(Reuters) -India captain Suryakumar Yadav once again chose not to shake hands with Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha at the toss ahead of their Asia Cup match on Sunday, as animosity between the bitter rivals rumbled on at the eight-team tournament. The Asia Cup has been dominated by headlines about India and Pakistan’s first meetings …
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(Reuters) -India’s players need to block out the noise as they prepare to again face rivals Pakistan in the Asia Cup amid controversy over their previous clash, skipper Suryakumar Yadav said on Saturday. The eight-team tournament has been dominated by headlines about India and Pakistan’s first meetings on the pitch since the military conflict between …
By Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi and Ricardo Brito NEW DELHI/BRASILIA (Reuters) – This is a story about a bird and a family. But this is no ordinary bird, and this is no ordinary family. Spix’s macaw, a vivid-blue parrot with elaborate mating rituals, was declared extinct in the wild in 2019. A captive-breeding program has …
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By David Dolan TOKYO (Reuters) -Neeraj Chopra’s return to the site of his Olympic triumph turned into a painful reality check on Thursday as he finished a dismal eighth in the men’s javelin at the world championships in Tokyo after secretly battling a back injury for weeks. Competing in the same arena where he claimed …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The U.S. embassy in New Delhi has revoked and subsequently denied visas for some Indian business executives and corporate leaders based on their involvement in trafficking fentanyl precursors, the embassy said in a statement on Thursday. Fentanyl precursors refer to the basic or parent chemicals that form fentanyl, a leading cause …
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(Reuters) -An increase in cases of a rare but fatal form of encephalitis has put authorities in India’s southern state of Kerala on alert, forcing them to step up testing to address what they say is a serious public health challenge. Kerala has reported around 69 cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) since the beginning …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Pakistan captain Salman Agha said his team were ready to face India in the next round of the Asia Cup on Sunday after last week’s group-stage match between the arch-rivals ended in acrimony when the Indian side refused to shake hands. Pakistan beat United Arab Emirates in their final Group A game on …
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By Ashitha Shivaprasad and Anjana Anil (Reuters) – Gold prices fell nearly 1% on Wednesday, retreating from a record high scaled earlier in the session, as market participants parsed remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Spot gold was down 0.9% at $3,658.25 per ounce, as of 3:11 pm EDT (1911 GMT), after hitting a …
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(Reuters) – The chairman of India’s markets regulator said on Wednesday it will engage with the government to enable banks and pension funds to trade commodities as part of the regulator’s agenda to strengthen commodities markets. The Securities and Exchange Board is considering allowing Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) to trade in non-cash settled, non-agricultural derivatives …
(Reuters) -Landslides and heavy rain in India’s Himalayan state of Uttarakhand killed at least 15 people on Tuesday, with 16 missing, Indian media reported on Wednesday. Visuals showed muddy water gushing through the town of Sahastradhara in the district of Dehradun on Tuesday, leaving destroyed shops, roads and houses, as people cowered behind walls. “My …
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