By John Mehaffey BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) -India swept to a 47-run victory over Afghanistan in their T20 World Cup Super Eight clash after Suryakumar Yadav struck his second successive half-century and Jasprit Bumrah proved his worth with the ball on Thursday. Player-of-the-match Suryakumar’s audacious 53 from 28 balls propelled India to a daunting 181-8. In …
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Reuters) – Jasprit Bumrah demonstrated yet again how crucial he is to India’s fortunes in the T20 World Cup on Thursday, and captain Rohit Sharma said he will need to manage his pace spearhead smartly to get the best out of him. Bumrah conceded only seven runs in his four overs and claimed …
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By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s monsoon is advancing after stalling for more than a week and rains are set to cover central parts of the country in the next few days, bringing relief from the heatwave in the grain-growing northern plains, two senior weather officials said. Summer rains, critical for economic growth in …
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By Romolo Tosiani and Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) -The death of an Indian farm labourer in a gruesome accident in which his right arm was severed by machinery has put a spotlight the conditions of migrant agricultural workers in Italy, whom trade unions say are often employed illegally and exploited. Satnam Singh, 31, died in …
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By Praveen Paramasivam (Reuters) -At least 36 people died and more than 60 were being treated in hospitals after consuming tainted liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a government spokesperson said on Thursday. Since Wednesday over 100 people, suffering from vomiting, stomach ache and diarrhoea, have needed hospital treatment in the Kallakurichi …
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By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The family of an Indian man accused of plotting with an Indian government official to kill a Sikh separatist in the United States wants New Delhi’s help to “get justice”, a source close to the family told Reuters on Thursday. Nikhil Gupta has been accused by U.S. federal …
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By Sahiba Chawdhary and Krishna N. Das PRAYAGRAJ, India (Reuters) – India’s opposition parties and the country’s students have hit out at the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for irregularities in recent government-run tests for college admissions and government teaching jobs. Modi surprisingly lost a parliamentary majority in a general election that ended …
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(Reuters) – An unrelenting heatwave sweeping across northern India has killed at least 52 people in New Delhi, the Times of India reported on Thursday, as the country grappled with record temperatures this summer. At least 52 bodies were brought to hospitals in the past two days, the Times of India said, most of them …
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By Sarupya Ganguly and Pranoy Krishna BENGALURU (Reuters) – Tackling India’s chronic joblessness will be the biggest challenge for the government over the next five years, even as the country remains the world’s fastest-growing major economy, according to policy experts polled by Reuters. Asia’s third-largest economy grew more than 8% last fiscal year, driven by …
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By Vivek Mishra and Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Indian economy is likely to remain the fastest-growing major one in coming years, but a majority of independent economists and policy experts polled by Reuters are not confident it will make any difference in narrowing stark economic inequality. Despite over 8% economic growth last fiscal …
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