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Fire at e-scooter showroom in India kills eight
The fire in the southern city of Secunderabad also injured 11 in the country’s deadliest such incident involving electric vehicles.
At least eight people have been killed and 11 injured in a fire that started at an electric scooter…
Volunteer pilots fly ‘non-stop’ to reach PNG earthquake survivors
Airlifts to remote areas of Papua New Guinea have been operated non-stop as volunteer rescuers attempt to reach victims who remain stranded two days after a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
The quake, which hit on Sunday at about 9:45…
Indian SC likely to hear pleas challenging citizenship law tomorrow
Indian Supreme Court is likely to hear -- tomorrow (September 12, 2022) -- a batch of pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) which seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim migrants from…
India, Bangladesh ink 7 agreements
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held bilateral talks in New Delhi to review and further strengthen the all-encompassing India-Bangladesh partnership.
Seven Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),…
India’s flooded tech hub faces fresh chaos as more rain is forecast
Weather officials are predicting further bouts of severe weather in Bengaluru as torrential rains pounded the city, submerged access to office parks and hit back-office operations that are the nerve centre of the global financial and…
India’s Bengaluru flooded after torrential rain
Parts of the southern Indian city of Bengaluru have been flooded after heavy rain, disrupting life in the country’s IT hub on Tuesday.
People used boats and tractors for transport as dozens of houses and vehicles in low-lying areas were…
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry dies in road accident
Cyrus Mistry, scion of one of India’s most illustrious business families who formerly headed the nation’s biggest business group, died in a road accident near Mumbai on Sunday.
Mistry, 54, was travelling from Ahmedabad in Gujarat state…
India launches new aircraft carrier as concerns over China grow
India has commissioned its first home-built aircraft carrier as it seeks to counter China’s much larger and growing fleet of warships and also expand India’s indigenous ship-building capabilities.
The INS Vikrant, whose name is the…
New Delhi to commission first made-in-India aircraft carrier on Sept 2
India will commission its first domestically built aircraft carrier, the INS Vikrant, on Sept 2, the Indian Navy has announced.
Alongside the INS Vikramaditya, which was purchased from Russia, India will now have two aircraft carriers in…
India works to avoid panic over rice with targeted export curb
India's potential clampdown on exports of broken rice shows the world's top shipper trying to thread the needle of cooling domestic inflation without causing global panic.
The government is discussing curbs on broken rice exports, which…