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By Dharamraj Dhutia MUMBAI (Reuters) – Investors want the Indian federal government to sell more short-term and green bonds while resuming floating rate bond auctions, six bankers said on Tuesday. The suggestions were made by market participants in a series of meetings about the government’s borrowing plan for the second half of the fiscal year. …

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By Tora Agarwala GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – Internet and mobile data services were suspended for five days and an indefinite curfew imposed in some parts of India’s northeastern state of Manipur on Tuesday after student protests over continuing ethnic strife turned violent. After a brief lull, fighting broke out between the majority Meitei and minority …

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MUMBAI (Reuters) -Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra and pharmaceutical company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories said on Tuesday they had paid the husband of a senior regulatory official for work when she held the second highest office at the country’s market regulator, but denied any conflict of interest. India’s main opposition party Congress on Tuesday alleged that …

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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Reliance Retail said on Tuesday it was partnering with Israeli innerwear maker Delta Galil, marking the latest push by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s retail business into India’s fast-growing apparel market. The 50-50 joint venture will help deepen Delta Galil’s reach in India through retail, wholesale and digital channels, and also manufacture products for …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Tuesday it was working to create a nationwide registry of suspected cyber criminals, and that it would crack down on them by deploying about 5,000 “cyber commandos” over the next five years. The “commandos” would be a team of experts working with police and regional authorities, Home Minister …

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By Bharath Rajeswaran BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares recovered from a lacklustre start to end higher on Tuesday, with IT and pharma stocks leading the charge ahead of crucial U.S. inflation data that could pave the way for interest rate cuts. The Nifty 50 index closed up 0.42% at 25,041.1, while the S&P BSE Sensex gained …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday he did not view this year’s two-month general elections as a free exercise, but rather as one structured to deliver an advantage to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, without citing evidence. But Modi suffered a rare setback instead, as the opposition made a strong …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Monday a case of mpox it reported in a traveller a day earlier was from the older strain of the virus, not from the new, fast-spreading strain that had led the outbreak to be classified as a global health emergency. “Laboratory testing has confirmed the presence of mpox …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s capital will ban the use of firecrackers ahead of the Hindu festival of Diwali in November in a bid to control air pollution that reaches hazardous levels every winter, the local government said on Monday. New Delhi, a city of 20 million people, is the world’s most polluted capital, where …

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