India

NEW DELHI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - India's top court suspended opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi's defamation conviction on Friday, allowing him to return to parliament and contest national elections due next year.

Gandhi was convicted in March in a case brought by a lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the western state of Gujarat over comments he made in 2019 deemed insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others with the same name, including the lawmaker.

NEW DELHI, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A mid-air scare forced an IndiGo airlines flight to make an emergency landing Friday at the airport in Patna, the capital city of the eastern Indian state of Bihar, officials said.

All the passengers are said to be safe.

The Delhi-bound flight 6E 2433 carrying 181 passengers and eight crew made the landing shortly after taking off from the Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport, Patna, after one of its engines became inoperative.

Officials said the flight returned to its origin barely three minutes after its departure.

NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (Reuters) - China's loss in India could be Elon Musk's gain.

Tesla (TSLA.O) has had a red-carpet welcome from India for its proposal to invest in the country, while its largest rival in electric vehicles, China's BYD (002594.SZ), has been stopped cold by increased scrutiny from New Delhi.

The result could be an opening for Tesla to negotiate terms for an entry to the world's third-largest auto market without the competitive threat from BYD that it faces in other emerging markets, like Thailand.

NEW DELHI, Aug 3 (Reuters) - India on Thursday said it will impose a licensing requirement for imports of laptops, tablets and personal computers with immediate effect, a move that could hit hard the likes of Apple, Dell and Samsung and force them to boost local manufacturing.

Current regulations in India allow companies to import laptops freely, but the new rule mandates a special licence for these products similar to restrictions India imposed in 2020 for inbound TV shipments.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will participate in a weekend meeting that Saudi Arabia is hosting to find a way to start negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia invited India to the two-day meeting in Jeddah and its “participation is in consonance with our long-standing position that dialogue and diplomacy is the way forward,” Arindam Bagchi, the spokesman for India’s External Affairs Ministry, told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday.

NEW DELHI, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Traffic was lighter than usual on Wednesday and some streets deserted in the Gurugram business hub south of the Indian capital New Delhi as authorities said the death toll from two days of Hindu-Muslim clashes in the region had mounted to seven.

The violence erupted during a religious procession by Hindus in the Muslim-dominated Nuh district on Monday, resulting in the death of four people, including two police personnel, and around 60 people were injured.

By Wednesday morning, two more civilians had succumbed to injuries, officials said.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court Wednesday began hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the constitutionality of the legislation passed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in 2019 that stripped disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, scrapped its separate constitution and removed inherited protections on land and jobs.

Palghar; 2 Aug 2023 (UMMN): A Hindutva terrorist shot dead a senior colleague and three Muslim passengers on board a train, while hailing PM Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath.

The terrorist was identified as Chetan Singh, 33, from Hathras in Uttar Pradesh state, a constable of the Railway Protection Force (RPF).

NEW DELHI, Aug 1 (NNN-PTI) – At least 17 workers were killed and three others injured today, after a crane collapsed at a road construction site, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, officials said.

The incident occurred near Shahapur in Thane district, about 71 km north-east of Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra. National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams were rushed to the spot.

“Our search and rescue operation is still underway,” said Sarang Kurve, a senior official of NDRF.

NEW DELHI, Jul 31 (NNN-PTI) – At least four persons were killed, when a police officer with the Railway Protection Force (RPF), allegedly opened indiscriminate fire, inside a moving train, in the south-western state of Maharashtra, today, official sources said.

The shootout took place inside the “Jaipur Express” train (Train Number 12956), which was moving from the country’s western city of Jaipur towards the financial capital, Mumbai, after it had crossed the Palghar railway station, nearly 60 miles from Mumbai.