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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 getÃâà...
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 beÃâà...
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 IndianÃâà...
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, Ãâã115 and AU$215) made its debut Monday in Delhi with a pretty impressive feature set given its rock-bottomÃâà...
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 otherÃâà...
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,Ãâà...
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 alreadyÃâà...
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, whoÃâà...
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 aÃâà...
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-scaleÃâà...
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 ChinaÃâà...
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,Ãâà...
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 internationalÃâà...
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 fromÃâà...
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 stayÃâà...
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,Ãâà...
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 IndiaÃâà...
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'sÃâà...
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 CricketÃâà...
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 PowersÃâà...
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 allÃâà...
