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Cricket-Chennai keen to help Ruturaj ease into captaincy, says coach Fleming

(Reuters) – Senior Chennai Super Kings players will help new skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad settle into his role as Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s successor but there may be a period of trial and error during the Indian Premier League (IPL) season, head coach Stephen Fleming said. The five-times champions begin their 2024 campaign against Royal Challengers Bengaluru …

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Cricket-Dhoni relinquishes captaincy as Chennai gear up for IPL defence

By Shrivathsa Sridhar BENGALURU (Reuters) -Chennai Super Kings will launch their Indian Premier League (IPL) title defence against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in what could be Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s final year in the lucrative Twenty20 competition after he stepped down as captain on Thursday. Dhoni played his last international in 2019 but remains one of the …

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India’s Congress accuses Modi of ‘crippling’ it ahead of elections with tax case

MUMBAI (Reuters) -India’s main opposition Congress party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday of crippling it before the upcoming general election by freezing its accounts in an income tax case. A part of the Congress’ bank accounts was frozen last month pending a tax case that dates back to 2018-19, the party has said …

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India finds rogue officials involved in US murder plot, Bloomberg reports

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian investigation has found that rogue officials, not authorised by the government, were involved in a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist leader in the United States, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. The report, citing unnamed senior officials, said at least one person directly involved in the alleged plot …

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India’s Modi speaks to Putin, Zelenskiy ahead of top Ukraine minister’s visit

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held separate phone calls on Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy and discussed strengthening ties with both, ahead of a visit by the Ukrainian foreign minister to New Delhi. India has traditionally had close economic and defence ties with Moscow and has …

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India markets regulator exempts some offshore funds from disclosing investors

(Reuters) – India’s markets regulator has exempted offshore funds from naming their investors under certain circumstances, it said on Wednesday, partly easing the disclosure rules it put in place last year. Any offshore funds with more than 50% of its assets in a group of companies will not have to disclose its investors if the …

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Boeing deliveries on track as India’s Akasa goes international, CEO says

By Aditya Kalra and Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Akasa Air is confident that deliveries of its ordered Boeing 737 MAX jets will be on time, its CEO said, despite concerns over the U.S. planemaker’s production schedule for 737s amid intense scrutiny after a mid-air incident this year. India’s newest airline in January …

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India’s richest 1% has highest concentration of wealth in decades, study shows

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The wealth concentrated in the richest 1% of India’s population is at its highest in six decades and the percentage share of income exceeds that of countries including Brazil and the United States, research group the World Inequality Lab found. Since India, which won its independence in 1947 from Britain, opened …

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India’s Zomato scraps green uniform idea for vegetarian deliveries after criticism

By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s largest food delivery firm Zomato on Wednesday ditched plans for green uniforms for a new vegetarian-only service, citing concerns the country’s vast vegetarian population might then shun its regular service. The decision was taken less than 24 hours after Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal announced a green-coloured “Pure …

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Stubbornly high food prices slowing drop in India’s inflation to 4%, cenbank says

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Price pressures in India are ebbing but temporary spikes in food prices are curtailing a swifter fall in headline inflation towards the central bank’s 4% target, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in its March bulletin released on Tuesday. “Inflation is on the ebb; the steady decline in core inflation would …

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