Category: India News

Bus catches fire in west India, killing 12 and injuring 43

NEW DELHI — A bus caught fire after hitting a truck on a highway in western India early Saturday, killing at least 12 passengers, an official said. Another 43 people with serious burns were taken to a hospital in Nashik, a city in Maharashtra state, said police officer […]

India tests samples of cough syrup linked to deaths of children in Gambia

NEW DELHI, Oct 6 – India said it is testing samples of cough syrups produced by local manufacturer Maiden Pharmaceuticals for export after the World Health Organization said its products were linked to the deaths of dozens of children in Gambia. The deaths of 66 children in the […]

India’s Modi says ready to contribute to peace efforts in Ukraine

NEW DELHI, Oct 4 – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that his country is ready to contribute to peace efforts in the ongoing conflict with Russia that has raged for seven months. “He expressed his firm conviction that there can be […]

India’s Suzlon Energy founder Tulsi Tanti dies

MUMBAI, Oct 2 – Tulsi Tanti, the founder and chairman of Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy Ltd (SUZL.NS), died on Saturday aged 64, the company said in a statement. Tanti, who was also the chairman of the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association, suffered a cardiac arrest and passed […]

Gandhi loyalist, ex-UN diplomat in race to lead India’s opposition Congress party

NEW DELHI, Sept 30 – An ex-United Nations diplomat and a veteran politician emerged on Friday as contenders to lead India’s main opposition Congress party as it prepares to elect a new president from outside the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty for the first time in nearly 25 years. Shashi Tharoor, […]

Family, supporters demand justice in alleged murder of Indian woman

LUCKNOW,India, Sept 25 – Protesters in India’s northern Uttarakhand state turned out on Sunday to demand an impartial probe into the alleged murder of a young woman who worked at a resort owned by the son of a former state minister, officials said on Sunday. Police found the […]

Tightening liquidity may force Indian banks to compete harder for deposits

MUMBAI, Sept 23 – Indian banks may be forced to compete harder to boost deposits amid tightening liquidity and rising credit demand ahead of the festive season, analysts warned. Indian banking system liquidity slipped into deficit for the first time in nearly 40 months earlier this week, prompting […]

Traffic, water shortages, now floods: the slow death of India’s tech hub?

BENGALURU, Sept 15 – Harish Pullanoor spent his weekends in the late 1980s tramping around the marshes and ponds of Yemalur, an area then on the eastern edge of the Indian metropolis of Bengaluru, where his cousins would join him catching small freshwater fish. In the 1990s, Bengaluru, […]

Fire at e-scooter showroom in India kills eight in deadliest such incident

MUMBAI, Sept 13 – A fire that started at an electric scooter showroom in India killed at least eight people and injured 11, police said on Tuesday, in what is the deadliest such incident involving electric vehicles in the country. A spate of electric scooter fires this year […]

Lt Governor addresses ‘Badlte Bharat mein Nikharta Kashmir’ event organized in memory of outstanding writer Shri Dushyant Kumar at Meerut

Lt Governor addresses ‘Badlte Bharat mein Nikharta Kashmir’ event organized in memory of outstanding writer Shri Dushyant Kumar at Meerut Shri Dushyant Kumar has made an enormous contribution to enrich the literary & cultural heritage of the country, which provides unending source of energy & motivation to people: […]

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