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By Sudarshan VaradhanCHENNAI( Reuters)-India has urged utilities to import coal despite having the

By Muyu Xu and Sudarshan VaradhanBEIJING/ CHENNAI( Reuters)-Thermal coal prices across Asia hit new

India on Tuesday allowed power producers to expedite imports of coal to use for up to 10% of blends with the domestic grade to meet increased power demand in a move that could push up already high global prices. Asia's third-largest economy is facing large-scale outages as several power plants have low coal inventories amid a sharp spike in global energy prices.So far power plants that use local coal import little. The note said supply from state-run Coal India Ltd is not commensurate with the s

CHENNAI: Apple Inc supplier Foxconn is unlikely to reopen its shuttered iPhone manufacturing facility in southern India until Jan 7, a senior government official familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Foxconn plant, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, was closed on Dec.... 18, following protests over 250 of its workers being treated for food poisoning. Apple has since placed the factory on probation after discovering that some dormitories and dining rooms did not meet required standards. Th

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Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for Sunday's killings, or for an incident the previous day in which two other migrant workers were shot dead.... Muslim-majority Kashmir is claimed in full by India and Pakistan but divided between them. The Indian-ruled part has witnessed a decades-long armed insurrection that has only begun targeting migrant workers in recent weeks. New Delhi accuses Islamabad of supporting the militants.... Pakistan denies the charge, saying it only provides diplomatic

CHENNAI( Reuters)-Heavy rains that have killed at least 25 people in southern India and Sri Lanka are likely to ease in the next few days, weather officials said on Thursday.A bulletin of the Indian Meteorological Department forecast light to moderate rainfall in most affected areas, with occasional flooding of roads and low-lying areas in some places.... " The worst is over and occasional rains will happen," said Pradeep John, an amateur forecaster who is widely followed in Tamil Nadu, India's

As the Centre announced tax refund rates for the Remission of Duties and Taxes on Export Products( RoDTEP) scheme on Tuesday, it brought relief to some exporters.... However, it has irked others as some sectors do not come under the ambit of the scheme. According to the RoDTEP guidelines released by the government, sectors such as steel, organic and inorganic chemicals as well as pharmaceuticals have not been included in the scheme.... Other ineligible categories include exports by advance aut

BENGALURU( Reuters)-The chief minister of India's Karnataka, the only state ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in the country's prosperous south, resigned on Monday in the latest political shake-up in the Hindu nationalist group.B.S. Yediyurappa, a four-time chief minister of the state, home to India's technology capital of Bengaluru, had helped the Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP) form its first government in India's southern region in 2008. The party has failed to make inroads in other