By Sethuraman N R BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares closed higher on Thursday, led by gains in information technology and energy stocks on improved investor sentiment after a study showed risk from Omicron was lower compared with the Delta coronavirus variant. The NSE Nifty 50 index ended 0.69% higher at 17,072.60 and the benchmark S&P BSE …
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By Neha Arora and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s capital New Delhi on Wednesday banned Christmas and other celebrations ahead of New Year to contain a possible surge in the Omicron coronavirus variant, as the city reported the country’s highest number of cases along with Maharashtra state. Over the past 24 hours, India’s …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -A fire at Indian Oil Corp’s Haldia refinery killed three people and injured 44, the company said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at around 2:50 p.m. local time (0920 GMT) during maintenance-related work at a gasoline making unit of the 160,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery, the company said. IOC, the country’s top refiner, has …
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By Neha Arora and Shilpa Jamkhandikar NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India told state governments on Tuesday to be proactive and on the lookout for surges of the Omicron coronavirus variant after cases nearly doubled within a week across a dozen states. India, whose already creaking health system became overwhelmed by COVID cases in the summer, has …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Franchise cricket has raised the profile of women’s cricket and a full-fledged Indian Premier League (IPL) is the “next step” for its growth, New Zealand captain Sophie Devine said. The Indian cricket board currently hosts a short three-team women’s competition along with the lucrative men’s IPL which will …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech said on Monday it has submitted an application to the country’s drug regulator to conduct a late-stage trial for a booster dose of its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine. Indian COVID-19 vaccine makers are lobbying the government to authorise boosters as supplies have far outstripped demand, but the health …
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CHENNAI (Reuters) – More than 150 employees at a Foxconn India factory that makes iPhones for Apple Inc were hospitalised for food poisoning this week but almost all have now been discharged, the district government said on Saturday. “There was an outbreak of acute diarrhoeal disease reported among the Foxconn employees,” the statement from the …
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(Reuters) -The World Health Organization on Friday issued an emergency use listing to Serum Institute of India’s version of Novavax Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine, paving the way for the two companies to ship their doses for the COVAX program. The EUL to the shot, Covovax, marks a significant milestone for Novavax as well, after the vaccine …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has detected a total of 101 cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, a health ministry official said on Friday, adding some districts were showing a rise in overall infections relative to tests. (Reporting by Krishna N. Das and Rama Venkat; editing by John Stonestreet)
BENGALURU (Reuters) – Three people were killed and 10 injured in a fire at a plant owned by Indian chemicals maker Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd in the western state of Gujarat, the company said late on Thursday. The fire at a small standalone plant at its Ranjitnagar site did not lead to gas emissions and has …
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