By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – At least two people were killed and 20 injured after several coaches of a passenger train jumped the tracks in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, authorities said. TV visuals showed coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express, which connects India’s northern states to the eastern state of …
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BENGALURU – India’s Tata Communications reported its tenth straight rise in quarterly revenue on Thursday, helped by growth in its digital portfolio segment. The Tata Group-owned company’s revenue rose 18% to 56.33 billion rupees ($673.4 million) for the three months ended June 30. Tata Communications provides services such as data connections and cybersecurity to enterprises. …
By Rishika Sadam and Krishna N. Das HYDERABAD (Reuters) – Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, has a great-aunt in southern India, aged 96, celebrated in local media as the country’s oldest active professor. Academic achievement marks the family of U.S.-born Vance, notably Shanthamma Chilukuri, who still travels 60 …
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By Vivek Mishra and Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) -The Indian government remains committed to upholding pre-election borrowing and spending targets in the July 23 budget, despite the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing its majority in this year’s national vote, a Reuters poll found. While relying on some regional parties to form the government, the …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -At least nine of the 16-member crew of a Comoros-flagged oil tanker that capsized off Oman on Monday have been rescued while one was found dead, officials said on Wednesday, two days after the incident was first reported. The “Prestige Falcon”, a 117-metre oil product tanker, was heading to the Yemeni port …
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By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian education technology company Byju’s will challenge insolvency proceedings initiated against it in an attempt to block the process this week, as the startup once valued at $22 billion tries to tide over the crisis, two sources said on Wednesday. The National Company Law Tribunal in the southern state …
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By Ainnie Arif NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Hindu group that marks Donald Trump’s birthday each year in Delhi offered prayers for his safety on Tuesday following the assassination attempt on him, saying he is the only leader who could rid the world of “radical Islam”. Attended by almost 50 people, the ceremony performed by …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) is proposing a new asset class that allows investors to take on higher risk through a regulated product, the Indian market regulator said in a consultation paper released on Tuesday. The asset class would fall between mutual funds meant for retail investors and portfolio …
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By Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Taiwan firms are shifting supply chains to India from China, as Taipei and New Delhi strengthen economic ties, the head of the island’s key trade body told Reuters, as global trade tension rises among major economies. Trade conflict between the United States and China drove up Taiwan’s foreign …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) – A militant attack on an Indian Army patrol in Jammu and Kashmir killed four soldiers, including an officer, the army said on Tuesday, the latest incident of violence in the Hindu-dominated part of the troubled Himalayan region. The deaths take to 11 this year’s tally of Indian soldiers killed …
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