(Reuters) – India’s climate-focused venture capital firm Avaana Capital said on Wednesday it raised $70 million in its first funding round as it looks to invest in the clean energy and climate-technology space. This is the first close in the Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund, India’s first tech-led climate fund, meaning it can start investing …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Dozens of U.S. President Joe Biden’s fellow Democrats urged him on Tuesday to raise human rights issues with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Washington this week, according to a letter sent to Biden. Modi left for Washington on Tuesday for a visit projected as a milestone …
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By Sunil Kataria CUTTACK, India (Reuters) – Even in today’s world of instant messaging, video calls, the internet and mobile telephones, police in India’s eastern state of Odisha are preserving a flock of carrier pigeons for use when disasters sever communication links. Dating from the days of British colonial rule when police stations used the …
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By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s stalled monsoon is likely to gain momentum in the next three to four days and could cover key rice, soybean, cotton and sugar cane growing region in the southern, central and western states, weather officials said on Tuesday. The monsoon, the lifeblood of India’s …
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By Krishn Kaushik, Sarita Chaganti Singh and David Brunnstrom NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the United States this week for a visit billed as a turning point for bilateral relations, with deeper cooperation in defence industry and sharing high technology in sharp focus. The visit is expected to give India …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief called on Monday for greater support for his office as he seeks to expand its work by establishing a first-time presence in the world’s two most populous countries India and China, whose rights records are drawing more scrutiny. The U.N. human rights office, established after …
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By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – At least 54 people died in a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over the last few days, the Times of India newspaper reported on Monday, as authorities probed if the loss of lives was due to the heat wave in the region. Another 45 …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to the leaders of the G20 nations proposing the African Union be given full, permanent membership of the diplomatic group at its upcoming summit in India, an official source said. Modi’s proposal to grant the African Union full membership in the G20 demonstrates India’s …
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By Zarir Hussain GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Indian authorities said on Sunday they had started to relax a curfew imposed in violence-hit Manipur after 45 days of civil unrest in the north-east state, seeking to reduce anger spilling onto the streets and restore normalcy. “We have decided to remove curfew from 5 am until 5 …
By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD (Reuters) – Some 1,500 villages were still without electricity in India’s western state of Gujarat, officials said on Saturday, as coastal areas recovered from the impact of this week’s cyclone Biparjoy. That was down from initial outages in more than 4,600 villages in Saurashtra and Kutch, where the cyclone made landfall …
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