NEW DELHI (Reuters) – At least 13 out of the 14 people on board a helicopter carrying Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat that crashed in southern India on Wednesday have been killed, a government source said. The status of the four star general, serving as India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, remains unclear, the …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares closed higher on Wednesday as the country’s central bank held its key lending rate at a record low, prioritising growth amid risks from inflation and the new Omicron coronavirus variant. The NSE Nifty 50 index ended 1.71% higher at 17,469.75 and the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex rose 1.76% to 58,649.68. Both …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine maker, will halve the output of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot from next week as it had no fresh orders from the government, its CEO Adar Poonawalla told CNBC-TV18 on Tuesday. “I am going to be reducing production by at least 50% to …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Tuesday it was deeply concerned by Myanmar’s conviction of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and called for the rule of law and democratic processes to be upheld. “We are disturbed at the recent verdicts. As a neighbouring democracy, India has been consistently supportive of the democratic transition …
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A shocking and deadly mob attack on a Sri Lankan factory manager accused of blasphemy in eastern Pakistan last week prompted days of soul searching as the man’s remains were flown to his home country. The violence, which was condemned by rights watchdogs including Amnesty International, also drew intense responses from politicians, …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and Russia signed 28 investment pacts on Monday, including deals on steel, shipbuilding, coal and energy, India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said. India has also begun to receive S-400 missiles from Russia this month, Shringla said, adding that supplies would continue. (Reporting by Neha Arora and Alasdair Pal; Editing …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia hopes to deliver more S-400 missile systems to India within the current deal’s option, Interfax cited Russia’s state arms exporter as saying on Monday. Despite pressure from Washington, India signed a $5.5 billion deal with Russia in 2018 for five of the surface-to-air missile systems, giving the Indian military the ability …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow and New Delhi signed a deal on Monday that will see India produce more than 600,000 AK-203 assault rifles, Russian weapons maker Kalashnikov said. The deal was struck during President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Reporting by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Gleb Stolyarov; Editing by …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Chief ministers of two Indian border states on Monday called for the withdrawal of a law that gives armed forces special powers to operate in some northeastern regions affected by insurgencies. The push to repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, known as the AFSPA, came after Indian security forces …
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By Zarir Hussain GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Indians outraged by the security forces’ mistaken killing of 14 civilians in Nagaland state held funeral rites for the dead on Monday amid intense security and sporadic internet outages aimed at damping unrest in the remote northeastern region. Security and government officials have said 13 members of the …
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