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(Corrects first name of minister in first paragraph to Ashwini) NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s cyber security agency is investigating complaints of mobile phone hacking by senior opposition politicians who reported receiving warning messages from Apple, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. Vaishnaw was quoted in the Indian Express newspaper as saying on Thursday that …

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(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with their Indian counterparts later this month in New Delhi to discuss “concerns and developments in the Indo-Pacific”, the State Department said on Wednesday. The meeting with India’s foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and the country’s defense minister Rajnath Singh comes …

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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will still be without injured vice-captain Hardik Pandya for Thursday’s World Cup match against Sri Lanka, captain Rohit Sharma said, adding that the all-rounder’s recovery from an ankle injury was going well. Pandya was hurt as he tried to stop a shot with his foot off his own bowling during the …

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By Hritam Mukherjee BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s Ambuja Cements on Wednesday missed quarterly revenue estimates after higher prices damped sales volumes. Revenue from operations grew 8% to 39.7 billion rupees ($476.8 million) for the three months ended Sept. 30, but fell short of analysts’ estimate of 41.43 billion rupees, according to LSEG data. Despite infrastructure and …

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By Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Apple, Dell, HP, Samsung and Lenovo are among 110 firms authorised by India to import laptops, tablets and personal computers under a new system aimed at monitoring shipments, two government sources said. Acer, Xiaomi, IBM and ASUS have also been issued import authorisations, the two sources said, under …

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BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s Hero MotoCorp on Wednesday beat second-quarter profit expectations, as lower commodity costs and price hikes helped offset muted sales. Hero’s standalone profit after tax rose 47.2% to 10.54 billion rupees ($126.6 million) in the July-September quarter, beating analysts’ average expectation of 9.69 billion rupees as per LSEG data. The New Delhi-based company’s …

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By Nandan Mandayam BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian two-wheeler makers’ sales to dealers inched closer to pre-pandemic volumes in October due to strong festive demand and discounts on entry-level models, data published by companies showed on Wednesday. Indians generally make big-ticket purchases, including vehicles, during the festive period, which runs from mid-October to mid-November this year. …

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By Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee is likely to break out of rangebound trade, as the Reserve Bank of India’s defence of the currency will be unsustainable at some point of time, traders said. The rupee was at 83.27 against the U.S. dollar at 11:08 a.m. IST, slightly weaker than 83.25 in …

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