More than 62,500 cases were reported in the past 24 hours. Emily Schmall NEW DELHI (AP) — As India hit another grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, crossing 2 million cases and more than 41,000 deaths, community health volunteers went on strike complaining they were ill-equipped to respond to the wave of infection […]
The Boeing 737 split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India. NEW DELHI (AP) — An Air India Express flight with 190 people on board skidded off a runway and split in two while landing Friday in heavy rain in southern India. Police said at least 14 people were killed and […]
Divya Chowdhury, Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s policymakers should focus on protecting the economy as businesses struggle amid the coronavirus pandemic instead of being overly focused on what ratings agencies think, former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday. “It is also important to convince both domestic and international investors that after […]
“There is already a sense of nostalgia.” By Betwa Sharma NEW DELHI — On 5 August, 2019, the Narendra Modi government revoked Jammu and Kashmir’s semi autonomous status guaranteed under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, demoted India’s only Muslim majority state to a Union Territory, and placed it under a months-long lockdown without any internet. Thousands including […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Interior Minister Amit Shah has been admitted to hospital after catching the coronavirus, he said on Sunday, becoming the most senior politician in the country to test positive for the disease. Shah, a close aide to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, heads a ministry that has been at the forefront of […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Police raided rural hamlets and made arrests to break up a bootlegging cartel on Sunday, after 86 people died from consuming illegally-produced alcohol this week in Punjab, officials said. “We have conducted raids at more than 30 places today and we have detained six more persons,” Dhruman H. Nimbale, a senior […]
At least 86 people have died in recent days as a result of drinking illegally-made alcohol, officials in the northern Indian state of Punjab say. On Saturday, police carried out more than 100 raids, confiscating supplies of the suspected liquor and making 25 arrests. The number of dead has steadily risen in the last few […]
Nidhi Verma NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Oil Corp (IOC) (IOC.NS), the country’s top refiner, reported a 47% decline in its June quarter net profit to 19.11 billion rupees ($255.53 million), as coronavirus lockdowns hammered fuel demand and squeezed margins. First-quarter revenue fell by about 41% to 889.37 billion rupees. Lockdowns around the world have […]
By Vikas Pandey BBC News, Delhi Rajesh Kumar, 45, started coughing in early June. Within days, he was running a high fever. He didn’t get tested for coronavirus. Instead he took anti-fever medication for five days. But the fever persisted, and soon he had difficulty breathing. His family asked him to get tested, but […]
Nupur Anand, Manoj Kumar MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of Indian exporters have been hit hard by new tax regulations, forcing some to close as doing business becomes more difficult. New Delhi said in June it had identified thousands of exporters that had claimed tax rebates based on bogus invoices and would require them to submit […]
