By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Revenge will fuel Gujarat Titans’ title defence when they clash with four-time winners Chennai Super Kings in Sunday’s Indian Premier League (IPL) final in Ahmedabad. Gujarat, who won the title in their debut season last year, topped the group stage this season but went down to Mahendra Singh …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Shubman Gill smashed an incendiary 129 off 60 balls to send Gujarat Titans into the final of the Indian Premier League (IPL) following their 62-run victory against Mumbai Indians in Ahmedabad on Friday. The opener smashed 10 sixes and seven fours in his breathtaking knock to help champions Gujarat rack up …
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By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The European Union has assured New Delhi it will hold two-way talks to tackle its concerns over tariffs proposed on imports of high-carbon goods such as steel and iron ore from India, the bloc’s climate policy chief said on Friday. Last month, the 27-nation EU approved the world’s …
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By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) -India is likely to receive a normal amount of monsoon rain in 2023 despite the likely emergence of the El Nino weather phenomenon, the state-run weather office said on Friday, the fifth year of normal or above-normal summer rain. The monsoon is the lifeblood of the …
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By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a new parliament complex on Sunday, the centrepiece of a $2.4 billion project that aims to remake British colonial-era buildings in the capital’s centre and give it a distinct Indian identity. The inauguration, and the ongoing makeover of the heart of New …
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By Vivek Mishra and Shaloo Shrivastava BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s economy will grow about 6% this fiscal year with a small increase in private investment, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said lower growth and high inflation were the biggest risks to the outlook. While that was expected to be faster than other …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s MedPlus Health Services reported a two-fold surge in fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, driven by strong sales in its key retail segment. The omnichannel retail pharmacy said its consolidated net profit rose to 265.8 million rupees ($3.21 million) for the quarter ended March 31, from 117.3 million rupees a year ago. The …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian state-run oil exploration companies are in talks with Tullow Oil to buy a stake in the London-based firm’s block in Kenya, Oil India Chairman Ranjit Rath said on Thursday. Oil India, along with ONGC Videsh, the overseas investment arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, are talking to Tullow, Rath …
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(This May 24 story has been corrected to say 1.9 billion people, instead of trillion, in paragraph 2) By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Climate-related disruptions to the crucial Hindu Kush-Himalayan water system are posing risks to economic development and energy security in 16 Asian countries, and concerted action is needed to protect regional water …
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(This May 23 story has been corrected to say that 6% of contract workers, not 60,000, lost their jobs, in the headline and paragraph 1) By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nearly six percent of outsourced contract workers lost jobs in India’s information technology sector in the January-March period compared to the previous quarter …
