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The crew members, whose ship was seized in December, got their release order a day before the war began. Source link

A BRITISH broadcast engineer working on Indian Premier League coverage has been found dead in a luxury Mumbai hotel. The 74-year-old, who had been working with the Board of Control for Cricket in I… Source link

Ingka Group said it has invested more than €900m ($1.03bn) in the Indian market to date. Credit: Steve Travelguide / Shutterstock.com. Ingka Group, the largest retailer operating IKEA stores worldwide, plans to expand its physical presence in India over the next five years. The Netherlands-headquartered franchisee operator aims to open 25 small and medium-sized outlets across the country….

Indian forest officials have started an investigation following social media outrage over a Russian photographer’s photoshoot for which a 65-year-old elephant was painted bright pink. Animal rights activists accused Julia Buruleva, a Barcelona-based conceptual photographer, of animal cruelty for painting the tusker in pink colour for a photoshoot in Jaipur city in the western state…

At least eight devotees, all of them women, were killed in a crowd crush at a religious gathering in a temple in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. Hundreds of devotees had gathered on Tuesday morning at the Sheetla temple in Nalanda district, about 1,100km east of the national capital of Delhi, when a sudden…

Fifty wildlife officers are now the devoted guardians of a newly-hatched great Indian bustard chick, born after a marathon road trip to provide a fertilised egg for the critically endangered bird, officials said Tuesday. The birds, metre-tall desert dwellers, have plummeted in number over the past 25 years, with only around 150 believed to remain…

The ship, MT Valiant Roar, operated by Dubai-based Prime Tankers LLC, was seized on 8 December while it was in international waters. Some of the crew members were taken to a jail in Iran’s Bandar Abbas port city, while the others were detained on the vessel. In January, their families approached a court in India,…

By Trixie Yap SINGAPORE, March 31 (Reuters) – India’s diesel exports to Southeast Asia surged to the highest in more than seven years in March, shipping data showed, as traders pivoted supply to ‌cover short positions and refiners cashed in on higher profits in Asia caused by the ‌U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. The surge in…

There were growing calls Tuesday for teenager Vaibhav Suryavanshi to be fast-tracked into India’s senior national team after slamming a 17-ball 52 to launch his IPL season. Source link