By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Neeraj Chopra is keen to join javelin’s elite 90-metre club but will happily settle for a shorter throw in Paris if it proves enough for him to hold on to his Olympic title, his coach told Reuters. The mop-haired Chopra catapulted himself into instant stardom three years …
BENGALURU (Reuters) – Royal Challengers Bengaluru have dragged themselves back into the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoff race after their early season struggles and skipper Faf du Plessis believes a bolder approach in recent matches had sparked their revival. After losing seven of their first eight matches, Bengaluru embarked on a superb five-match winning spree, …
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TORONTO (Reuters) – A fourth person has been arrested and charged with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year, Canadian police said on Saturday, in a case that strained diplomatic relations with India. Canadian police earlier this month arrested and charged three Indian men in the city of Edmonton in Alberta …
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By Sakshi Dayal and YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s top court gave temporary bail to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case on Friday, allowing him to campaign in the ongoing general elections, boosting the opposition alliance of which he is a prominent figure. The Supreme Court said Kejriwal – a fierce …
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By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s opposition said the nation’s election commission was allowing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to continue “unchecked and brazen” violations by not taking action on opposition complaints of religious hate speech and misrepresentation. More than halfway through India’s six-week national elections, the world’s biggest, the Congress party-led opposition complained …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India have never won an Olympic medal in archery, but celebrated coach Kim Hyung Tak will not be surprised if they break the duck in Paris. Between 2004 and 2020, India’s men’s, women’s and mixed teams made the quarter-finals six times but could not secure a podium finish. …
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By Arpan Chaturvedi and Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Delhi court on Friday informed the ex-chief of India’s wrestling federation, a powerful member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, of charges of sexual harassment and criminal intimidation against him. Several Indian wrestlers came out in protest last year seeking criminal action against Brij …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Opposition leaders in India’s troubled Kashmir valley have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration of denying or cancelling permissions to hold campaign events, to help his party’s “proxies”. Omar Abdullah, a leader of the largest regional political party, the National Conference, said Modi’s government was trying to sabotage …
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BENGALURU – India’s Thermax reported a higher fourth-profit on Friday, helped by strong demand for its products. The industrial machines maker reported a consolidated net profit of 1.88 billion rupees ($22.5 million) in the quarter ended March 31, up 20.5% from last year and in line with analysts’ estimates of 1.87 billion rupees, as per …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s foreign exchange reserves halted a three-week losing streak and stood at $641.59 billion as of May 3, coming off seven-week lows, data from the central bank showed on Friday. The reserves rose by $3.7 billion in the reporting week, the biggest gain in nearly two months. They had fallen by a …
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