Latest India Headlines
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Nepal Flood Toll Hits 101, Fears of Disease Rise
Aug 19 2014 // Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people. The swirling floodwaters have even...
AIG’s 13-Year Wait Gets Longer as Modi Rebuffed: Corporate India
Aug 14 2014 // American International Group Inc. has waited 13 years in India to raise its stake in a local venture from a maximum allowed 26 percent. That wait is about to get longer. Opposition lawmakers, during the current session of...
India Landslide May Leave No Survivors as Death Toll Rises to 61
Aug 1 2014 // The death toll from a landslide triggered by torrential rains this week in India’s western Maharashtra state rose to 61 with 110 missing people feared dead, a government official said. Among the dead were 10...
State Bank of India Mulls Share Sales in Insurance, Asset-Management Units
Jul 28 2014 // State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, is considering share sales in its insurance and asset-management units to meet tighter capital requirements. “We are in talks with our joint-venture partners...
El Nino Seen Weak or Delayed for Several Months by Forecasters
Jul 25 2014 // El Nino will probably develop as a weak event in late summer or early fall in the Northern Hemisphere, according to MDA Weather Services, while Commodity Weather Group LLC said it may be delayed for several months as the...
Insurance a Corporate Winner from India’s New Budget
Jul 11 2014 // Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new government on Thursday unveiled its first budget of structural reforms aimed at reviving growth, winning praise from investors despite a lack of clarity over how it would cap...
Lawsuit Over Hiker’s Death Moves to Wyoming from India
Jul 3 2014 // A federal lawsuit seeking damages against a Wyoming-based wilderness training academy over the death of a hiker on a 2011 trip to India will be heard in Wyoming. The lawsuit filed by Elizabeth Brenner of Minnetonka,...
Confusion as Search for Missing Malaysian Jetliner Spreads across SE Asia
Mar 12 2014 // The search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner expanded on Wednesday to cover a swathe of Southeast Asia, from the South China Sea to India’s territorial waters, with authorities no closer to explaining what...
India’s BJP Party May Accede to Increased Foreign Investments in Insurance
Mar 3 2014 // India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will consider raising the cap on foreign investment in the insurance sector from the current level of 26 percent if it comes to power after elections due by May, a...
El Nino Threatens to Return; May Hit Global Food Production
Feb 21 2014 // The El Nino weather pattern, which can trigger drought in some parts of the world while causing flooding in others, is increasingly likely to return this year, hitting production of key foods such as rice, wheat and...
AIA Testifies on Challenges to U.S. Insurers in India
Feb 18 2014 // Stephen Simchak, director of international affairs for the American Insurance Association (AIA), testified about trade and investment barriers that U.S. property-casualty insurers face in India at a public hearing before...
U.S. Submits 2015 Global Climate Wishlist to United Nations
Feb 13 2014 // The United States on Wednesday submitted to the United Nations its vision for a new international climate agreement that is “built to last,” outlining what it thinks should be the main elements of a climate...
Global Shipping Industry Sees an End to Five-Year Downturn
Feb 10 2014 // The shipping industry is poised to emerge from its longest downturn in three decades, buoyed by an end to years of overcapacity that have depressed freight rates since the end of a shipping boom in 2008. Dry cargo ships...
European Banks have $3.4 Trillion of Exposures to Emerging Markets
Feb 5 2014 // European banks have loaned in excess of $3 trillion to emerging markets, more than four times U.S. lenders and putting them at greater risk if financial market turmoil in countries such as Turkey, Brazil, India and South...
U.S. FAA Cuts India Aviation Safety Ranking as Standards Not Met
Jan 31 2014 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cut India’s safety ranking for the first time citing a failure to meet requirements, a move that could thwart local carriers’ expansion to the world’s biggest...
Insurance Leaders from India, Japan to Speak at Iowa Symposium
Jan 26 2014 // Keynote speakers at a global insurance symposium scheduled for May in Des Moines, Iowa, will include high ranking insurance officials from Japan and India. Gov. Terry Branstad says Japan’s Vice Commissioner Masamichi...
China, India, Brazil Join U.S. As Among Biggest Contributors to Global Warming
Jan 17 2014 // China, India and Brazil — three of the largest developing nations— joined the U.S. in a list of the biggest historical contributors to global warming, according to a study by researchers in Canada. Seven nations...
India Refiners Delay Iran Oil Imports on Failure to Get Reinsurance
Jan 8 2014 // Indian Oil Corp. and two other state- run refiners said they will defer resuming purchases of Iranian crude by at least three months, having failed to get reinsurance for shipments after Europe said it would relax a...
WTO Overcomes Last Minute Hitch to Reach First Global Trade Deal
Dec 9 2013 // The World Trade Organization reached its first ever trade reform deal on Saturday to the roar of approval from nearly 160 ministers who had gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali to decide on the make-or-break agreement...
Bali Talks to Decide WTO’s Fate
Dec 3 2013 // Crisis is the natural state of world trade negotiations. But this week will be different. Ministers meeting in the Indonesian resort of Bali from Tuesday until Friday will decide the fate of the World Trade Organization,...
