NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of people marched through the Indian city of Udaipur on Thursday, many holding Hindu saffron flags and placards demanding protection for Hindus after two Muslim men videoed themselves slaying a Hindu tailor in the city earlier this week. Police had barred public gatherings in the northwestern state of Rajasthan out …
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India received 8% lower rainfall than average in June because of scanty rainfall in the central parts of the country, the state-run weather office said on Thursday. Cotton, soybean and sugar cane growing states in central India received as much as 54% lower rainfall than normal in June, according to data compiled …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Virat Kohli could line up beside Pakistan skipper Babar Azam in the same team next year with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) planning to revive the Afro-Asia Cup. The 50-overs series was first played in 2005 before being discontinued after its next edition in 2007 as relations …
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By Rupam Jain MUMBAI (Reuters) -Fearing outbreaks of religious violence, police in the Indian state of Rajasthan banned public gatherings and suspended internet services a day after two Muslims posted a video claiming responsibility for killing a Hindu tailor in the city of Udaipur. Two suspects were being interrogated by federal investigators on Wednesday, while …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – The chief minister of India’s western state of Maharashtra, the richest state in the country, resigned late on Wednesday, after a group in his ruling party defected to the opposition. The resignation of Uddhav Thackeray, head of regional party Shiv Sena, will allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India has asked social media platforms to immediately remove content that encourages, glorifies or justifies the killing on Tuesday of a Hindu tailor, the government said. A Hindu man was killed in his tailoring shop in a northwestern Indian town on Tuesday, and two machete-wielding Muslim men in a video claimed responsibility …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan that would allow local crude producers to sell oil to private companies, a move that would help raise revenue of state-run producers such as ONGC and Oil India. The decision would be effective from Oct. 1, and existing conditions to sell crude oil to …
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By Sudarshan Varadhan, Aftab Ahmed and Nupur Anand NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s biggest cement producer, UltraTech Cement, is importing a cargo of Russian coal and paying using Chinese yuan, according to an Indian customs document reviewed by Reuters, a rare payment method that traders say could become more common. UltraTech is bringing in 157,000 …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian Premier League (IPL) will have an extended 10-week window in the next international calendar to allow all the world’s top cricketers to participate in the popular Twenty20 competition, a top Indian board official told Reuters. Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah …
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By Rupam Jain MUMBAI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Tuesday gave police four days to question a prominent journalist over a 2018 tweet they described as “highly provocative”, in a case that has strained relations between the country’s majority Hindu population and large Muslim minority. Mohammed Zubair, a co-founder of fact-checking website Alt News …
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