NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian authorities have stopped a photojournalist from boarding a flight to the United States, where she had planned to attend a ceremony to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Sanna Irshad Mattoo, who is based in Indian Kashmir’s largest city of Srinagar, is part of a four-member Reuters team which won the 2022 …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian chemicals-to-sugar maker DCM Shriram Ltd reported a 19.2% fall in second-quarter profit on Wednesday, hurt by challenges in its vinyls business and higher excise duty, power and fuel costs. The New Delhi-based company’s consolidated profit fell to 1.28 billion rupees ($15.4 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30, from 1.59 …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – INOX Leisure Ltd, India’s No.2 multiplex cinema operator, on Wednesday said its second-quarter loss more than halved, as box office and food and beverage revenues inched closer to pre-pandemic levels. The company, set to merge with bigger rival PVR Ltd, reported a loss of 403.7 million Indian rupees ($4.9 million) for the …
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LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Shifting the 2023 Asia Cup out of Pakistan because of India’s refusal to tour the country may prompt similar tit-for-tat reaction from the Pakistan Cricket Board, the PCB said on Wednesday. Secretary of the Indian board Jay Shah, who also heads the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), said on Tuesday India would …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian shares surrendered some of their earlier gains to close slightly higher on Wednesday as Nestle India’s strong earnings boost consumer stocks, though lingering fears of high inflation and interest rates on corporate profits capped the increase. The NSE Nifty 50 index ended up 0.14% at 17,512.25, while the S&P BSE Sensex …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday sought India’s support in mobilising G20 nations to help out developing countries saddled with debt, with three of India’s neighbours already seeking IMF loans as their economies struggle. India takes over the G20 presidency from Indonesia for a year from Dec 1. India’s neighbours Sri …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) -Former test player Roger Binny was elected president of the powerful Indian cricket board on Tuesday, replacing former captain Sourav Ganguly in the role. Jay Shah, son of Home Minister Amit Shah, was re-elected as secretary of the world’s richest cricket board. He also heads the Asian Cricket Council. At its annual general …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India is likely to produce 34.4 million bales of cotton in the 2022/23 season that started on Oct. 1, up 12% from a year ago after farmers expanded the crop area, a trade body said on Tuesday. The rise in output in the world’s biggest producer of cotton could weigh on global …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An India-Russia joint venture that makes nuclear capable supersonic cruise missiles hopes to bag orders worth $5 billion by 2025, its chairman said on Tuesday, having signed its first export deal of $375 million this year with the Philippines. BrahMos Aerospace is in discussions with Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam for new …
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By Saurabh Sharma NEW DELHI (Reuters) -A helicopter carrying pilgrims to Kedarnath in India’s Himalayan region crashed on Tuesday, killing all six on board, a police official said. Two pilots and four pilgrims died in the crash in the northern state of Uttarakhand, its police chief, Ashok Kumar, told Reuters by telephone, adding that a …
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