(Reuters) – Steve Smith will captain Australia in the fourth and final test against India starting on Thursday as regular captain Pat Cummins remains in Sydney with his family, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday. Cummins returned home after the second test in New Delhi to be with his ailing mother after Australia had dropped …
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(Reuters) – Russia is working on easing visa procedures for six countries, including India, Syria and Indonesia, the state TASS news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Evgeny Ivanov as saying on Sunday. “In addition to India (procedures simplification) … is being worked out with Angola, Vietnam, Indonesia, Syria and Philippines,” Ivanov said. Earlier, Ivanov said …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Planning a trip to see the fifth day of a test match anywhere in the world is a sign of unbridled optimism, but do so in India at the moment and you might find people questioning your sanity. Each of the first three matches in India’s series against …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) -The inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) kicked off on Saturday with the Mumbai Indians thrashing the Gujarat Giants by a massive margin of 143 runs. India and Mumbai captain Harmanpreet Kaur got the tournament off to a rollicking start, scoring 65 off 30 balls to power her side to a …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India may issue an alert on cough syrup exported by Marion Biotech, whose products have been linked to deaths in Uzbekistan, after tests showed many of the company’s drug samples contained toxins, a drug inspector said on Saturday. Indian police on Friday arrested three Marion employees and …
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By Krishn Kaushik, Devjyot Ghoshal, Saurabh Sharma and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At around 11 a.m. on Feb 14, some 20 Indian tax officials and police burst into the BBC’s offices in New Delhi, shouting at staff to step away from their computers and hand over their mobile phones, according to two people …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Captain Rohit Sharma believes Indian batsmen needed to learn the lesson from their loss in Indore and be braver when they take on the Australian spinners in the fourth and final test in Ahmedabad next week. India, who lead the four-test series 2-1, were bundled out for 109 and 169 on …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s iPhones will soon be assembled at another site in the southern Indian state of Karnataka and 300 acres have been aside to set up a factory, the state government said on Friday. Bloomberg News had earlier reported that Apple partner Foxconn Technology Group planned to invest about $700 million in …
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By Saurabh Sharma and Sakshi Dayal NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian police on Friday arrested three employees of a pharmaceutical firm whose cough syrups were linked to the deaths of 19 children in Uzbekistan, a police officer said, as the country looks to recover from recent setbacks to the industry. The arrests were made after tests …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s foreign exchange reserves fell for the fourth straight week to a three-month low of $560.94 billion as of the week ended Feb. 24, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) statistical supplement showed on Friday. The reserves were down by $330 million at the end of last week, after falling by a …
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