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Economic Times
April 23, 2018
Economists, including those at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., are pruning their GDP growth forecasts for India, acknowledging that the banking mess runs deeper than they previously thought, according to a Bloomberg News report by Anirban Nag on Monday. Fearing that their lending decisions could getÃÂ ...
gulfnews.com
April 23, 2018
Dear Muslims,. I am writing this with full responsibility and knowledge of the situation on the ground. I live thousands of kilometres away from Indian shores but visit thrice in a year and closely follow events and remain in touch with friends and acquaintances. Please do not get me wrong, this shouldn't beÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
April 23, 2018
The lawmaker however warned India has shown its capability to attack its enemies not only in its own territory, but also on foreign soil. Mr Singh noted while India wanted to maintain a friendly relationship with its neighbour, Pakistan “was not mending its ways”. His remarks come just a week after the IndianÃÂ ...
CNET
April 23, 2018
Watch out Xiaomi, Asus is eyeing your top spot in India with its new ZenFone Max Pro, and it's making a pretty good case to do so. The 10,999 Indian rupee phone (which converts to about $165, ã115 and AU$215) made its debut Monday in Delhi with a pretty impressive feature set given its rock-bottomà...
Quartz
April 23, 2018
On April 22, the Delhi high court issued a notice to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after a petition challenged the banking regulator's April 06 order barring ... business relationships with such firms by July this year, signalling the end of the road for several entities in the Indian virtual currency ecosystem.
CNN
April 23, 2018
"The infrastructure comes in later," says Salman Akbar, director of International Land Developers, a family-owned Indian company that has been developing industrial, commercial and residential projects in Gurgaon since the late 1990s. "We build, the government plans around it, and gets the land for otherÃÂ ...
CNN
April 23, 2018
India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the two countries had agreed to re-open the Nathu La Pass, a key route for Indian pilgrims to reach Mount Kailash, a holy mountain for Buddhists and Hindus. She also said Beijing and New Delhi will resume sharing data on the Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 4, 2018
But some Indian journalists said the original announcement might have been meant to test the tolerance of news media outlets for more restrictions. They noted that journalists critical of leaders from Mr. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party had been under pressure since the party came to power in 2014.
BBC News
April 4, 2018
Indian police have made three arrests over allegations that women were blackmailed with fake porn photos. An employee of a photography studio in Kerala state was held on Wednesday for allegedly morphing photos of female clients into pornographic images. Two of the owners of the studio had alreadyÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 4, 2018
A young Indian woman was lucky to survive, doctors say, after she fought off a tiger which attacked her goat. Rupali Meshram, 23, said when she heard the goat scream she ran out of her house in western Maharashtra state. She picked up a stick and hit the tiger, which then attacked her. Her mother, whoÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 4, 2018
Former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi and ex-India opener Gautam Gambhir sparred on Twitter over the restive region that is claimed by both nations in its entirety. Afridi tweeted on Tuesday that the situation was "appalling and worrisome in Indian-occupied Kashmir". This prompted Gambhir to retort that Afridi had aÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 4, 2018
What are the most common myths and stereotypes about what Indians eat? The biggest myth, of course, is that India is a largely vegetarian country. But that's not the case at all. Past "non-serious" estimates have suggested that more than a third of Indians ate vegetarian food. If you go by three large-scaleÃÂ ...
CNBC
April 4, 2018
Amazon.com may make a rival offer to buy Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, which is in tie-up talks with Walmart, local media reported, as the two U.S. retail giants jostle for dominance in India's booming online ... The deal would also represent a direct challenge to Amazon in Asia's third-largest economy.
CNN
April 3, 2018
(CNN) The death toll from violent protests in India has risen to 10, after another two protesters from the Dalit community died in the Bhind district of ... The Dalit are one of the most marginalized groups in the country, a legacy of the now-outlawed caste system which stratified Indian society for generations.
Economic Times
March 11, 2018
WASHINGTON: India and China have been important engines of regional and global economic growth, a top official of International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today, noting that a strong economic partnership between the two Asian giants would be beneficial. "For the past several years, India and ChinaÃÂ ...
Independent Online
March 11, 2018
So why did SAA, in the name of streamlining its operation, abandon one of its routes that serviced the historical ties between India and South Africa? SAA claimed that the route was loss making, but industry sources say the seat-load factor tells another story. According to an Indian foreign ministry source,ÃÂ ...
CTV News
March 11, 2018
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told her Indian counterpart that Jaspal Atwal's invitation to an event during the government's official trip to India in February was "an honest mistake." Atwal, who was convicted of trying to kill an Indian cabinet minister in 1986, made internationalÃÂ ...
BloombergQuint
March 11, 2018
Indian shrimp exporter Apex Frozen Foods Ltd. does not see the preliminary anti-dumping duty on the seafood suggested by the U.S. Department of Commerce impacting trade. The U.S., which is ... India's shrimp production doubled, and helped it grab the opportunity created by lower supplies from Asia.
WTOP
March 11, 2018
India's Shubhankar Sharma, tees off on the second hole during the final round of the Mexico Championship at Chapultepec Golf Club in Mexico City, ... NEW DELHI (AP) — Matt Wallace birdied the first playoff hole against fellow Englishman Andrew “Beef” Johnston to win the Indian Open on Sunday.
New York Times
March 11, 2018
Discrimination, although forbidden by law, is widespread in India's stratified society. On Wednesday morning, district officials in Meerut discovered a statue of B.R. Ambedkar in pieces. The Dalits revere Mr. Ambedkar for enshrining their rights in the Indian Constitution. Officials, hoping to avert anger fromÃÂ ...
South China Morning Post
March 11, 2018
What does the removal of term limits for the Xi Jinping presidency in China mean for the developing world and, in particular, for South Asia? One possibility is there could be a ... A Chinese and an Indian soldier at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China. Photo: AFP. Three, an indefinite stayÃÂ ...
The Columbian
March 11, 2018
NEW DELHI — India and France pledged Saturday to work together to ensure freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and signed an agreement to expedite construction of a major nuclear power plant in India by a French company. After talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi,ÃÂ ...
Times of India
March 5, 2018
WASHINGTON: Indian embassy telephone lines have been spoofed by fraudsters in the US to cheat people for money, according to an advisory ... Some of the Indian nationals living in the US, who received such call, brought to the notice of the embassy that some fraudsters are spoofing embassy of IndiaÃÂ ...
CNBC
March 5, 2018
India, home of the world's fastest-growing economy, is quickly becoming one of the globe's greatest technology hubs. That is partially thanks to the country's abundance of highly skilled technical graduates, whose numbers are growing at a rate of 7 percent per year, according to the latest study from India'sÃÂ ...
Cricbuzz
March 5, 2018
The upcoming series against India will be Meg Lanning's first assignment since Australia's 2017 semi-final defeat to the Mithali Raj-led side. A surgery for her shoulder injury kept her out of the Ashes and the third edition of the WBBL as well. She was expected to feature in the Women's National CricketÃÂ ...
Voice of America
March 5, 2018
In January, anti-India protests erupted across Kashmir after army soldiers shot and killed three civilians during clashes in the same area. Indian troops are covered by controversial powers that shield them from prosecution while serving in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Under the Armed Forces Special PowersÃÂ ...
Quartz
March 5, 2018
A glance at its performance shows that the government's plan to sell its stake in the carrier may just be what the airline needs. Take on-time performance, for instance. This parameter measures the timeliness of the departure and arrival of Indian flights. Not surprisingly, Air India falls woefully short. Among allÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 18, 2018
In an illustration on Instagram, a young woman perched on the arm of a bench can be seen letting out a fart. The Indian artist behind the sketch, Kaviya Ilango, speaks to the BBC's Krutika Pathi about the "dirty taboos" that inspire her. "People generally advise you not to air your dirty laundry in public, but I am convinced thatÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
February 18, 2018
AJMER, INDIA (AFP) - Rescuers discovered nine more bodies Sunday (Feb 18) beneath the ruins of a Indian hotel, bringing the known death toll from an explosion which tore through a wedding party to 18, an official said. A gas cylinder exploded late Friday at the hotel in the city of Beawar, in the westernÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
February 18, 2018
A long wait is finally over as Prime Minister of Canada @JustinTrudeau accompanied by Madame Sophie Gregoire Trudeau and their three children arrive in India on a State Visit pic.twitter.com/rzyAa4r1gF. — @VikasSwarup. Indian Minister of State for agriculture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat was the first toÃÂ ...
The National
February 18, 2018
In 1988, asked to step in during a coup in the Maldives, India flew 1,600 troops to the Indian Ocean archipelago to help the government regain control. The intervention was widely praised. In the US, President Ronald Reagan called it “a valuable contribution to regional stability”. British prime ministerÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
February 18, 2018
A joint statement described the Chabahar Port, which is being developed with funding from India, as a "golden gateway" that will help in reaching out to land-locked Afghanistan and central Asia. During the joint press conference, Rouhani spoke on the importance of rail links from Chabahar to Zahedan,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 18, 2018
Full-page advertisements reading “Trump is here. Are you invited?”featured on the front page of three Indian national newspapers at the weekend ahead of a visit by the US president's son to India this week. Trump Jr, the executive director of the Trump Organization, is expected to arrive in Delhi on MondayÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
February 17, 2018
India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has made first arrests in the state-run Punjab National Bank scam that allegedly involved billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi obtaining fake documents for overseas loans. Among those arrested were two employees at Punjab National Bank believed to be at the centerÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 17, 2018
India is helping develop the port to create a strategic trade route to landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics, bypassing rival Pakistan. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also agreed to step up efforts to bring stability to war-ravaged Afghanistan afterÃÂ ...
ESPN
November 12, 2017
Michele Thomson leads Hero Women's Indian Open by three ... (69) and Celine Boutier (66), Australia's Sarah Kemp (66) and India's Vani Kapoor (68) were tied ...
Quartz
November 12, 2017
They were fighting for Britain at a time when the struggle for India's ... East Asia, formed from prisoners-of-war belonging to the imperial Indian ...
Scout
November 12, 2017
America appears ready to provide a significant boost to India's future aircraft carrier . ... According to Indian media reports, the United States and India [4] ... president's current trip to Asia when Trump has called on Japan and ...
Times of India
November 12, 2017
In the last two decades, Indian cities have seen a rising tide of waste that's disposed of in open dumps. Such landfills, often on fire, are only ...
The Indian Express
November 12, 2017
Though India is not on the president's Asia itinerary, the ... To address the urgent need for infrastructure funding in the Asian region—a principal ... out market access problems and our difficulties with Indian intellectual property ...
Voice of America
November 12, 2017
It will also potentially give India access to Central Asian markets through Afghanistan, because rival Pakistan does not allow Indian goods to be ...
Chicago Tribune
November 12, 2017
As thick smog crept over India's capital this past week and smudged ... in the Indian capital, said Sonia, an airline official who uses one name.
CNN
November 11, 2017
(CNN) Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad are doing a last-minute sweep to get beggars off the streets ahead of Ivanka Trump's visit ...
Hindustan Times
November 1, 2017
Seasoned diplomat Ajay Bisaria, currently the Indian ambassador to Poland, ... India had also pulled out of the SAARC summit, to be hosted by ...
Nikkei Asian Review
November 1, 2017
Indian shares rise to record amid Asian equity rally ... Equity markets elsewhere in Asia also jumped Wednesday, with the Nikkei Asia300 Index ...
Times of India
November 1, 2017
In December, Indian and US officials will meet for the first time for a ... India wants China to continue to shield Pakistan at the multilateral level ...
NDTV
November 1, 2017
Indian Navy women combatants now operate as highly skilled ... anti-submarine warfare aircraft, the US-built Poseidon 8-India (P-8I) used to ...
Yahoo Cricket
November 1, 2017
After a measured start, the opening duo of Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit Sharma tore into the Kiwi bowling line-up, smashing a number of records ...
The Diplomat
November 1, 2017
India and Russia “successfully conducted” this year's iteration of the joint ... involved over 900 Indian military personnel from the Indian Army, ...
Economic Times
November 1, 2017
NEW DELHI: Ratings agency Moody's said India will be the only Asian country where telecom industry revenue declined due to brutal price ...
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