MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins has played down the impact of his longstanding hip injury, saying he is hopeful it will heal fully over time as he continues to manage it on tour in Sri Lanka. Cummins left the Indian Premier League early to recover from the strain and was rested from the …
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By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian forces in Kashmir killed two militants on Wednesday, one them suspected of gunning down a bank manager this month, police said, part of a stepped-up counter-insurgency effort that has triggered an exodus from the Muslim-majority region. India has been fighting an Islamist separatist insurgency in Kashmir since …
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By Swati Bhat and Rajendra Jadhav MUMBAI (Reuters) – As India faces a crippling surge in food and fuel prices, its policymakers will be counting mostly on this year’s monsoon rains, not just interest rate hikes, to take inflationary pressure off the country’s households and businesses. Like its international peers, the Reserve Bank of India …
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MUMBAI, India (Reuters) – Legspinner Yuzvendra Chahal and seamer Harshal Patel helped India to a convincing 48-run win over South Africa in the third Twenty20 International at Visakhapatnam on Tuesday to keep the hosts’ hopes of success alive in the five-match series. Chahal picked up three wickets while conceding 20 runs in his quota of …
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By Subrata Nag Choudhury KOLKATA, India (Reuters) – Thousands of Muslims marched in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata on Tuesday in a second week of protests, while six prominent former judges said a state government had acted illegally by demolishing the house of a Muslim activist. Muslims have taken to the streets across India …
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By Devjyot Ghoshal NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s military is overhauling its recruitment process for personnel below officer rank, aiming to deploy fitter, younger troops on its front lines, many of them on shorter contracts of up to four years, defence officials said on Tuesday. India, which shares a heavily militarised border with Pakistan and is …
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By Tanvi Mehta BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares ended lower on Tuesday as a surge in wholesale price inflation to 30-year highs stoked fears of more interest rate hikes, offsetting positive cues from global peers. After swinging between gains and losses for most of the session, the NSE Nifty 50 index ended down 0.3% at 15,732.1. …
GENEVA (Reuters) – World Trade Organization (WTO) members sought on Monday to forge agreements on food security to ease strained supply and sharply higher prices that the war in Ukraine have worsened, with only India, Egypt and Sri Lanka withholding support. The 164-member trade body is seeking to reach two agreements at a major meeting …
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By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Russia rose to become India’s second biggest supplier of oil in May, pushing Saudi Arabia into third place but still behind Iraq which remains No. 1, data from trade sources showed. In May Indian refiners received about 819,000 barrels per day (bpd) Russian oil, the highest thus far …
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By Rupam Jain and Saurabh Sharma MUMBAI/LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) -Leaders of prominent Islamic groups and mosques in India appealed to fellow Muslims on Monday to suspend plans for protests against derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad made by two members of the ruling Hindu nationalist party. The message to eschew big gatherings was circulated after …
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