FILE PHOTO: Employees of Amazon India are seen behind a glass bearing the company’s logo inside its office in Bengaluru, India, August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa/File photo (This March 11 story has been refiled to reflect changed name of Zee Enter... More »
Mar 4, 2018- Mexico City, MEX- Phil Mickelson poses with the winner’s trophy following the final round of the WGC – Mexico Championship golf tournament at Club de Golf Chapultepec. Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – Phil Mickelson ended a five-year v... More »
Mar 4, 2018- Mexico City, MEX- Shubhankar Sharma watches his shot from the seventh tee during the final round of the WGC – Mexico Championship golf tournament at Club de Golf Chapultepec. Mandatory Credit: Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – Shubhanka... More »
Mar 4, 2018- Mexico City, MEX- Justin Thomas plays his shot from the second tee during the final round of the WGC – Mexico Championship golf tournament at Club de Golf Chapultepec. Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – Americans Justin Thomas and Phil M... More »
Mar 1, 2018- Mexico City, MEX- Shubhankar Sharma plays his shot from the fifth tee during the first round of the WGC – Mexico Championship golf tournament at Club de Golf Chapultepec. Mandatory Credit: Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – Shubhankar Sh... More »
Mar 1, 2018- Mexico City, MEX- Louis Oosthuizen plays a shot from a bunker on the 14th hole during the first round of the WGC – Mexico Championship golf tournament at Club de Golf Chapultepec. Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports (Reuters) – A late eagle boosted s... More »
FILE PHOTO: An elephant walks in Amboseli National Park in front of Kilimanjaro Mountain, Kenya, March 19, 2017. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The most comprehensive elephant genome study ever conducted, covering seven living and ex... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Punjab National Bank, India’s second-largest state-run lender, sought to soothe investors on Thursday after the discovery of a $1.77 billion scam at a single branch sent its shares plunging and raised fears about the scale of fraud in the... More »
FILE PHOTO: Delta planes line up at their gates while on the tarmac of Salt Lake City International Airport in Utah September 28, 2013. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo (Reuters) – European planemaker Airbus SE and U.S.-based Delta Air Lines Inc have formed an... More »
FILE PHOTO: Actress Sridevi Kapoor arrives for the gala presentation of “English Vinglish” at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, September 14, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian actress Sridevi, arguably Bollywood’s fi... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia, the United States, India and Japan are talking about establishing a joint regional infrastructure scheme as an alternative to China’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative in an attempt to counter Beijing’s spreading influe... More »
GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – A landmine explosion killed four people, including an election candidate, in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya in an area where four militant groups are seeking independence, police said on Monday. The attack happened on Sunda... More »
A pigeon flies past the logo of Punjab National Bank outside a branch of the bank in New Delhi, India February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s federal police has sealed the Mumbai branch of Punjab National Bank (PNBK.NS) at the cent... More »
A pigeon flies past the logo of Punjab National Bank outside a branch of the bank in New Delhi, India February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Punjab National Bank branch in south Mumbai sits just down the road from both the Bomb... More »
FILE PHOTO: Labourers work behind an advertisement of Reliance Industries Limited at a construction site in Mumbai, India, March 2, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Reliance Industries Ltd and global technology companies wil... More »
FILE PHOTO: A man using a mobile phone passes the logo of global secure financial messaging services cooperative SWIFT at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren /File Photo MUMBAI (Reuters... More »
FILE PHOTO: The logo of India’s largest e-commerce firm Flipkart is seen on the facade of the company’s headquarters in Bengaluru, India July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa/File Photo MUMBAI (Reuters) – Walmart Inc (WMT.N) is in talks to buy a stake of... More »
People stand in front of the logo of Punjab National Bank outside a branch of the bank in New Delhi, India February 15, 2018. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – Indian investigators raided the offices of jewelry retailer Gitanjali on Friday in a ... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s fraud-hit Punjab National Bank (PNBK.NS) is considering monetizing its real estate assets, including a giant office space in New Delhi worth an estimated 50 billion rupees ($778.63 million), a bank source with direct knowledge of ... More »
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FILE PHOTO: A Singtel logo is pictured at their head office in Singapore February 11, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) said it would spend up to $413 million on shares in India’s Bharti Telecom, lif... More »
Commuters disembark from a suburban train at a railway station in Mumbai, India, February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to provide health insurance for about half the country’s population wou... More »
Employees arrange tomatoes before weighing them at a Big Basket warehouse on the outskirts of Mumbai November 4, 2014. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui MUMBAI (Reuters) – A unit of China’s Alibaba has invested $146 million in Indian online grocer BigBasket, strengtheni... More »
Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Duterte gestures during a news conference on the sidelines of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Pasay, metro Manila, Philippines, November 14, 2017. REUTERS/Dondi Tawatao NEW DELHI (Reu... More »
Hilary Howes packs up the ‘Doomsday Clock’ after it was announced by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that the hands have been moved to two minutes until midnight at a news conference in Washington, U.S. January 25, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis (Reuters) – S... More »
Bill Ford, executive chairman of the Ford Motor Company and Jim Hackett (R), President and CEO, present the 2019 Ford Ranger during the Ford press preview at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., January 14, 2018. REUTERS/Rebec... More »
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal has joined hands with China to offer internet services to its citizens, officials said on Friday, ending India’s decades-long monopoly of the Himalayan nation’s cyber connectivity network. For years, Nepal depended on Indian telecom... More »
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India launched its 100th satellite on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to project the country as a global low-cost provider of services in space. A total of 31 small satellites were launched into space on Friday. More than hal... More »
FILE PHOTO: A container ship is seen at the shipping terminal Eurokai in the Port of Hamburg, Germany November 6, 2017. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Euro zone factories ended 2017 growing at their fastest pace in more than two ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators hold placards calling for the release of Raza Mehmood Khan, a member of Aghaz-i-Dosti (Start of Friendship), a group that works on peace building between Pakistan and India, during a protest in Lahore, Pakistan December 11, 2017. REUT... More »
Australian police patrol the area where a driver on Thursday deliberately ploughed into pedestrians in central Melbourne, Australia, December 22, 2017. REUTERS/Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Nearly half the 19 people injured when a driver with no known extr... More »
FILE PHOTO: Brokers trade at their computer terminals at a stock brokerage firm in Mumbai, India, February 17, 2016. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade MUMBAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Funds raised in India through share sales reached the most in a decade this year thanks t... More »
LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds and other managers of catastrophe bond funds racked up some of the worst losses in more than a decade from this year’s hurricanes and wildfires. But a year that is shaping up to be the costliest on record for insurance losses fro... More »
Supporters of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate the initial poll results outside the party headquarters in New Delhi, India December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was set to win an ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Fishing trawlers are seen in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) in Mumbai, India, July 31, 2015. REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade/File Photo GLOBAL BUSINESS WEEK AHEAD – SEARCH GLOBAL BUSINESS 11 DEC FOR ALL IMAGES NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’... More »
FILE PHOTO: A logo of Siemens is pictured on a building in Mexico City, Mexico, May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Siemens said it has agreed to buy Luxembourg-based Fast Track Diagnostics to boost its molecular-testing offer... More »
FILE PHOTO: A woman talks on her mobile phone on a pavement in Kolkata, India July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has increased the import tax on dozens of electronic products such as mobile phones and television set... More »
The 21st Century Fox logo is seen outside the News Corporation headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File photo (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s deal with Twenty-First Century Fox Inc gives the world’s best-known enter... More »
FILE PHOTO: Commuters pass by the front of the Bangladesh central bank building in Dhaka, Bangladesh on March 8, 2016. REUTERS/Ashikur Rahman/File Photo DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s central bank has asked the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to join a lawsui... More »
FILE PHOTO – A woman walks past Didi Chuxing’s booth at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) 2017 in Beijing, China April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee MEXICO CITY/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing behemoth, plans to expand int... More »
U.S. Secretary for Defense, Jim Mattis, sits opposite Britain’s Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson, before a meeting at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in central London, Britain November 10, 2017. REUTERS/Simon Dawson ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – U.S. De... More »
FILE PHOTO: A Infosys employee stands at the front desk of its headquarters in Bengaluru, India, April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Abhishek N. Chinnappa/File photo MUMBAI (Reuters) – After well over a decade with Capgemini, Salil Parekh is returning home to head unsettl... More »
Abidali Neemuchwala, Wipro’s chief executive, addresses the media during a briefing to announce the company’s quarterly results at its headquarters in Bengaluru, India, April 20, 2016. REUTERS/Abishek Chinnappa (Reuters) – Wipro Ltd (WIPR.NS), India’s No.3 sof... More »
A manufacturer displays camera housing during the China Public Security Expo in Shenzhen, China October 30, 2017. Picture taken Octoberr 30, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Global manufacturing expanded at the fastest pace in years last mo... More »
FILE PHOTO: An actor dressed as a ‘Yeti’ waves from a tour bus during a promotional event for Travel Channel’s “Expedition Unknown: Hunt for the Yeti” in Manhattan, New York City, U.S. on October 4, 2016. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters... More »
Uber’s Asia Pacific Chief Business Officer Brooks Entwistle gives an interview to Reuters in Tokyo, Japan, November 27, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon TOKYO (Reuters) – Uber executives are travelling the globe to reassure regulators that the company is changing ... More »
The Google logo is pictured atop an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. August 7, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Monday it had been informed by Google that the search engine does not cha... More »
FILE PHOTO – The Uber logo is seen on a screen in Singapore August 4, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas White/File Picture MUMBAI (Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies will partner with automaker Mahindra and Mahindra to add electric vehicles on its platform in I... More »
Hafiz Saeed is showered with flower petals as he walks to court before a Pakistani court ordered his release from house arrest in Lahore, Pakistan November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza LAHORE/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A firebrand Pakistani Islamist accused of mas... More »
FILE PHOTO: Jason Day tees off on the first hole during the final round singles matches of The President’s Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports SYDNEY (Reuters) – A charging Jason Day drilled a bir... More »
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepalis vote on Sunday to choose a new parliament and seven state assemblies hoping to end years of fickle coalitions and complete a tumultuous transition, more than a decade after the end of a civil war. The two-phase election is also ex... More »
A logo of ThyssenKrupp AG is pictured outside the ThyssenKrupp headquarters in Essen, November 23, 2017. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen ESSEN, Germany (Reuters) – Demand for next-generation lifts and car components enabled Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) to report its highes... More »
An ambulance arrives as people stand at the entrance of the emergency department of a government-run hospital in New Delhi, India, November 22, 2017. Picture taken November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Saumya Khandelwal NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has approved a three-ye... More »
FILE PHOTO: A boat is seen close to oil installations at Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela October 5, 2017. Picture taken October 5, 2017. REUTERS/Isaac Urrutia HOUSTON/DUBAI (Reuters) – As Venezuela’s dilapidated energy sector struggles to pump enough crud... More »
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Developing new front-line antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and using technology for early diagnosis are among key steps needed to sustain momentum in fighting HIV/Aids and ending the disease as a public health threat by 2030, UNAIDS said in a r... More »
The producers of "Padmavati" - a Bollywood movie based on an epic poem about a Rajput queen, said on Sunday they had indefinitely delayed the release of the film, which has been accused of distorting history and has sparked protests. More »
India has awarded a "geographical indications" tag to rosogolla, the king of Indian sweets, after a years-long battle between two neighboring states over the ownership rights. More »
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the plight of Rohingya refugees and extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at a summit of Asian and Western leaders on Tuesday, sensitive human rights issues skirted by almost all the others. More »
Uber's [UBER.UL] chief of policy for India and South Asia has quit, two sources familiar with the matter said on Monday, in the latest high-level departure at the online taxi company. More »
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India plans to spray water over its capital, New Delhi, to combat toxic smog that has triggered a pollution emergency, officials said on Friday, with conditions expected to worsen over the weekend. More »
The outsourcing industry in the Philippines, which has dethroned India as the country with the most call centers in the world, is worried that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) will eat into the $23 billion sector. More »
A 17th century map of Australia, predating British settlement, has gone on display for the first time after suffering extensive damage while purportedly housed for hundreds of years in a Swedish warehouse. More »
Torrent Pharmaceuticals said on Friday it would buy more than 120 brands from Unichem Laboratories in India and Nepal, and its manufacturing plant at Sikkim. More »
Annual deaths from measles dropped below 100,000 worldwide last year for the first time, to 90,000, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international agencies said on Thursday. More »
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India is likely to stick to its fiscal deficit target of 3.2 percent of GDP, and may accelerate sales of government stakes in lenders and other companies as part of an effort to recapitalize banks, an adviser to the prime minister said on Tuesday. More »
Cyber security watchdogs and researchers are issuing warnings over risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after the discovery of a flaw that could allow hackers to read information thought to be encrypted, or infect websit... More »
BASF has agreed to buy seed and herbicide businesses from Bayer for 5.9 billion euros ($7 billion) in cash, as Bayer tries to convince competition authorities to approve its planned acquisition of Monsanto. More »
Fostering monetary conditions conducive to economic growth were a constant consideration for Indian policymakers, but would not take priority over achieving the central bank's inflation target, Governor Urjit Patel told a newspaper on Monday. More »
The World Solar Challenge began on Sunday with 42 solar cars crossing Australia's tropical north to its southern shores, a grueling 3,000 km (1,864 mile) race through the outback. More »
Asian currencies, on an upswing since the start of the year, are unlikely to trade higher than they are now in a year, held back as the U.S. Federal Reserve presses on with further interest rate rises, a Reuters poll found. More »
Aamir Khan, the Bollywood superstar with a conscience, says his next movie about a small town teenage girl who uses the Internet to become a singing sensation will be much bigger than his last film, which was India's highest grossing ever. More »
A rush hour stampede during a sudden monsoon downpour at a railway-station in India's financial hub of Mumbai killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 30, an Indian state official said on Friday. More »
A new typhoid vaccine developed by privately-held Bharat Biotech proved safe and highly immunogenic in a study and could be used to prevent millions of infections if it succeeds in final-stage clinical trials, researchers said on Friday. More »
A Sri Lankan man who raised suspicion by the way he kept looking around in an airport departure lounge was found to be carrying nearly a kilogram (2.2 lb) of gold stashed in his rectum, a customs official said on Monday. More »
An affiliate of Amazon.com Inc has agreed to buy a 1.79 billion-rupee ($27.6 million) stake in Indian retailer Shoppers Stop Ltd, the Indian company said in a filing. More »
India could be forced to cut spending on key infrastructure such as railways and highways as lower-than-expected tax collections and sluggish growth have upset the government's budget calculations, two finance ministry officials said. More »
Alphabet Inc's Google on Monday launched a localized payments app for India as it tries to gain a foothold in the country's rapidly-growing digital payments space. More »
The top U.N. human rights official on Monday denounced Myanmar's "brutal security operation" against Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine state which he said was "clearly disproportionate" to insurgent attacks carried out last month. More »
India has won a price cut on a 20-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) deal with global giant ExxonMobil Corp (XOM.N) in a rare contract renegotiation, a bad sign for producers in a heavily oversupplied global market. More »
Wu Yibing gave China its first boys' grand slam singles champion at the U.S. Open on Sunday, hailing his triumph at Flushing Meadows as proof that his country's males were also capable of playing good tennis. More »
India's aggressive push to electrify all new vehicles by 2030 is compelling auto part manufacturers and carmakers to draw up early plans for electrification, company executives said. More »
Ford Motor Co's premium Lincoln brand plans to offer hybrid gasoline-electric versions of all its U.S. models by 2022, according to three sources familiar with the plans. More »
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the two Asian giants are development opportunities for each other, not threats, China's foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, told a regular news briefing on Tuesday. More »
China wants to put its relationship with India on the "right track", President Xi Jinping told Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a meeting in Xiamen, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday. More »
Indian Foreign Secretary Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Indian and Chinese troops must maintain cooperation to ensure that a recent confrontation on their common border did not happen again. More »
China's President Xi Jinping told India's Prime Minister Modi on Tuesday that the two countries should respect each other and safeguard peace in border areas, according to the state-owned People's Daily. More »
Making movies gets more terrifying the older you get, British actress Judi Dench said on Monday, a day after her latest royal comedy drama "Victoria & Abdul" premiered at the Venice film festival. More »
India's eighth navigation satellite imploded shortly after lift off on Thursday, state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said. More »
Asian giants China and India have great potential for cooperation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday, seeking to cast the neighbors' difficult ties in a positive light ahead of a visit next week by India's prime minister. More »
Evolva (EVE.S) is cutting 43 percent of its workforce, paring locations and jettisoning additional management by year's end as the Swiss-based sugar substitute maker seeks to arrest widening losses, it said in a statement on Wednesday. More »
India and China have agreed to an "expeditious disengagement" of troops at a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in stand-off for more than two months, the South Asian nation's foreign ministry said on Monday. More »
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India's economic growth likely accelerated to 6.6 percent in the quarter just ended, but analysts polled by Reuters are sounding increasingly worried that confusion over a new goods and services tax will dampen activity in coming months. More »
Viktor Axelsen blanked China's five-times winner Lin Dan 22-20 21-16 to become the third Danish man to win the world championship title and Japan's Nozomi Okuhara beat India's Pusarla Sindhu 21-19 20-22 22-20 in an epic women's final on Sunday. More »
Shares of India's Infosys Ltd fell as much as 4.6 percent on Monday to a near three-year low, slumping for a second consecutive session, after brokerages including Nomura downgraded the stock following the resignation of its chief executive. More »
India's health ministry has trimmed its cost estimates for extending its main public health program by 25 percent after criticism from a federal think-tank over inefficiency and slow progress, according to government documents seen by Reuters. More »
The United States, Australia and Japan on Monday urged the international community to pressure North Korea to abandon its "threatening and provocative path" and apply additional diplomatic and economic measures on Pyongyang over its missile tests. More »
Asian investors, wary that the region’s stock markets and currencies have run up too far too fast and wondering whether it is time to take some money off the table, are finding that their concerns are not being reflected in major gauges of volatility and fear.... More »
