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By Divya Chowdhury MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s focus on decarbonising its steel sector and developing offshore wind power will help it become carbon neutral ahead of its promised goal of 2070, the director-general of the International Renewable Energy Agency said. IRENA’s Francesco La Camera told the Reuters Global Markets Forum late on Monday that India …

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BENGALURU (Reuters) – India has approved emergency use of Biological E’s COVID-19 vaccine Corbevax for children aged five to 12 and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for six to 12-year olds, the country’s health minister said https://bit.ly/3OF11Ly in a tweet on Tuesday. (Reporting by Rama Venkat in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is prepared to take a much bigger role in global affairs and would help the world with more supplies of wheat to tame food inflation if WTO rules allow, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday. “India is prepared to step forward in a much more substantive way on the …

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By Prerana Bhat BENGALURU (Reuters) -The Reserve Bank of India will raise its repo rate in June and hike at a faster pace than predicted just a few weeks ago as a surge in inflation puts pressure on the central bank to act quicker, a Reuters poll showed. Retail inflation accelerated to nearly 7% in …

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By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has bought more than twice as much crude oil from Russia in the two months since its invasion of Ukraine as it did in the whole of 2021, according to Reuters calculations, as Indian refiners snapped up discounted oil that others have shunned. Refiners in India have …

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(Reuters) – Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma called on his team’s batsmen to step up their game after Sunday’s 36-run defeat by the Lucknow Super Giants stretched their winless run in the Indian Premier League to eight matches. Mumbai, who have won the lucrative Twenty20 tournament a record five times, are rooted to the bottom …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief executive will seek to increase sales of European military equipment to India and relaunch talks on a free trade deal when she meets India’s prime minister in New Delhi on Monday, a senior EU official said. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s visit is part of Western …

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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Virat Kohli was out on the first ball for the second straight match as his lean patch continued in the Indian Premier League on Saturday during his side Royal Challengers Bangalore’s humiliating defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad. Former India captain Kohli, generally a prolific run-getter, has not managed to score a half-century in …

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