By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has imposed limits on wheat stocks that traders can hold, and it may abolish or trim the import tax on the grain to keep prices low, a senior government official told reporters on Monday. Wheat prices in India, the world’s second-biggest producer of the grain, have been …
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By M. Sriram MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian health insurer Niva Bupa is planning to raise $360 million in an IPO, potentially valuing the business at up to $2.5 billion, according to two sources and a document seen by Reuters, the latest company to cash in on a stock market surge. British United Provident Association (Bupa), …
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By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Thousands of people have been displaced in India’s north-eastern state of Assam and at least 37 people have died in heavy rain, floods and landslides in the last two months, officials said on Monday. Although rains have abated in the last two days and improved the flood situation …
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(Reuters) – India inched closer to a semi-final berth in the T20 World Cup following their comprehensive 50-run victory against Bangladesh in a Super Eight Group 1 contest on Saturday. All-rounder Hardik Pandya smashed a 27-ball fifty as India posted 196-5, their highest score in what has been a low-scoring tournament so far, at the …
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By Praveen Paramasivam NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The death toll has climbed to 54 from consumption of tainted liquor in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, with more than 100 people still in hospital, a government official said on Saturday. Nearly 200 people have been treated since Wednesday for vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhoea, after …
By Praveen Paramasivam (Reuters) – The death toll from the latest case of tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has climbed to 47, with over 100 people still in hospital, a government official said on Friday. Since Wednesday more than 150 people, suffering from vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhoea, have needed …
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By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) – New Delhi is in touch with the family of an Indian man who is accused of plotting with an Indian government official to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States, the foreign ministry said on Friday in reaction to a Reuters report. Nikhil Gupta, extradited to the …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s foreign ministry said peace on its border with China was critical for relations to become normal, reacting on Friday to a Reuters report that New Delhi was not keen to restart direct flights with China amid a stand-off on their Himalayan frontier. China has been pressing India to restart direct …
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By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India opposition leader and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by a city court in a graft case on Thursday, his party and lawyers said, following national elections in which opposition groups fared better than expected. India’s financial-crime fighting agency arrested Kejriwal in March in connection …
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By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a policy conundrum after losing ground in the recent election: how to control food inflation without resorting to export curbs and more imports – steps that have angered farmers, a sizeable voting bloc. While Modi managed to retain power …
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