By Nidhi Verma and Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state and a key battleground for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and opposition groups, will hold elections in seven phases starting from Feb. 10, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said on Saturday. The outcome of the election in the northern state, …
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By Krishna N. Das and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s daily COVID-19 cases jumped to 117,100 on Friday, a five-fold increase in a week and on course to overtake its previous infection peak as the fast-spreading Omicron variant replaces Delta in cities. Government officials have privately said https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-new-covid-19-cases-double-four-days-58097-2022-01-05 they are working under the …
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By Mark Gleeson JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – India’s batsmen need to better seize their chances and aim for longer partnerships if they are to bounce back from their test defeat on Thursday and still win the series in South Africa, said coach Rahul Dravid. India lost by seven wickets in the second test at the Wanderers …
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By Mark Gleeson JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa captain Dean Elgar produced a heroic unbeaten innings of 96 runs to lead his team to a seven-wicket victory over India in the second test at the Wanderers on Thursday. Elgar defied a hostile Indian attack and body blows from balls that struck him on a difficult pitch …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Gavi vaccine alliance is in talks with India’s Bharat Biotech over potential procurement of the company’s Covaxin COVID-19 shot for the COVAX global vaccine distribution programme, a Gavi spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday. “We are in discussion with (Bharat Biotech) as we consider the overall needs …
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By Devjyot Ghoshal and Sankalp Phartiyal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 20-year-old man they suspect created an online app that shared pictures of Muslim women for a virtual “auction”, as an investigation into the case of communal harassment widened. An open source app on the Github platform …
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By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – Six workers at a dyeing and printing mill in India were killed and more than 20 were taken to hospital on Thursday after inhaling toxic gas caused by an illegal dump of waste chemicals, officials said. The disaster took place in the industrial city of Surat in Gujarat …
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By Subrata Nagchoudhury and Krishna N. Das KOLKATA (Reuters) – Indian megacities Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are experiencing a surge in COVID-19 cases, although without a corresponding rise in hospitalisations, but fears are growing about a spread to rural areas in coming days. India reported 90,928 new daily COVID-19 cases on Thursday, up nearly four-fold …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – India’s Ajinkya Rahane believes his side have set South Africa an imposing total to win the second test despite the home team being almost halfway to their target with just two wickets down. India set the home side 240 runs to win the test at the Wanderers, and square the series, after …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A diabetic man who died in the western state of Rajasthan was India’s first fatality from the Omicron COVID-19 variant, the health ministry said on Wednesday, adding that overall infections had doubled to 58,097 over the past four days. The health ministry reported that total Omicron infections …
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