India has blocked mobile internet services around New Delhi where hundreds of farmers are staging a one-day hunger strike in protest at new agriculture laws. The interior ministry said internet services at three locations on the outskirts of the capital
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Indian army helicopter crashes in Kashmir hours after Pakistan violates ceasefire
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The Dhruv chopper crash-landed in Lakhanpur of Jammu and Kashmir. Two pilots who have received grievous injuries
Digital payments in India get WhatsApp boost
Digital payments in India registered significant growth in recent months amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a trend likely to be further reinforced with the launch of a payment facility on WhatsApp earlier this month. The number of Unified Payments Interface-based (UPI-based)
DBS has the firepower to right LVB ship
Fortune favours the brave, as the saying goes. The question for DBS is whether the Reserve Bank of India’s call to amalgamate troubled Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) with the Singapore bank has fortune written all over it. Please subscribe or
China furious as Australia, India, Japan and US showcase military might with navy drills
We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Naval ships, aircraft and personnel from Australia, India, Japan, and the United States started the Malabar exercise
India's coronavirus surge eases slightly as millions take exams, pubs reopen
BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s tally of coronavirus infections surged to nearly 3.7 million on Tuesday, as millions of masked students sat for college admission exams after the government refused to defer them. India, the world’s third most affected country by
GIC and co-investors buy Reliance's Indian telecom towers for US$3.4 billion
BENGALURU (REUTERS) – GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, said on Tuesday (Sept 1) that its affiliates and a group of investors, including Canada’s Brookfield Infrastructure Partners, bought an Indian telecom tower company from a unit of Reliance Industries for US$3.4
Indian army says thwarts Chinese attempt to occupy hill on disputed border
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian forces foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to occupy a hill on the Asian giants’ disputed border in the western Himalayas, officials in New Delhi said on Monday, following the latest flare-up between the two
India says foils new Chinese attempt to alter status quo at disputed border
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Chinese troops to change the status quo on their disputed and ill-defined border in a fresh flare-up between the two nuclear-armed countries. “On the Night of
Indian government keen to speed up stake sale in four banks, sources say
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s office has asked officials to speed up the process of trimming government stakes in at least four primarily state-owned banks within the current fiscal year, according to two officials familiar with