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  • Saudi-India
    Saudi Plan To Get Stake In India’s Largest Company Hits A Snag

    Discussions between India’s largest company, Reliance Industries, and Aramco, the world’s single biggest oil producing firm, have hit a stumbling block as the Indians want higher valuation than the Saudis are willing to pay for a stake in Reliance’s downstream business, Reuters reported on Tuesday, quoting two people with knowledge of the issue.

  • India
    India denies that Trump was invited to mediate Kashmir conflict

    Raveesh Kumar, spokesman for India's Ministry of External Affairs, tweeted late Monday that "no such request has been made" by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kumar also reiterated that the territorial dispute needs to be resolved bilaterally between India and Pakistan, who have been bitter rivals for decades.

  • Pakistan
    Pakistan ordered to review death sentence of Indian accused of spying

    he International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Pakistan to review and reconsider a death sentence handed down to a former Indian Navy officer convicted of spying. In a ruling Wednesday, the United Nations' top court found Pakistan authorities broke international law by not informing Kulbhushan Jadhav of his rights and depriving the Indian government of consular access.

  • Women
    India’s Women Warriors

    Millions of pilgrims from across India flock to one of the country's most sacred Hindu shrines every year. But Sabarimala Temple has long been off-limits to almost half the world's population. Women aged between 10 and 50 are considered impure by the hardline Hindu men who come to the temple to worship.

  • India
    Why Is India Trying to Kill Off Hedge Funds?

    That industry is domestic hedge funds, which have taken seven years to reach $6 billion in investment commitments from nothing. By contrast, equity investment in India by overseas financial investors is upward of $400 billion.

  • India
    India claims its Aadhaar push is for the ‘good’ of people despite serious privacy concerns

    Last year, India’s top court ruled that the central government’s national identification system – Aadhaar – doesn’t violate the privacy of citizens. Now, there are three major developments on this front that might put privacy activists on high alert. First, India’s parliament passed an amended bill on Aadhaar that allows voluntary use of the ID to open a bank account or get a SIM card and penalty for any private company if it stores Aadhaar data – a step to curb frequent data leaks.

  • Oil Markets
    Iran sanctions: Indian Oil is stepping up imports of US and Saudi crude

    US sanctions have forced a leading purchaser of Iranian crude exports to buy more oil from Saudi Arabia and the United States. Sanjiv Singh, head of state-run refiner Indian Oil Corporation, told CNN Business that "whatever supplies were coming from Iran, they were well distributed amongst other countries."

  • Iran
    Filling Iran oil gap in India: U.S. supplies outshine Middle East crude

    A surge in India’s oil imports from the United States outpaced growth in shipments from its traditional suppliers in the Middle East, after Washington imposed sanctions on Tehran in November, according to tanker arrival data obtained from sources.

  • India
    India sending warships to the Middle East to protect shipping

    INS Chennai, a 7,500-ton, 534-foot-long guided-missile destroyer, is one of the newest and most powerful ships in the Indian Navy. Commissioned in 2106, it carries surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles as well as rocket launchers and torpedoes, the Indian Navy says.

  • Global Population
    India to overtake China as the world’s most populous country: UN

    By 2050, the report predicts the planet's entire population will be 9.7 billion people, a staggering rise in just one century. Five years after the founding of the UN in 1950, the global population was a mere 2.6 billion people.