By Tanvi Mehta NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Overnight rain in New Delhi and its suburbs brought some relief to the Indian capital on Friday, where authorities were considering seeding clouds to improve the toxic air gripping the city. The city, which was the most polluted in the world until Thursday, saw its air quality index (AQI) …
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By YP Rajesh NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nafis Ansari, a school principal who is Muslim, was enlisted this year by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a “Modi Mitr”, or friend of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The resident of the central state of Madhya Pradesh promotes the party to neighbours and …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian scientists plan to seed clouds for the first time to trigger heavy rain in some areas of New Delhi, hoping this will be enough to tackle the smog gripping the world’s most polluted capital for a week, the project’s head said on Thursday. Air quality dips in Delhi …
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By Shrivathsa Sridhar BENGALURU (Reuters) – New Zealand will relish a semi-final clash with India after they thumped 1996 champions Sri Lanka by five wickets to put one foot in the knockout stage of the World Cup, seamer Trent Boult said on Thursday. Boult bagged 3-37 to help restrict Sri Lanka to 171 before New …
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(Reuters) – ABB India posted an 84% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, as the technology company was helped by higher order wins in its key electrification and automation segments. The Indian arm of Swedish-Swiss ABB Ltd said its profit jumped to 3.63 billion rupees ($43.60 million) in the quarter ended Sept. 30 from 1.98 …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s Ashok Leyland Ltd reported a smaller-than-expected second-quarter profit on Thursday as rising costs offset strong demand for its trucks and buses. Standalone profit for the three months ended September rose over two-fold to 5.61 billion rupees ($67.36 million), but fell short of analysts expectations of 6.28 billion rupees, per LSEG data. …
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By Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee traded in a narrow band and closed little-changed on Thursday as likely intervention from the Reserve Bank of India limited losses in the currency. The rupee ended at 83.28 against the U.S. dollar, compared with its close at 83.2725 in the previous session. It remained in …
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By Milounee Purohit and Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – The pace of India’s consumer price inflation likely eased further to a four-month low of 4.80% in October, closer to the Reserve Bank of India’s 4% medium-term target, according to a Reuters poll. Volatile food prices, which make up about half of the consumer price index …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s largest private port operator Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone on Thursday reported a miniscule 4.2% rise in second-quarter profit as higher expenses and tax curtailed the impact of a jump in cargo volumes. The company, which is part of billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate, said its consolidated net profit rose to …
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By Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) -New Delhi plans for the first time to make rain to try improve air quality in the city, which is the world’s most polluted capital and has been gripped by smog for a week. The city has already shut all schools, stopped construction activities, and said it will impose …
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