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In the Gandhi political bastion, India’s rural poor eye Modi’s promise

August 24, 2021 at 5:45 p.m.

SHIVGARH, India (Reuters) - If Sonia Gandhi and her Congress party need evidence that their policies of subsidies and safety nets for India's poor may no longer be enough to...

India scrambling to reduce oil bill inflated by sinking rupee

August 24, 2021 at 2:58 p.m.

NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India's top oil official is grasping at desperate measures to cut the country's oil costs by nearly $20 billion after the rupee's slide to record lows...

Insight: The poison pill in India’s search for cheap food

August 24, 2021 at 1:40 p.m.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children...

India’s cheap food plans to prove costly for government

August 24, 2021 at 9:20 a.m.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India may soon pass a new law to give millions more people cheap food, fulfilling an election promise of the ruling Congress party that could cost...

Going underground: India needs to dig deep to keep lights on

December 24, 2018 at 10:24 p.m.

DHANBAD, India (Reuters) - The slick mechanized operations at the Piparwar open-cast mine in eastern India, an ugly gash in the landscape bigger than New York's Central Park, could lead...

Going underground: India needs to dig deep to keep lights on

May 13, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

DHANBAD, India (Reuters) - The slick mechanized operations at the Piparwar open-cast mine in eastern India, an ugly gash in the landscape bigger than New York's Central Park, could lead...

Off-grid power shines in India solar village

August 23, 2021 at 11:40 a.m.

MEERWADA, India (Reuters) - Life in the remote Indian village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks...

Off-grid power shines in India solar village

December 24, 2018 at 11:17 a.m.

MEERWADA, India (Reuters) - Life in the remote Indian village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks...

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