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NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWS WIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES (Note: All dollar amounts in this news release are expressed in U.S. dollars except as otherwise noted.) TORONTO, April 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fairfax India Holdings Corporation ("Fairfax India" or the "Company") (TSX: FIH.U) announces that its wholly-owned subsidiary, FIH Mauritius Investments Ltd has sold 1,742,987 equity shares, representing its entire equity interest, in Sanmar Chemical Enterprises ...Read More >
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES TORONTO, April 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fairfax India Holdings Corporation ("Fairfax India") (TSX: FIH.U) announces additional details regarding its upcoming hybrid annual shareholders' meeting. As disclosed in our annual meeting materials and on our website, the hybrid meeting will be held both in-person and virtually on Wednesday, April 15, 2026 and will commence at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time, with the fo ...Read More >
MUMBAI, India, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Lumina Datamatics, a trusted partner in providing Content Services, Retail Support Services, and Technology Solutions to global companies, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, TNQTech, has been certified as a Great Place to Work®, marking an important milestone in its journey towards building a people-centric, high-performance workplace culture. The certification reflects TNQTech's continued focus on fostering an environment that values collab ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- Indian oil refiners can shift away from Russian crude after United States President Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Moscow's two largest oil companies, but the move will come at a cost, analysts said on Friday. Trump has claimed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to cut its Russian oil imports as part of a prospective US trade deal -- something New Delhi has not confirmed. Relations between the two countries plummeted in August after Trump raised tariffs on Indi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- India retired its last fleet of Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets on Friday, ending more than six decades of service with an aircraft once celebrated for its combat prowess but later derided as a "flying coffin" due to frequent crashes. The phaseout underscores the urgency for the Indian air force to expand and modernize its air fleet to counter potential threats on two fronts from archrivals China and Pakistan. The decommissioning leaves the air force with 29 fighter squadrons, well ...Read More >
NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES TORONTO, Sept. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fairfax India Holdings Corporation ("Fairfax India") (TSX: FIH.U) announces that the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") has accepted a notice filed by Fairfax India of its intention to commence a Normal Course Issuer Bid for its Subordinate Voting Shares through the facilities of the TSX (or other alternative Canadian trading systems) effective September 30, 2025. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- India's parliament has passed a sweeping bill banning online gambling after government figures showed companies had stripped $2.3 billion annually from 450 million people. The ban impacts platforms for card games, poker and fantasy sports, including India's wildly popular homegrown fantasy cricket apps. It also leaves the fate of the key sponsor for India's national cricket team in question. Dream11, India's biggest fantasy sports gaming platform, was named on July 2023 as the co ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Friday scaled back its order to catch and remove tens of thousands of stray dogs from the capital, after feasibility questions about the sheer scale of the exercise. TEMPORARY VICTORY A stray dog is seen on a street following the verdict that modified an earlier order to relocate canines like it in India's capital New Delhi on Aug. 22, 2025. EPA PHOTO The court earlier this month handed city authorities a deadline of eight weeks to round up all dogs, order ...Read More >
Ara (Bihar): Jan Suraaj party founder Prashant Kishor on Friday was seen writhing in pain at the venue of a rally in Bihar's Bhojpur district. Kishor was accompanied, among others, by Bhojpuri singer Ritesh Pandey, who had joined the party earlier in the day. As Kishor sat in his chair, his face contorted in pain, Pandey took the mike and said, "Prashant Kishor Ji is not well. He has received a minor injury. He needs to leave." According to a leader of the Jan Suraaj party, Kishor drove back t ...Read More >
PATNA, India -- Lightning strikes during monsoon storms in eastern India this week killed at least 33 people and injured dozens, officials said on Friday. The deaths in Bihar state occurred during fierce storms between Wednesday and Thursday, a state disaster management department statement said, with the victims mostly farmers and laborers working in the open. More heavy rain and lightning are forecast for parts of the state. VERY, VERY FRIGHTENING Lightning strikes from gray skies during mo ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- Police in southern India said on Wednesday they found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave. The woman, identified as Nina Kutina, 40, and her daughters, ages 6 and 4, were found by police during a routine patrol to Ramatirtha Hill, a popular tourist site on the coast of Karnataka state, on July 9. Police officer Sridhar S.R. said the family had been living in the cave for more than a week. Police said they were taking steps to rep ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- India's Fauja Singh, believed to be the world's oldest distance runner, has died in a road accident at age 114, his biographer said on Tuesday. Singh, an Indian-born British citizen who was nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado," died after being hit by a vehicle in the Jalandhar district of northwestern Punjab state on Monday. "My Turbaned Tornado is no more," Fauja's biographer Khushwant Singh wrote on X. "He was struck by an unidentified vehicle ... in his village, Bias, while crossi ...Read More >
WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI/MONTREAL -- The US Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have privately issued notifications that the fuel switch locks on Boeing planes are safe, a document seen by Reuters showed and four sources with knowledge of the matter said. The FAA's Continued Airworthiness Notification on July 11 came after a preliminary report into Air India's Boeing 787-8 crash, which killed 260 people last month, raised questions over engine fuel cutoff switches. The FAA's notification to ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Heifer International in Asia, in collaboration with the International Cooperative Alliance - Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP), officially launched the Seeding Strength: Empowering Farmer Cooperatives - a regional awareness campaign, at a virtual event that brought together over 170 development leaders, NGO partners, cooperative champions, academics, and farmer representatives from across Asia. The initiative is part of the International Cooperative Alliance and ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- The United States has restored $6.8 million in funding for Tibetans in South Asia, the US State Department told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming comments by Tibet's government-in-exile. The aid had been cut by President Donald Trump's administration as part of its "America First" policy that hit a number of programs, including those aimed at securing food and preventing the spread of HIV in some of the world's poorest regions. Last week, the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile ...Read More >
(UPDATE) NEW DELHI -- India, the decades-long host of the Dalai Lama, called the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader a "symbol of love" on his 90th birthday Sunday, a landmark anniversary that has raised geopolitical questions for the future. The effusive support is significant, as Tibetans in exile fear China will eventually name its own rival successor to the Dalai Lama, bolstering Beijing's control over Tibet, the territory it poured troops into in 1950 and has ruled ever since. India has hoste ...Read More >
MCLEOD GANJ, India -- Calling himself a "simple Buddhist monk" who usually didn't celebrate birthdays, the Dalai Lama marked his 90th on Sunday by praying for peace after China insisted it would have the final say on who succeeded the Tibetan spiritual leader. Chanting of red-robed monks and nuns rang out from Himalayan hilltop forested temples in India, home to the Dalai Lama since he and thousands of other Tibetans fled Chinese troops who crushed an uprising in their capital Lhasa in 1959. " ...Read More >
DHARAMSHALA, India -- A senior Indian minister has said only the Dalai Lama and the organization he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment contradicting rival China's long-held position. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, said on Wednesday that upon his death he would be reincarnated as the next spiritual leader and that only the Gaden Phodrang Trust would be able t ...Read More >
HYDERABAD, India -- The death toll from Monday's massive explosion and fire at a pharmaceutical factory in India's southern state of Telangana has risen to at least 36 while about three dozen were left injured, authorities said Tuesday. The fire department recovered the charred bodies of 34 workers from the accident site in an industrial area about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the state capital Hyderabad, the state's fire services director G.V. Narayana Rao told The Associated Press. Two othe ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, June 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Alibaba.com, a leading global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, today announces the launch of its Trade Assurance service in India, marking a significant step in enhancing the trading experience for Indian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This service empowers them to manage international transactions with greater confidence, efficiency and security. Coinciding with World Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Day on June 27th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI -- Three people were killed and more than a dozen hospitalized Sunday following a sudden crowd surge at a popular Hindu festival in eastern India, a senior government official said. "There was a sudden crowd surge of devotees for having a glimpse of the Hindu deities during which few people either fainted, felt suffocated or complained of breathlessness," said Siddharth Shankar Swain, the top government official in Puri. MAD DASH Police personnel and relatives of victims, who lost th ...Read More >
BENGALURU, India, June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GameChange Solar, a leading global supplier of solar tracker and fixed-tilt racking technology, has extended its support to the Indian Institute of Technology Madras' (IIT Madras) Team AgniRath, backing their mission to develop a cutting-edge solar-powered vehicle for the 2025 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. IIT Team Agnirath with their solar power vehicle Aagneya Led by a 48-member team of undergraduate students, AgniRath represents India's pu ...Read More >
IMPHAL, India -- An Indian state riven by ethnic tensions imposed an internet shutdown and curfew after protesters clashed with security forces over the arrest of some members of a radical group, police said Sunday. Manipur in India's northeast has been rocked by periodic clashes for more than two years between the predominantly Hindu Meitei majority and the mainly Christian Kuki community that have killed more than 250 people. The latest violence was triggered Saturday after reports of the ar ...Read More >
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