India

With chants of “Long live Kamala Harris,” fireworks and prayers, residents of a tiny Indian village celebrated her inauguration as U.S. vice president

The Indian village of Thulasendrapuram, the birthplace of Vice President Kamala Harris’ grandfather, held festivities to coincide with her historic inauguration.

Netflix’s The Queens Gambit may have popularised chess for modern audiences, but Nikhil Kamath, co-founder of Indian trading platform Zerodha, liked it way before it was cool.

Zydus Cadila said on Jan. 3 that it received approval from India’s drug regulator to begin the phase three clinical trial of its DNA vaccine for Covid-19.

Indian markets have performed relatively well in recent months following a sharp sell-off in March.

The Reserve Bank of India has kept interest rates unchanged since May.

Thousands of Indian farmers have protested for weeks against three agricultural reforms that they said would lower crop prices and hurt their earnings.

Indian health officials say they have found traces of nickel and lead in a few blood samples taken from hundreds of patients who have been hospitalized by a mysterious illness in a southern state

Farmers, mostly from the northern states of Punjab and Haryana, have been protesting against three farm reforms that were enacted into law this year.

The Reserve Bank of India held its benchmark repo rate — the rate at which it lends to commercial banks — at 4%.

Tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from northern states like Punjab and Haryana, have taken to the streets in protest against farm reforms.

India’s nonfinancial companies would see their earnings grow as demand starts to recover, following a sharp drop over the last two quarters, Moody’s said.

As of Friday’s close, both the Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex sat close to all-time highs that were touched in recent days.

Economists in a Reuters poll predicted that India’s economy shrank 8.8% in the September quarter.

India has blocked at least 220 Chinese mobile apps, some of them made by China’s prominent consumer-facing tech companies like ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba.

India was part of the early negotiations for RCEP but said last year it would not join the world’s largest trading bloc.

India’s generic drugmakers will have an “essential” role to play in manufacturing and distributing Covid-19 therapeutics to low- and middle-income countries.

Many organizations are aiming to increase the amount of green space in urban environments.

Paytm says it has more than 50% market share in the merchant payments segment and provides services including in areas of banking and wealth management.

China and 14 other Asia-Pacific countries signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP — the world’s largest trade agreement.