MUMBAI (Reuters) – 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 for it, raising tension in the area. Police said they had arrested the men for the incident in the tourist town of Udaipur in Rajasthan state, …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) -A four-storey residential building collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai overnight, killing at least 19 people, with more feared trapped under the rubble, officials said on Tuesday. Part of the building, located in a crowded suburb in the central part of the city, crumbled around midnight on Monday, the city’s civic body …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Four people died when a helicopter chartered by state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp crashed into the Arabian Sea, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. There were nine people on board when the helicopter crashed near ONGC’s rig Sagar Kiran in Mumbai High. “Four persons rescued by Navy chopper …
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By Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India aims to improve car safety standards and will raise the speed in its crash tests as better roads increase the likelihood of faster vehicles being involved in accidents and adding to one of the world’s worst car-crash death tolls. The Road Transport Ministry has produced a 197-page …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Delhi police on Monday arrested the Muslim co-founder of a fact-checking website, accusing him of insulting religious beliefs on Twitter, a network of digital media organisations said https://twitter.com/DigipubIndia/status/1541446752695308291, condemning it as an attempt to harass him for his journalism. Mohammed Zubair, who co-founded Alt News and regularly tweets on rising marginalisation …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Protesters in India’s financial capital Mumbai on Monday demanded the release of a critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of faking documents about anti-Muslim riots in 2002. Teesta Setalvad is accused of tutoring witnesses, forging the documents and fabricating evidence in cases pertaining to …
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(Reuters) – India captain Hardik Pandya has backed Umran Malik to make his mark on the international stage despite the fast bowler’s nervous debut in the Twenty20 series against Ireland. Opener Deepak Hooda scored an unbeaten 47 on Sunday as India hunted down 109 runs to take a seven-wicket win in a match reduced to …
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By Ayenat Mersie and Clement Uwiringiyimana KIGALI (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Charles expressed deep sorrow over slavery in a speech to Commonwealth leaders in Rwanda on Friday and acknowledged that the roots of the organisation lay in a painful period of history. The Commonwealth, a club of 54 countries that evolved from the British Empire, encompasses …
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By Mayank Bhardwaj and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian farmers have planted 1.96 million hectares with summer-sown rice so far, farm ministry data showed on Friday, down 46% from last year mainly due to a weak start to the monsoon. The outlook is better, however, as the monsoon has gathered steam. Summer rains …
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By Chris Thomas BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares marked their first weekly gain in three on Friday, lifted by sharp gains in automakers and financial stocks, as a slide in commodity prices offered some respite from broadening inflationary pressures. The NSE Nifty 50 index closed 0.92% higher at 15,699.25, while the S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.88% …
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