By Aditya Kalra, Munsif Vengattil and Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An AI video shows an ecstatic Narendra Modi sporting a trendy jacket and trousers, grooving on a stage to a Bollywood song as the crowd cheers. The Indian prime minister reshared the video on X, saying “such creativity in peak poll season is …
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By Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India granted citizenship on Wednesday to a first batch of 14 people under a controversial law that has been criticised for discriminating against Muslims, midway through general elections in which religious divisions have taken centre stage. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) grants citizenship to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Wednesday it was working to repatriate the body of a former Indian Army officer serving as a U.N. staffer, who was killed in Gaza when his vehicle was hit by what the U.N. said was tank fire in Rafah where only Israeli tanks are present. The staffer, Waibhav …
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By Hritam Mukherjee and Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares closed lower on Wednesday, dragged by top private lender HDFC Bank and consumer stocks, while investors buckled up for a highly awaited U.S. inflation print. The blue-chip NSE Nifty 50 fell 0.08% to 22,200.55 points, while the S&P BSE Sensex settled 0.16% lower at 72,987.03. …
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(Corrects to read ‘global fixed income ETF space’ (not ‘global ETF space’), paragraph 4) By Dharamraj Dhutia MUMBAI (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc, the world’s largest fund manager, is looking to raise its share in India’s $500 billion pool of fully investible government bonds via recently launched exchange traded funds (ETFs), a fixed income strategist at …
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By Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee was mildly stronger on Wednesday, aided by gains in most Asian currencies ahead of a key U.S. inflation report which is expected to influence investor expectations of when the Federal Reserve will begin to cut policy rates. The rupee was at 83.49 against the U.S. dollar …
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By Hemanshi Kamani and Shilpa Jamkhandikar MUMBAI (Reuters) -Rescue workers used excavators to clear mangled metal debris in their final search for survivors trapped underneath a billboard that collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, killing at least 14 people. The billboard, bigger than an Olympic-sized swimming pool, crushed a fuel station, homes and cars …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s Apollo Tyres Ltd reported a lower profit for the fourth quarter on Tuesday, hurt by increased tax expenses. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT Apollo Tyres, which manufactures tyres for Maruti Suzuki, Mahindra and Mahindra and TVS Motor Company Ltd among others, is one of the major players in the sector, which has a …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended himself against criticism that he is stoking divisions between Hindus and Muslims to win national elections as he filed his nomination on Tuesday for re-election from one of Hinduism’s holiest cities. India began voting April 19 in the seven-phase election in which …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel reported fourth-quarter revenue below expectations on Tuesday, hurt by currency devaluation in Africa. India’s second-ranked telecom carrier by subscribers said consolidated revenue from operations rose 4.4% to 375.99 billion rupees ($4.5 billion) for the three months to March 31, missing analysts’ average estimates of 388.49 billion rupees, as …
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