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By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) -India became the world’s fourth nation on Thursday to achieve the feat of space docking, a technological milestone that underscores its ambitions to expand its share of a rapidly growing $400-billion global space market. Target and Chaser, two satellites of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) that are each roughly …

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By Krishna N. Das and Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Having unexpectedly won two Indian state votes late last year, in big part due to a slew of handouts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is deploying the same playbook in a bid to wrest back Delhi for the first time in nearly three decades …

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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed with his Indian counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, concerns related to “irregular migration” on Tuesday, the State Department said. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT New U.S. President Donald Trump took office on Monday and issued a raft of executive orders that aim to clamp down on …

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By Subrata Nag Choudhary KOLKATA (Reuters) – India’s West Bengal state launched an appeal on Tuesday to overturn a life sentence in favour of the death penalty for a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor, a senior lawyer aware of the development said. The brutal killing sparked national outrage …

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By Subrata Nag Choudhary KOLKATA (Reuters) -An Indian court handed down a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city of Kolkata, rejecting demands for the death penalty saying it was not a rare crime. The woman’s body …

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(This Jan 19. story has been corrected to clarify that Khan has not left the hospital, in paragraph 2) MUMBAI (Reuters) – A man thought to be a citizen of Bangladesh was arrested in India’s financial capital Mumbai on Sunday and is considered the prime suspect in the stabbing of Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, …

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