By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s imports of oil from Iraq surged in January to a 29-month high of about 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd), making up nearly a third of the supplies to Asia’s third largest economy, data from shipping and industry sources show. Iraq’s importance as a key supplier is …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India overcame a mid-innings blip to beat West Indies by six wickets in the first Twenty20 International on Wednesday to stretch the tourists’ winless streak. Chasing 158 for victory, the hosts, who swept the preceding one-day series 3-0, got off to a flying start before West Indies made a brief comeback …
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By Francesco Guarascio and Jennifer Rigby BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – The relatively short shelf life of AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine is complicating the rollout to the world’s poorest nations, according to officials and internal World Health Organization documents reviewed by Reuters. It is the latest headache to plague the COVAX vaccine-sharing project, co-led by the WHO …
PARIS (Reuters) – India reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry research farm in the northeastern state of Bihar, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday. The virus killed 787 out of 3,859 birds on the farm in Patna and all of the remaining birds …
By Hanna Rantala BERLIN (Reuters) – Indian filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali was able to draw on his own childhood memories to make “Gangubai Kathiawadi”, a blockbuster adaptation from the book “Mafia Queens of Mumbai”, about Gangubai, a sex worker turned women’s rights champion. The acclaimed director’s first collaboration with celebrated actress Alia Bhatt, which premieres …
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By Sunil Kataria UDUPI, India (Reuters) -Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head covering in class. A court is deliberating the recent ban on school girls wearing the hijab …
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(Reuters) – England must stop their players from participating in the Twenty20 Indian Premier League (IPL) to improve their test side, former South Africa coach Mickey Arthur said on Wednesday. England’s test squad came under criticism after they lost the five-test Ashes series 4-0 against Australia, a result which led to the departure of head …
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By Sudarshan Varadhan NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s aluminium smelters, textile mills, sponge iron and fertiliser-makers say they face a coal shortage as power generators take the bulk of supplies. India’s top miner Coal India Ltd, which accounts for more than 80% of India’s production of the fuel, and the federal coal ministry, deny there …
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By Sudipto Ganguly MUMBAI (Reuters) – India will use the three-match home series against West Indies to identify players for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia and work towards building a bigger talent pool, captain Rohit Sharma said on Tuesday. The hosts take on West Indies at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens in a series starting …
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By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD,India (Reuters) – Indian police said on Tuesday they had arrested three members of a gang they accused of beating up and robbing men contacted through the use of a gay dating app. Gay sex is no longer a criminal offence in India, but the fear of being ostracised or ridiculed prompts …
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