By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) – Five people have been confirmed dead after a pile of waste collapsed over locals trying to lift coal from an abandoned open cast mine owned by state-run Coal India Ltd in the eastern state of Jharkhand, police said on Wednesday. Police said the mishap occurred early on Tuesday in …
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By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian opposition parties said on Monday they will move parliamentary motions accusing the government of providing misleading information around the use of technology from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group. The New York Times reported on Friday India purchased NSO’s Pegasus software as part of a $2 billion weapons …
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By Amit Dave DINGUCHA, India (Reuters) – Relatives and neighbours of the Indian family who froze to death near the US-Canada border last week said the father repeatedly failed to secure better paid jobs in recent years, prompting them to take a risky trip aided by an illegal migrant network. The deaths amid sub-zero temperatures, …
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By Rupam Jain and Anna Mehler Paperny MUMBAI/TORONTO (Reuters) -Indian police have detained six people in a crackdown on illegal immigration after four Indians were found frozen to death near the border between the United States and Canada last week, officials said on Thursday. On the same day, India’s High Commission in the Canadian capital …
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By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Thousands of youngsters in India have burned down empty train coaches and blocked rail traffic this week in protest against what they call irregularities in recruitment by the mammoth railways department, one of the world’s largest employers. Student associations have called for more protests this week mainly in …
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(Reuters) – India’s Rohit Sharma will return as captain for the limited-overs series against the West Indies at home next month while seamers Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah have been rested, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Wednesday. Rohit missed the one-day international series in South Africa due to a hamstring injury in what …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India reported on Wednesday 285,914 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, with 665 related deaths, government figures show. (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
(Corrects Dr. Subhash Salunke’s designation, paragraph 7) By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s COVID-19 infections, led by the Omicron variant, may see a sharp rise in the coming weeks, some top experts said, noting that the variant was already in community transmission and hospitals were seeing more patients despite a decline in cases in …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A 3-0 drubbing in South Africa is a timely reminder that India need to overhaul their approach to one-day cricket and head coach Rahul Dravid says the problem lies in how they fared in the middle overs — both with bat and ball. With regular skipper Rohit Sharma among a slew …
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By Nick Said CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – India captain KL Rahul said there needs to be some “hard conversations” for the team after their 3-0 defeat in the one-day series against a relatively inexperienced South Africa side. India were expected to take the series and were boosted by the fact that all three games were …
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