MUMBAI (Reuters) -India’s Adani group rejected claims by New Delhi Television Ltd that a major stake sale by its founders would require clearance from India’s tax authorities, as a public wrangle to take control of the popular news network intensified. The Adani conglomerate run by India’s richest man, Gautam Adani, last week unveiled plans to …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Soldiers from the Indian army have landed in Russia for a week-long military exercise, India’s defence ministry said on Thursday, days after the United States said it had concerns about any country exercising with Russia now. The Indian government said that its forces have regularly participated in multilateral exercises in Russia, …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Serum Institute of India (SII), the world’s biggest vaccine maker, has developed the country’s first cervical cancer shot that will hit the market soon, the company and the government said on Thursday. Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women globally, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and …
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By Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Krishna N. Das MUMBAI (Reuters) – Bollywood may be broken, and it has itself to blame. That’s the verdict of one of its biggest and brightest stars after the latest flop in a Hindi-language movie industry that’s long mesmerised Indians, and the world, with its dazzling all-singing, all-dancing brand of big-screen …
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By Sethuraman N R BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian shares fell on Thursday as investors sold information technology firms on fears of a demand slowdown, while an increase in taxes on fuel exports and domestic crude hit the energy sector. The NSE Nifty 50 index ended down 1.22% at 17,542.80 and the S&P BSE Sensex dropped …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Suryakumar Yadav believes teams must be flexible to master cricket’s 20-overs format and is fine with a floating position in India’s batting lineup, the explosive batsman said. Yadav smashed an unbeaten 68 off 26 balls as holders India thumped minnows Hong Kong by 40 runs on Wednesday to sail into the Super …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Shares of India’s SpiceJet Ltd tumbled nearly 15% on Thursday to a one-month low, after the low-cost carrier posted a bigger quarterly loss due to higher fuel costs and unfavourable foreign currency rates, and said its finance chief had resigned. SpiceJet on Wednesday reported a net loss of 7.84 billion rupees ($98.50 million) …
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By Sunil Kataria MANDA BHOPAWAS, Rajasthan, India (Reuters) – For Suraj Prajapati, a mother of two who lives in the arid northern Indian state of Rajasthan, fighting for access to clean drinking water at her doorstep required extraordinary measures. Tired of having to spend hours fetching water and desperate for a piped water connection to …
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By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s economy probably achieved its fastest annual expansion in a year in the April-June quarter, economists said, expecting the pace to sharply slow this quarter and in the next two as higher interest rates hit economic activity. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the three months to June 30 …
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) – The United States is concerned about India’s plans to participate in joint military exercises with Russia, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday. Last month, Moscow announced plans to hold “Vostok” (East) exercises from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, even as it wages a costly war in …
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