By Anushka Trivedi MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee eased against the dollar on Tuesday as Treasury yields rose on increasing bets of a Federal Reserve rate hike following more robust U.S. data. The rupee finished at 82.04 per dollar, compared with 81.9725 in the previous session. The dollar index gave up gains late in …
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By Munsif Vengattil NEW DELHI (Reuters) – It took Apple Inc 15 years from when it first started selling its iPhone in India to having a company-run retail store in now the world’s second biggest smartphone market, one where it has faced several business challenges. As Apple opens its first stores, here is a timeline …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka is considering a proposal by a Chinese private company to export 100,000 endemic monkeys to China, a government minister said on Tuesday, sparking protests from animal protection groups. The island’s agriculture minister has appointed a committee to evaluate the proposal to export 100,000 toque macaques, found only …
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By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A mountaineer from Northern Ireland died while descending from the summit of the world’s 10th highest peak and an Indian climber is missing on the same mountain, climbing officials said on Tuesday. Noel Hanna, who had climbed Mount Everest 10 times, scaled the 8,091 metres (26,545 feet) Annapurna peak …
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By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A Chinese national in Pakistan has denied an accusation of blasphemy levelled by fellow workers on a hydropower project who said he had insulted the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Tuesday after a court remanded him in judicial custody. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan and though no …
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(Reuters) – China’s economy grew at a faster-than-expected clip in the first quarter, official data showed on Tuesday, expanding 4.5% year-on-year, as policymakers move to bolster growth following the end of strict COVID-19 curbs in December. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected gross domestic product (GDP) to expand 4.0% from a year earlier, quickening from …
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KOLKATA (Reuters) – Authorities in parts of India have shut schools for a week after they recorded sweltering temperatures of more than 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). At least two states, Tripura in the northeast and West Bengal in the east, ordered schools to shut this week, as temperatures rose more than 5 Celsius above normal, …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. federal agents arrested two New York residents for allegedly operating a Chinese “secret police station” in the Chinatown district of Manhattan on Monday in what prosecutors said was part of a crackdown on Beijing’s alleged targeting of dissidents. Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping, 59, face charges of …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven rich nations on Tuesday G7 condemned Russia’s “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric” as “unacceptable” and called on China to act as a responsible member of the international community. The ministers made their statements in a communique as they wrapped up a three-day meeting in the Japanese resort …
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By Bernadette Christina, Fransiska Nangoy and Yantoultra Ngui JAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Indonesian nickel company Merdeka Battery Materials surged as much as 15.1% in its trading debut on Tuesday after raising 8.75 trillion rupiah ($591.82 million) in the country’s third largest initial public offering this year. The positive debut signals investors’ growing appetite for Indonesia’s nickel processing …
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