All news on the topic: India

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"Horror moment": Injured leopard tackles forest official to the ground on busy Indian highway
This is the horror moment a ferocious leopard tackles a man to the ground on a busy motorway.
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Nepal flood death toll hits 359 as 33 Britons remain missing after catastrophic flash floods
The Nepal flood death toll has risen to 359 as the search continues for dozens of missing Britons.
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"Like a bomb": Himalayan glacier collapse triggers deadly Nepal floods as hundreds of tourists remain missing
More than 300 tourists, including 33 Britons and 54 Americans, are missing after devastating flash floods wiped out buildings and bridges along the Nepal-Tibet border.
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US sells two sanctioned oil tankers seized after Venezuela raid for scrap
The U.S. government has sold for scrap two sanctioned oil tankers that were seized in the days after Washington’s raid on Venezuela, Lloyd’s List reported ‌on Monday.
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239 lawsuits and 595 years of litigation: How Big Food fights efforts to curb unhealthy products
Bad diets kill millions of people globally every year, and lead to tens of billions of dollars in health costs, often placing the heaviest burden on communities who are least able to afford it. Children, with limited decision-making power, are particularly vulnerable to this.
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Former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal convicted of raping journalist after acquittal overturned
An Indian court has found a high-profile former editor of an investigative news magazine guilty of raping a junior colleague, reversing his previous acquittal in a case that captured nationwide attention.
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India police detain suspects in cyber fraud crackdown linked to 40 scam cases
Police in the Indian state of Goa arrested seven people and summoned 24 others for questioning in connection with 40 cyber fraud cases that caused nearly $262,000 in losses.
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Russia assembles record Arctic oil tanker fleet to boost crude exports to Asia
Russia has assembled an unprecedented fleet of oil tankers in the Arctic as it accelerates crude exports to Asia via the Northern Sea Route, with vessels carrying roughly 8 million barrels of oil already transiting or waiting to enter the ice-covered shipping lane.
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Pentagon fuel contract linked to alleged front for sanctioned Lebanese brothers
The U.S. government bought millions of dollars worth of fuel for its consulate in northern Iraq from a company whose local subcontractor on the deal was owned by a man described by a U.S. official as a front in a company for two blacklisted Lebanese brothers, documents show.
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European goods reach Russia through India despite sanctions
Russian defense and security firms are using supply chains in India to import thousands of security-linked goods originally made in Europe, new data tracking the scale of the trade shows.
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Dragons’ Den star Tej Lalvani sells Vitabiotics in £1bn deal with Bain Capital
Dragons’ Den star Tej Lalvani has agreed to sell his family’s vitamins empire to a US private equity giant in a deal worth around £1bn.
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Leopard storms into Indian shop and attacks worker in terrifying CCTV footage
Footage shows the terrifying moment a leopard entered a shop in India and jumped on a worker.
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Trump imposes new 10% tariffs on UK and 60 other countries over forced labour concerns
Donald Trump will press ahead with a new 10% import tariff on UK goods, along with 60 other nations, over claims trading partners failed to properly stop forced labour.
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Three British Airways pilots struck by food poisoning during flight after hotel breakfast in India
Three pilots on board a British Airways flight suffered food poisoning while mid-air – almost exactly mirroring the plot of hit comedy, Airplane.
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More than 1,000 jobs linked to Russia’s shadow fleet advertised by foreign crewing companies
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, companies from Kazakhstan, Cyprus, India, Moldova, Georgia, and Ukraine itself have published at least 1,000 job ads recruiting sailors for vessels in Russia’s “shadow fleet”.
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EU-funded facial recognition technology powers mass surveillance in India
From Delhi to Jaipur, India is rolling out facial recognition technology to monitor millions of its citizens. Investigate Europe has found that behind much of the software is Spanish company Herta Security – but critics argue the government promise of public safety is not the main aim.
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Exiled Sheikh Hasina vows return to Bangladesh despite death sentence
Ousted Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing a death sentence back home where her party is banned, told Reuters she and senior party colleagues plan to return from exile in India around December and surrender.
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Mystery "space balls" washing up on Australian beaches identified as debris from a foreign rocket
The Australian Space Agency has said the six so-called “space balls” found in north Queensland were likely from a “foreign rocket body” that had recently re-entered the atmosphere after being in orbit.
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Leaked files expose Apple iPhone 18 Pro suppliers after cyberattack on Tata Electronics
Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, and photos of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the ‌dark web by the ransomware group that stole data from the U.S. firm’s Indian supplier Tata Electronics, according to documents and a source.
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Fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi ordered to pay $11.5m as UK court backs Bank of India
Fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi is liable to pay Bank of India over USD 11.5 million, including accruing interest on a personal loan guarantee, the High Court in London has ruled.
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Tata cyber breach exposes Apple and Tesla files in massive 200,000-file leak
Tata Electronics said on Monday it had detected a recent "cybersecurity incident", after researchers said World Leaks posted purported component design and specification papers of Apple and Tesla, both customers of the Indian group.
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Jaskirat Singh jailed over £185,000 migrant-smuggling operation to France
An Indian man who admitted smuggling migrants from the UK to France in the back of trucks has been jailed for more than five years by a court in south-east England.
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Hot mic catches Starmer and Modi saying they resolved UK-India trade dispute
A hot microphone caught British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Narendra Modi signalling they resolved a bilateral trade impasse during the G7 summit in Evian, France.
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Bank staff corruption charges dropped in $1.85bn PNB fraud as Nirav Modi case continues
Corruption charges against bank staff in the $1.85 billion PNB fraud have been dropped, after the Central Bureau of Investigation conceded there was no evidence to support them.
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New details emerge in Elephant and Castle family deaths after 36th-floor tragedy
The tragic final few days of a family at the center of a suspected murder-suicide pact have finally been revealed, as friends say they “seemed normal”.