NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Twenty20 captain Suryakumar Yadav hopes a stint in first class cricket will improve his chances of reclaiming a spot in the test squad. The 33-year-old plays a key role in India’s white-ball squads and took over the T20 captaincy when Rohit Sharma quit the format after leading India to the …
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By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) -Headline inflation impacts Indians directly and should be retained as the target for monetary policy rather than switching to core inflation, external members of the central bank’s rate panel told Reuters. A suggestion was made in the government’s official annual economic report last month to target inflation excluding volatile food …
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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said negotiations were ongoing with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey and Switzerland regarding the second summit on peace in a conversation with Indian journalists shared on his social media on Sunday. Zelenskiy also said he had told India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would support India hosting the second …
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By Jatindra Dash NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The state of Odisha in eastern India has culled more than a thousand chickens after a positive test for the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, a state government official told Reuters on Sunday. The epicentre of the outbreak was in the Puri district, …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI is investigating an Aug. 11 drive-by shooting that targeted a California activist with close ties to Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was fatally shot last year in a killing that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said could be linked to India. In an …
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By Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -India’s Narendra Modi urged President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday to sit down for talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine and offered to act as a friend to help bring peace as the two leaders met in wartime Kyiv. The first visit by an Indian …
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By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – SoftBank-backed Indian food delivery giant Swiggy is targeting a valuation of around $15 billion for its upcoming stock market offering to raise $1-1.2 billion, three people familiar with the matter said. The deal would make it one of biggest Indian initial public offerings this year. Swiggy competes with …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by $4.5 billion and stood at $674.66 billion as of Aug. 16, but were just shy of record highs, data from the Reserve Bank of India showed on Friday. The forex reserves had fallen by $4.8 billion in the previous week, the biggest decline in four months. …
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KYIV (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, senior lawmaker Oleksiy Honcharenko said on Friday. It is the first trip by an Indian prime minister to Ukraine since Kyiv gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Christina Fincher)
By Rishika Sadam and Shivam Patel HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -An explosion at a pharmaceutical factory in southern India on Wednesday, which killed at least 17 people and injured 36, was due to a chemical solvent leak, according to an internal government report accessed by Reuters on Thursday. The blast came around noon at the privately-held …
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