written on it was found in a lavatory on …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian electric vehicle maker Wardwizard Innovations and Mobility announced on Friday it received a letter of intent to form a joint venture in Saudi Arabia, aiming to establish an assembly plant and an EV cell plant in the kingdom. The assembly plant will initially focus on producing electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers and four-wheelers, …
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(Reuters) – Former India captain and coach Rahul Dravid has been appointed Rajasthan Royals’ head coach on a multi-year contract ahead of the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL) season, the IPL franchise said on Friday. Dravid will begin his tenure immediately, working with the team’s Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara. The 51-year-old will return to …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s foreign exchange reserves rose for a third straight week to a record high of $683.99 billion as of Aug. 30, data from the Reserve Bank of India showed on Friday. The reserves rose by $2.3 billion in the reporting week, after having risen by a total of $11.6 billion in the …
Sept 6 (Reuters) – The Indian government had no outstanding loans with the central bank under ways and means advances in the week ended Aug. 30, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s weekly statistical supplement released on Friday. The central government had no outstanding loans in the week earlier as well. State governments had …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Olympic wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia joined the opposition Congress party on Friday, entering politics a year after protesting against the chief of the sport’s governing body in India over alleged sexual harassment. The move came weeks after Phogat’s emotional return home last month from the …
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By Arpan Chaturvedi and Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s main opposition Congress party set up a new internal group this week to promote LGBTQ+ rights, while another party has named a person from the community as its spokesperson, in the first such political recognition after many setbacks. The Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality in …
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