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Apr 17 2024
News
Ashmore Counters Consensus With Big Bet on China Over India
London-based asset manager Ashmore Group PLC is reducing its exposure to Indian equities and has made China the #1 pick in its emerging-markets fund, arguing that India’s stock market is overhyped and overcrowded while China’s is set for a rebound. With $6.5 billion invested in emerging equities, the fund has allocated 26% of its EM equity fund to China, while reducing India to less than half
BloombergApr 23 2024
Analysis
Why Did Modi Call India’s Muslims ‘Infiltrators’? Because He Could.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his power at home secured and his Hindu-first vision deeply entrenched, has set his sights in recent years on a role as a global statesman, riding India’s economic and diplomatic rise. In doing so, he has distanced himself from his party’s staple work of polarizing India’s diverse population along religious lines for its own electoral gain.
His silence
New York Times (News)Apr 16 2024
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Google Wallet appears in India, with local integrations, but Pay will stay
Google Wallet will finally launch in India — nearly two years after its relaunch as a digital wallet platform in the U.S. — according to a preview of the app that the company accidentally posted on the Google Play store in the country. After TechCrunch spotted the listing for the app — which will let users load up loyalty cards and buy things, among other features — the company declined to
TechCrunchApr 15 2024
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India's wholesale prices rise at fastest pace in three months
NEW DELHI, April 15 (Reuters) - India's wholesale price-based inflation (INWPI=ECI) in March rose 0.53%, its highest level in three months, mainly driven by food and primary articles, government data showed. That slightly outpaced the 0.51% rise expected by economists polled by Reuters and increased from a 0.20% year-on-year rise in February. Food prices rose 4.65% year on year compared with
ReutersApr 22 2024
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India's HDFC Bank surprises on margin trajectory, garnering deposits, analysts say
MUMBAI, April 22 (Reuters) - India's largest private lender HDFC Bank has surprised on deposit mobilisation and margin expansion despite a lower than expected fourth-quarter profit, analysts said. The private lender reported a sequential rise in profit but missed analysts' estimates as it set aside more funds for potential bad loans. The results have "laid down the bank's template for a
ReutersApr 18 2024
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India's Pant boosts his World Cup hopes with keeping masterclass
NEW DELHI, April 18 (Reuters) - Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant produced a wicketkeeping masterclass in Wednesday's Indian Premier League (IPL) victory against Gujarat Titans to strengthen his claim on a place in India's T20 World Cup squad. Pant is playing his first tournament since suffering serious injuries in a car accident in December 2022 that kept him out of last year's IPL as well
ReutersApr 17 2024
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Modi Wants To Dominate India's Election. One Region Stands In the Way
Under the scorching afternoon sun, a helicopter ferrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi touched down last week in territory that’s long resisted his reign. Outside the southern city of Coimbatore, India’s premier ascended a stage for an election rally that drew thousands of spectators. India’s national vote kicks off on Friday and Modi is widely expected to win a historic third term after a
BloombergApr 20 2024
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Giant extinct snake discovered in India was 50 feet long, said researchers
New research suggests an enormous snake may have once called India home. Fossilized vertebrae found near a coal mine in western India indicate that the snake was between 36 feet and 50 feet long. This is up to eight feet longer than the largest snake known to man and nearly 17 feet longer than the current largest living snake, the Associated Press reported this week. The snake weighed up to a
Fox News (Online News)Apr 23 2024
News
India's prime minister accused of using hate speech after calling Muslims 'infiltrators'
India’s main opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” — some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith — days after the country began its weeks-long general election. The remarks at a campaign rally Sunday drew fierce criticism that Modi was peddling anti-Muslim tropes. The Congress party filed a complaint
Los Angeles Times