By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coalition retained power in Bihar state, results showed on Wednesday, in what was a referendum on Modi’s handling of COVID-19 and which may boost his chances in three more state elections next year. Modi’s coalition won a fourth straight term in Bihar, the […]
By Neha Arora NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Air quality in India’s capital deteriorated to its worst this year on Tuesday prompting a social media barrage of residents complaining about stinging eyes, sore throat and breathlessness in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. Delhi’s overall air quality index, which measures pollutants including PM2.5 particles, rose to […]
Soutik Biswas India correspondent Coronavirus pandemic In India’s boiling summers, temperatures can easily rise to 50C (122F). Nearly all vaccines need to be transported and distributed between 2C and 8C in what comprises the so-called cold chain. And most of the Covid-19 vaccines under development, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), will need to […]
In 2020, a common strand linking India and the United States was the world’s largest and oldest democracies punishing their citizens for resisting injustice. By Betwa Sharma Welcome to the year-end instalment of The Idea of India, HuffPost India’s monthly conversation about how we see ourselves as a people and as a nation. As we near […]
By Derek Francis BENGALURU (Reuters) – Indian shares closed at their highest level since mid-February on Thursday as strong earnings from the country’s biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) boosted banks, with metal and energy stocks adding to the gains. The NSE Nifty 50 index rose 1.78% to close above the 12,000-mark for the first […]
By Chris Thomas, Nupur Anand BENGALURU/MUMBAI (Reuters) – State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender by assets, on Wednesday forecast stronger annual credit growth and beat estimates for quarterly profit as economic activity gathers momentum after being hammered by one of the world’s strictest lockdowns. SBI rounds off a strong quarterly earnings season for Indian banks […]
By Sachin Gogoi BBC Monitoring Labanya Saikia, a single mother of three in India’s north-eastern state of Assam, lost her house to a raging fire that started from a nearby gas well of the state-run Oil India Limited (OIL) in June. Also lost in the fire was her tiny shop in Tinsukia district that enabled […]
By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian security forces killed the chief of the largest militant group in Kashmir in a gun battle on Sunday, as the disputed region is riven by violence more than a year after New Delhi withdrew its semi-autonomy. The killing takes the number of militants killed in the Muslim-majority […]
By Umar Farooq ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Sunday his government will give provisional provincial status to part of Kashmir, drawing condemnation from India, which has long objected to any such changes by Islamabad. Khan’s proposal would apply to Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan’s only land link to China, which is the northern part […]
The organisation slammed the recent NIA raids on activists’ homes, NGOs and a newspaper office in Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, and Bangalore. By Meryl Sebastian The Human Rights Watch on Friday said that Indian government was using counterterrorism operations to silence peaceful dissenters, human rights activists, and journalists, as it slammed the recent NIA raids on activists’ homes, […]
