By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s annual monsoon covered the entire country on Saturday, six days earlier than usual, the state-run weather office said, but rain totals are 5% below average so far this season. The monsoon, critical for farm output and economic growth in the world’s second-most populous country, arrived on the …
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Rishabh Pant smashed a blistering 146 and forged a 222-run stand with Ravindra Jadeja to drag India back into the contest in the rescheduled fifth test against England in Edgbaston on Friday. The tourists were reeling at 98-5 in the second session before Pant combined with Jadeja and launched a spectacular …
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LONDON (Reuters) – England test captain Ben Stokes will skip the Twenty20 series against India but will return for the one-day internationals, England’s cricket board (ECB) said on Friday. Jos Buttler takes over as white-ball captain after Eoin Morgan announced his retirement this week. England host India in three T20s from July 7 followed by …
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By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s rice farmers have planted 4.3 million hectares with the grain so far this season, farm ministry data showed on Friday, down 27% from the same period last year after lower than usual June rainfall. Millions of Indian farmers plant crops such as rice, corn, …
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By Saurabh Sharma UDAIPUR, India (Reuters) – Two weeks before a Hindu tailor in India was hacked to death by two Muslim men who filmed the act, he was briefly detained by police after a rival tailor accused him of an “inflammatory” Facebook post on Prophet Mohammad. Kanhaiyalal Teli’s son told Reuters his father had …
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By Zarir Hussain GUWAHATI,India (Reuters) -At least 14 people have died and another four dozen are feared to have been killed after a massive landslide in a remote area of the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, officials said on Thursday. Rescue workers battled heavy rains to pull out 19 survivors from the rubble on Thursday …
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BIRMINGHAM (Reuters) – India captain Rohit Sharma has been ruled out of the rescheduled fifth test against England beginning on Friday and seamer Jasprit Bumrah will lead the side instead, the touring team said on Thursday. Rohit was doubtful for the clash since he tested positive for COVID-19 during a warm-up match in Leicester last …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is returning to power in the country’s richest state, Maharashtra, giving it a fillip ahead of the 2024 national election after an unlikely ruling alliance of parties crumbled after more than two years. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will now form the government in Mumbai’s home state …
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By Swati Bhat and Nupur Anand MUMBAI (Reuters) -The proportion of Indian bank loans classified as “non performing” may shrink further from March’s six-year low, helped by improved growth in lending, according to a report published by the Reserve Bank of India on Thursday. The Financial Stability Report includes contributions from all financial sector regulators …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s federal fiscal deficit between April and May touched 2.04 trillion rupees ($25.84 billion), or 12.3% of the year-to-March budgeted target, government data showed on Thursday. In first two months of the current fiscal year, net tax receipts were 3.08 trillion rupees while total expenditure was 5.86 trillion rupees, the data …
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