DUBAI (Reuters) -The United Arab Emirates and India will sign a trade and investment agreement on Friday during a virtual summit attended by the countries’ two leaders, the UAE and Indian local media said. UAE de facto ruler Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will witness the signing of the …
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By Alasdair Pal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has complained to Singapore about a remark its prime minister made on the number of Indian parliamentarians facing criminal charges, an Indian official said on Friday, in a rare instance of friction between the Asian allies. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the remark in Singapore’s parliament …
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By Sumit Khanna AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) – An Indian court on Friday sentenced 38 Muslim men to death and ordered life in prison for 11 others for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 in the city of Ahmedabad that killed more than 50 people, lawyers said. The explosions had badly shaken the western state …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India on Thursday urged the world’s biggest 20 economies (G20) to make joint efforts to ensure increased multi-lateral funding by global institutions including the International Monetary Fund to prepare for future pandemics. Low middle-income and middle income countries do not have enough resources and need global support to face these challenges, …
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By Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s imports of oil from Iraq surged in January to a 29-month high of about 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd), making up nearly a third of the supplies to Asia’s third largest economy, data from shipping and industry sources show. Iraq’s importance as a key supplier is …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India overcame a mid-innings blip to beat West Indies by six wickets in the first Twenty20 International on Wednesday to stretch the tourists’ winless streak. Chasing 158 for victory, the hosts, who swept the preceding one-day series 3-0, got off to a flying start before West Indies made a brief comeback …
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By Francesco Guarascio and Jennifer Rigby BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) – The relatively short shelf life of AstraZeneca Plc’s COVID-19 vaccine is complicating the rollout to the world’s poorest nations, according to officials and internal World Health Organization documents reviewed by Reuters. It is the latest headache to plague the COVAX vaccine-sharing project, co-led by the WHO …
PARIS (Reuters) – India reported an outbreak of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu virus on a poultry research farm in the northeastern state of Bihar, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday. The virus killed 787 out of 3,859 birds on the farm in Patna and all of the remaining birds …
By Hanna Rantala BERLIN (Reuters) – Indian filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali was able to draw on his own childhood memories to make “Gangubai Kathiawadi”, a blockbuster adaptation from the book “Mafia Queens of Mumbai”, about Gangubai, a sex worker turned women’s rights champion. The acclaimed director’s first collaboration with celebrated actress Alia Bhatt, which premieres …
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By Sunil Kataria UDUPI, India (Reuters) -Senior schools reopened in the Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday a week after authorities closed them in the face of protests against a ban on female students wearing the hijab Muslim head covering in class. A court is deliberating the recent ban on school girls wearing the hijab …
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