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☆ Rescuers Race to Free 40 Workers Trapped in Indian Mountain Tunnel
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Shan Li | Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

People stood at the entrance of an under-construction tunnel that collapsed in Uttarakhand in India, on Friday. Photo: Associated PressNEW DELHI—High in the mountains of Uttarakhand, Indian rescuers are racing against time to free 40 construction workers trapped in a collapsed highway tunnel, struggling with landslides and equipment failures as the effort moves into its sixth day. The work team has been stuck since Sunday, when part of the tunnel crumbled during a landslide in the northern state, a region popular with tourists and pilgrims.

Organizations: Press, DELHI Locations: Uttarakhand, India

☆ India’s Capital Hunkers Down for Annual Airpocalypse
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In some cities, children look forward to snow days. In New Delhi, as temperatures cool around November trapping filthy air over the Indian capital, parents say their children eagerly await ‘pollution holidays.’The city’s residents are used to a blanket of smog that blots out the sky and heralds the arrival of the Hindu festival of Diwali. Delhi recorded worse average air-quality readings in November 2019 than it has seen this month. But residents and visitors to the city are reeling more than usual this year after experiencing less intense air pollution during the pandemic era.

Locations: New Delhi, Delhi

☆ Himalayan Lake Bursts in India, Leaving 14 Dead, Dozens Missing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-05 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | Krishna Pokharel | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India to Reserve One-Third of Lower Parliament for Women
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India on Alert to Contain Outbreak of Deadly Nipah Virus
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-15 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India Spends Big on What It Needs Most to Catch Up to China
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Jason Douglas | Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

India Spends Big on What It Needs Most to Catch Up to China The country is building fast in an effort to address gaps in its infrastructure that have long held back its economyIndia had about 90,000 miles of national highways at the close of the fiscal year in March, almost double the more than 49,000 miles it had a decade earlier. Atul Loke For The Wall Street Journal

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The majority of women who do work for BluSmart are single mothers like Deepa Shankar whose financial needs trump their family’s objections. The 25-year-old in New Delhi said she became a driver after her husband abandoned her and their baby son. Her mother, brother and neighbors all tried to shame her into quitting. They told her she was staining the family’s good name.

Persons: Deepa Shankar Locations: New Delhi

☆ India Counts Down to Landing at Moon’s South Pole
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ ‘India Is on the Moon’: Chandrayaan-3 Spacecraft Lands on Lunar South Pole
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India Imposes Export Tax on Onions to Curb Food Inflation as Elections Near
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India Races Russia to Be First to Land on Moon’s South Pole
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Hopes Rise for India to Become First to Land on Moon’s South Pole
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Three-Way Train Crash in India Kills More Than 250: ‘I Haven’t Seen Anything So Horrific’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Indian Train Crash Kills More Than 200 People
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Shan Li | Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India’s GDP Grows 6.1% Amid Strong Domestic Demand
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ India’s Economy Slows Amid Sluggish Consumer Demand, High Inflation
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Some restaurant owners in India say fewer diners are coming through their doors after an initial bump last year. NEW DELHI—India’s economy grew 4.4% in the October-to-December quarter from a year earlier, weighed down by sluggish consumer demand and high inflation. The gross domestic product figure released Tuesday for the fiscal third quarter shows a slowing of growth compared with the preceding two quarters. The economy climbed 6.3% in the period from July to September and 13.2% in the April-to-June quarter.

☆ Indian Authorities Search BBC Offices Weeks After Contentious Modi Documentary
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Philip Wen | Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NEW DELHI—Indian income-tax officials on Tuesday searched offices of the BBC weeks after the British broadcaster aired a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi that New Delhi described as propaganda. The British Broadcasting Corp. said on its official Twitter account that it was fully cooperating with the authorities at its offices in New Delhi and Mumbai. “We hope to have this situation resolved as soon as possible,” it said.

KANPUR, India—Since losing his wife during a wave of the coronavirus last year, Ram Bilas Kovind said, he has been turned away repeatedly by authorities in the northern Indian city of Kanpur as he has unsuccessfully sought compensation available to India’s Covid-19 victims. “They ask us for proof. How can we prove when she wasn’t tested, when she wasn’t hospitalized? Almost everyone in the area was sick at the same time,” said the 69-year-old. “We have nothing.”

☆ India Economic Growth Slows to 6.3% as Inflation, Global Headwinds Weigh
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Vibhuti Agarwal | Shan Li | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

India’s gross domestic product grew 6.3% from July to September as global pressures on prices and supply chains, along with economic downturns in the U.S. and European Union, slowed its economic recovery. In April to June, the economy grew 13.5% from a year earlier, benefiting from the easing of covid restrictions, and from a comparison to a quarter in which India’s economy was hit hard by a fierce wave of the illness.

☆ India Successfully Test Launches Its First Privately Developed Rocket
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Shan Li | Vibhuti Agarwal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Vikram-S rocket blasted off at around 11:30 a.m. local time from the Sriharikota spaceport, reaching an altitude of 55.6 miles. India tested its first privately developed rocket on Friday with a successful suborbital launch that marks a step forward in the country’s push to develop a commercial space industry. The Vikram-S rocket, which was developed by the startup Skyroot Aerospace, blasted off at around 11:30 a.m. local time from the Sriharikota spaceport off the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It reached an altitude of 89.5 kilometers (55.6 miles), with all of the rocket’s systems working as planned, the company said.

CommoditiesIndia banned exports of broken rice and levied a tax on other key varieties in a move that would add to global inflationary pressure and exacerbate food supply pains caused by the war in Ukraine.

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