MUMBAI/BUENOS AIRES/LONDON, June 27 – It only took 24 hours last month for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in India – the world’s second-largest producer of wheat – to shelve its plans to “feed the world”. In April, Modi had said publicly that the world’s most populous democracy […]
NEW DELHI, June 25 – India will introduce a safety rating system for passenger cars – a measure it hopes will encourage manufacturers to provide advanced safety features and will boost the “export worthiness” of vehicles produced in the country. The road transport ministry said in a statement […]
MUMBAI, June 24 – India’s central bank is on course to bring down prices but the retail inflation rate is likely to remain above the top end of its mandated target band until December, Governor Shaktikanta Das said in an article in the Times of India on Friday. […]
DHAKA/GUWAHATI, India, June 21 – Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after days of intense rain. Particularly heavy monsoon rain has brought the worst floods […]
GAUHATI, India — Massive flooding and mudslides in northeastern India’s Assam state have claimed eight more lives, officials said Sunday, taking the death toll to 62 from weeks of heavy rains that caused one of Asia’s largest rivers to overflow. Assam’s disaster management agency said 32 of the […]
BHUBANESHWAR/LUCKNOW, India June 18 – Protesters in India’s eastern state of Bihar damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station on Saturday, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the government reverse course. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has introduced a scheme called […]
Srinagar, Jun 17: Â Jammu and Kashmir reported 22 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, taking the infection tally in the Union Territory to 4,54,442, officials said. Seventeen fresh cases were reported from Jammu division while five cases were reported from Kashmir valley, the officials said here. There are 124 […]
NEW DELHI, June 17 – Authorities imposed restrictions on Friday on gatherings in a satellite city of India’s capital that is home to offices of several multinational firms, and one person was killed as protests against a new military recruitment process spread. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government unveiled […]
NEW DELHI, June 17 – One protester was killed in southern India’s Secunderabad city on Friday during clashes with police as demonstrations over a new military recruitment system turned violent, a local government official said. “The body has been shifted to a hospital for post mortem,” the official […]
LUCKNOW, India, June 16 – Police in northern India fired shots in the air on Thursday to push back stone-throwing crowds and authorities shut off mobile internet in at least one district to forestall further chaos, as protests widened against a new military recruitment system. Prime Minister Narendra […]
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