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India's government has recently targeted high-profile journalists with Pegasus spyware, Amnesty International and The Washington Post said in a joint investigation published Thursday.

After President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, Western countries hit Russia with a slew of sanctions including a European Union embargo on its seaborne oil deliveries.

Indian nationals mostly from the western Gujarat state and working in the UAE formed the majority of those onboard the flight. They were flying to Nicaragua to migrate to the U.S. or Canada, reports said.

Nearly 100 opposition lawmakers have been temporarily barred from India's parliament for demanding a debate into last week's protest when a smoke canister was released in the legislature.

Experts say that India has the potential to extend its successful track record in the automobile industry to electric vehicles as well.

Founder and CEO Horace Luke said the company was open to making a multi-billion dollar investment to develop the battery swapping infrastructure across by 2024 in India.

The Quad summit, proposed to be held around the same time, is also likely to be postponed, reports say.

Chairman of India's space agency S Somanath said a crew of two to three astronauts will be part of India's maiden manned space mission.

New Delhi will host the summit this year and see the participation of 29 members, including the U.S., the UK, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and the EU.

The New York-headquartered glass maker will work with its Indian partner Optiemus Infracom to set up the facility, expected to be built on a 25-acre plot. It will reportedly employ around 300 people.

The five-judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court said the special status was a "temporary provision" and ordered that the region should be restored as a state "at the earliest."

Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos believes getting 100 million subscribers is achievable in India, one of its fastest-growing markets.

Tata Group is looking to construct the factory in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The Indian conglomerate presently oversees an iPhone manufacturing unit that it took over from Taiwanese supplier Wistron in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

Currently, only 9% of the Indian semiconductor component consumption is met locally, according to global technology market research firm Counterpoint Research.

India's Power and Renewable Energy Minister R.K. Singh said the country's installed power generation capacity from non-fossil sources is 186.46 gigawatt (GW).

Argentina's President-elect is expected to withdraw Argentina from a planned expansion of the non-western economic alliance.

Rains lashed southern India's city of Chennai on Monday ahead of the landfall of a powerful cyclone, with a crocodile spotted swimming the streets and cars floating away.

The workers were trapped by the blaze that broke out Wednesday night due to a blast in the chemical factory, located in Surat city. The bodies of the deceased workers were recovered Thursday morning.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced murder-for-hire charges against 52-year-old Indian national Nikhil Gupta for his alleged involvement in an assassination plot that was thwarted by U.S. officials.

The world's largest retailer has increased the share of U.S. imports from India in recent years, while its Chinese imports have significantly dipped.

US prosecutors unveiled charges on Wednesday against an Indian national they say planned to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil under the direction of an Indian official.