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By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India and the United States on Monday committed to action to address barriers to bilateral strategic trade, technology and industrial cooperation. The commitment was made at a meeting between the national security advisers of the two countries, Ajit Doval and Jake Sullivan, during Sullivan’s two-day visit to New Delhi. …

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By Krishna N. Das and Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian cities have become “heat traps” due to their unbalanced growth devouring water bodies and increasing greenhouse emissions, a senior government official said on Monday, as a scorching summer killed dozens in some parts of the country. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast …

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By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A power outage lasting several minutes at India’s busiest airport in Delhi caused minor disruptions to some services within the terminal on Monday, airport management said. “Voltage imbalance from the Delhi Transco Limited (DTL) grid briefly impacted all IGI terminals, affecting baggage acceptance and e-gates,” a spokesperson for …

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By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s western state of Rajasthan has started recalling some batches of popular MDH and Everest spices, which were found to be unsafe for consumption, a top official said, the latest in growing domestic and global scrutiny of the brands. Rajasthan told the federal government in a letter it …

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By M. Sriram MUMBAI (Reuters) -Vodafone Group is looking to sell its entire $2.3 billion stake in India’s Indus Towers through stock market block deals next week, two sources with direct knowledge said, as part of the British firm’s effort to repay debt. Vodafone owns 21.5% of mobile-tower operator Indus via various group entities. As …

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By Bharath Rajeswaran and Kashish Tandon BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares logged record closing highs for a second straight session on Friday, driven by state-run companies and energy stocks on hopes of continued capital expenditure spending by the new government. The NSE Nifty 50 settled 0.29% higher at 23,465.60, while the S&P BSE Sensex added 0.24% …

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By Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee closed nearly unchanged on Friday as intervention from the Indian central bank prevented it from hitting a lifetime low even as a broadly stronger dollar pressured most Asian currencies. The rupee closed at 83.5550 against the U.S. dollar, barely changed from its close at 83.5425 in …

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By Jose Devasia THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) – The bodies of 45 Indians who died in a fire in a labour housing facility in Kuwait were flown to India on Friday, as bereaved relatives and experts urged New Delhi to do more to protect the lives of those who work abroad and send remittances home. An …

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By Shivam Patel, Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican Representative Michael McCaul is expected to lead a bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation to India in the coming days, where he and other lawmakers, including Democratic former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, plan to meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. McCaul, Pelosi and …

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