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AFP | Mumbai Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com Football icon Lionel Messi's second day in India passed smoothly Sunday, after a chaotic opening to his three-day tour, as the World Cup winner kicked balls into the crowd and met cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. Messi greeted excited fans decked out in Argentina football jerseys at a packed Wankhede stadium in India's financial hub Mumbai, as supporters chanted his name. The 38-year-old Argentina and Inter Miami superstar took centre stage in th ...Read More >
New Delhi: India's aviation sector is reeling from a severe crisis as IndiGo, the country's largest airline, cancels hundreds of flights, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and sparking a dramatic surge in domestic airfares. The chaos began on Wednesday, with IndiGo citing pilot shortages and operational glitches as the reason for the cancellations. As of Friday, over 1,300 flights have been grounded, with Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports among the worst affected. The sudd ...Read More >
AFP | Sriharikota Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com India launched its heaviest ever communication satellite on Sunday, the latest step in the country's ambitious space programme. The CMS-03 satellite blasted off from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh at 5:26 pm (1156 GMT). "Our space sector continues to make us proud!" said Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who wants to send an Indian astronaut to the Moon by 2040. Weighing about 4,410 kilograms (9,722 pounds), it is "the heav ...Read More >
AFP | New Delhi Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air. Cloud seeding is the practice of using aeroplanes to fire salt or other chemicals into clouds to induce rain. New Delhi city authorities, working with the government's Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, launched a test run on Thursday afternoon using a Cessna light a ...Read More >
AFP | New Delhi Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com India yesterday signed a $7 billion order for 97 domestically designed and built Tejas fighter jets as its air force retires its outgoing Russian MiG-21 jets after decades of use. The first Tejas jets -- meaning "brilliance" in Hindi -- were commissioned into the airforce in 2016, with the latest commission for the fourth-generation version of the fighter, Mk-1A. India has made the modernisation of its forces a top priority, and made repeated ...Read More >
AFP | London Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com KL Rahul made exactly 100 but England still slowed India's charge on the third day of the third Test at Lord's with two key wickets either side of lunch. India were poised to bat through yesterday's morning session without losing a wicket. But in the last over before lunch, Rishabh Pant was run out for a typically dynamic 74 by England captain Ben Stokes's direct hit as he tried to get Rahul, 98 not out at the interval, back on strike to complete ...Read More >
AFP | New Delhi Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday he will attend the Group of Seven leaders summit in Canada this month after receiving an invitation from the new Canadian premier. India is not a member of the G7 but Modi has been invited to attend previous summits since 2019, when France invited him to Biarritz. "Glad to receive a call from Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada," Modi said in a statement posted on social media. "Congratulat ...Read More >
AFP | Mumbai Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com India India's central bank cut interest rates more than expected yesterday, citing muted inflation and a need to kickstart economic growth as the impact of US tariffs weighed on the country's outlook. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered the benchmark repo rate, the level at which it lends to commercial banks, by 50 basis points to 5.5%. A majority of analysts had expected 25-basis-point reduction. The cut was its third in a row and comes a w ...Read More >
AFP | Ahmedabad Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com Punjab Kings stand in the way of Virat Kohli's dream of finally winning the Indian Premier League in today's final at the world's biggest cricket stadium. No matter which team prevails at the 132,000-capacity venue in Ahmedabad it will be a first -- neither Punjab nor Kohli's Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won the IPL since it launched in 2008. Punjab booked their place in the decider with a five-wicket victory over five-time champions Mumba ...Read More >
AFP | New Delhi Email : editor@newsofbahrain.com India Indian airline IndiGo said yesterday it had signed an order for 30 more Airbus A350-900s, bringing its shopping list for the widebody aircraft from the European aircraft manufacturer to 60. "We are placing a firm order for 30 Airbus A350- 900s," said Pieter Elbers, the CEO of IndiGo, which was founded in 2006 and is behind the largest contract by volume in the history of civil aviation -- 500 Airbus single-aisle aircraft by 2023. The low ...Read More >
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