NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Eight people died after flash floods hit a river in India’s eastern state of West Bengal on Wednesday in the latest incident of heavy seasonal rain causing havoc in South Asia. Around 70 people were rescued by disaster relief teams, while 13 were undergoing treatment at a regional hospital, West Bengal’s …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Police in Mumbai said on Thursday they had detained one person from India’s eastern state of Bihar after threat calls to billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s family that controls the telecoms-to-clothes Reliance Industries conglomerate. In February last year, a car laden with explosives was found near the Ambani home. The purported owner of the …
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By Leroy Leo and Edward McAllister (Reuters) -The deaths of dozens of young children in Gambia from acute kidney injuries may be linked to contaminated cough and cold syrups made by an Indian drug manufacturer, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. The findings, announced by WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, followed tests on several …
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By Sunil Kataria NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Sitting on the floor of a house on the outskirts of New Delhi, women smile and chat as they fill brightly coloured toy bears with white stuffing made from a product more commonly found in a trash can. The material is composed of cigarette stubs, separated into fibres …
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By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW (Reuters) -Snow was complicating rescuers’ efforts on Wednesday to reach a group of mountaineers hit by an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas, which killed at least 10, with more than 20 missing, a regional police official told Reuters. The group, consisting of 34 trainees preparing for high altitude navigation who were …
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(Reuters) – India head coach Rahul Dravid said team management are monitoring seamer Mohammed Shami’s recovery from COVID-19 as they look to replace the injured Jasprit Bumrah ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup. India’s cricket board (BCCI) confirmed on Monday that pace spearhead Bumrah had been ruled out due to a back injury, delivering a …
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By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian state refiners plan to lock-in more of their crude supplies in term deals, worried that tighter Western sanctions on Russia, including from the EU, could curb future supplies in already tight markets, sources at state refiners said. Indian Oil Corp, the country’s top refiner, and Bharat Petroleum Corp …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that his country is ready to contribute to peace efforts in the ongoing conflict with Russia that has raged for seven months. “He expressed his firm conviction that there can be no military solution to the conflict and conveyed …
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By Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) – Gold-supplying banks have cut back shipments to India ahead of major festivals in favour of focusing on China, Turkey, and other markets where better premiums are offered, three bank officials and two vault operators told Reuters. That could create scarcity in the world’s second-biggest market for gold, and force …
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By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – Greenko Group, one of India’s largest renewable energy companies, hopes to list in London in the future as it builds the world’s largest integrated grid-scale renewable energy storage project in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The company was listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock …
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