NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on leaders of regional security bloc that includes Russia and China to address energy and food crises sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Modi was addressing a summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members in the Silk Road city of Samarkand …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – At least nine people, including three children, have died after a wall collapsed following heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the state’s Deputy Chief Minister said on Friday. The dead, casual labourers and their families, were sleeping when the collapse occurred early on Friday in the state capital …
By Arsh Tushar Mogre BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s current account deficit likely widened to its highest in nearly a decade in the April-June quarter, driven by soaring global commodity prices and the biggest capital outflows since the global financial crisis of 2008, a Reuters poll found. With the Indian rupee near a record low around …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – France is aware of and respects India’s energy and other relations with Russia, its foreign minister told the India Today news channel on Thursday during a visit to the country. India has not condemned Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, instead calling for negotiations and peace. Russia is India’s biggest foreign supplier of …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Police in northern India have arrested six people in connection with the alleged rape and murder of two girls from a lower-caste community who were found hanging from a tree, local officials said on Thursday. The bodies of the two girls, aged 15 and 17, were found in the Lakhimpur Kheri district …
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By Aftab Ahmed and Uditha Jayasinghe NEW DELHI/COLOMBO (Reuters) – India does not plan to provide fresh financial support to Sri Lanka on top of the nearly $4 billion it has extended this year, two sources told Reuters, as the island’s battered economy starts to stabilise after a preliminary loan agreement with the IMF. India …
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(Refiles Sept. 14 story to fix company name paragraph 10) By Nandan Mandayam BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s insurance providers are bracing for a massive rise in claims for damaged cars and property as floodwaters start receding in India’s tech hub Bengaluru, with initial estimates showing losses running into millions of rupees. Three days of heavy rainfall …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Fitch expects the Indian economy to slow down and said in a statement released late on Wednesday that it would cut the country’s gross domestic product growth forecast for the current fiscal year through March 2023 to 7% from 7.8%. It also projected a further slowdown in growth to 6.7% in FY24 …
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LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria will partner with Serum Institute of India to start local manufacturing of vaccines used in the country’s immunisation programmes, health minister Osagie Ehanire said on Wednesday. Africa’s most populous country imports all of its vaccines, including those used to prevent polio, measles and tuberculosis, but has been seeking foreign partners to …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – France will continue to work with India on the Jaitapur nuclear power plant project in the state of Maharashtra, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said on Wednesday. “We have a special partnership between India and France,” Catherine Colonna said in New Delhi. (Reporting by Shivam Patel in New Delhi, Editing by Louise …
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