By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India test captain Virat Kohli confirmed his availability for the one-day leg of the team’s South Africa tour on Wednesday and said he was “tired” of explaining there was no rift between him and the team’s new white-ball captain Rohit Sharma. A month after his own decision to …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The only survivor of last week’s helicopter crash that killed Indian defence chief General Bipin Rawat and 12 aboard succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday, the air force said. Group Captain Varun Singh was among the 14 people travelling in the Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopter that burst into flames after …
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(Reuters) – Vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) has pledged 50 million pounds ($66.2 million) to the University of Oxford for setting up a research campus that would also house the institute behind the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 shot. The investment was made through the Indian company’s Serum Life Sciences unit, Oxford University said on Wednesday. …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian troops killed a suspected militant during a gunbattle in the federally-controlled Jammu and Kashmir region on Tuesday, two officials said, as violence escalated in the territory at the heart of the decades of tensions with Pakistan. Fighting between Indian security forces and militants broke out in the …
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By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is struggling to export its surplus of COVID-19 vaccines as logistical hurdles delay their use in many countries despite low levels of inoculation, vaccine producer the Serum Institute of India (SII) and a government official said on Tuesday. The SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker that …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Serum Institute of India (SII) plans to launch the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for children in the country in six months, its CEO said on Tuesday, adding global vaccine supplies were outstripping the absorption capacity of many countries. The Novavax shot, which the world’s largest producer of vaccines calls Covovax, has shown …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR (Reuters) -Two police personnel were killed and at least 14 others injured when militants attacked their bus on Monday on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, police said, hours after police shot dead two militants at a nearby checkpoint. Kashmir police said on Twitter that militants opened fire …
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By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – India’s western state of Gujarat has acknowledged more COVID-19 deaths than its official tally, according to a court document filed on Monday, lending weight to fears that the country’s actual toll was much higher than reported. Reuters and other media have reported, based on figures collected from crematoriums …
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(Reuters) – India batsman Rohit Sharma has been ruled out of the three-test series against South Africa due to a hamstring injury and will be replaced by Priyank Panchal, the country’s cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday. Rohit, who replaced Virat Kohli as India’s white-ball skipper last week, picked up the injury to his left …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s targets to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and increase its share of renewables in the energy mix were “very ambitious yet very much achievable”, environment secretary, Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, said on Monday. Separately, Britain’s president of the COP26 climate conference, Alok Sharma, said he urged companies in India and in other …
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