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Asia’s richest man, Gautam Adani, has seen his companies shed $68 billion in market value in the past week after short-selling firm Hindenburg Research accused him of “pulling the largest con in corporate history.”.

Could the shooting of a six-year-old girl spark change in India where organ donation is rare?

Germany's DAX lost 0.2% to 15,118.74 and the CAC 40 in Paris was down 0.3% at 7,076.89. Taiwan's benchmark was lifted 3.8% by gains in TSMC, the world's biggest maker of computer chips, which jumped 8%. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 0.2% to 27,433.40. Its flagship, Adani Enterprises, gained 2.3%, but shares in some other Adani listed companies fell between 5% to 20%. On Friday, the S&P 500 rose 0.2%.

The drive to defeat Vladimir Putin is taking on a dangerous and heedless momentum all its own, just like Iraq.

BANGKOK — (AP) — Shares were trading mixed in Asia on Monday after Wall Street benchmarks closed higher on Friday, capping a third week of gains out of the last four. In the first trading session after a weeklong break, the Shanghai Composite index gained 0.7% to 3,288.38. Its flagship, Adani Enterprises, gained 6.3% and the Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd. added 3.3%. It gave a forecast for earnings through 2023 that topped Wall Street's expectations and announced a planned increase to its dividend. It rose 11% following its stronger-than-expected profit report for the end of 2022 released earlier in the week.

Two fighter jets in India's Air Force crashed into each other Saturday, leaving one pilot dead and two others injured and landing in an open field.

BEIJING — (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday amid hopes Western economies can avoid a recession despite higher interest rates to cool inflation. “There’s increasing confidence the economy may not require a recession to tame the inflation beast,” said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management in a report. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong rose 1.9% to 22,464.77 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo shed 0.1% to 27,362.75. The Fed has said it expects to keep rates high at least through the end of the year to extinguish inflation. In energy markets, benchmark U.S. crude rose 25 cents to $80.40 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

BEIJING — (AP) — Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday amid hopes Western economies can avoid a recession despite higher interest rates to cool inflation. “There’s increasing confidence the economy may not require a recession to tame the inflation beast,” said Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management in a report. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong rose 1.9% to 22,460.54 while the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo shed 0.1% to 27,361.10. Traders expect the Fed to raise its benchmark lending rate by another 0.25 percentage points at its next update on Feb. 1. The Fed has said it expects to keep rates high at least through the end of the year to extinguish inflation.

Amazon is expanding its in-house logistics arm even as CEO Andy Jassy looks to cut costs elsewhere inside the company.

India's minister of commerce and industry said Apple is looking to make 25% of all iPhones in India, up from between 5%-7% currently.

Indian education technology start-up Byju's will not renew its jersey sponsorship deal with India's cricket team, the company's co-founder Divya Gokulnath, told CNBC.

Shah Rukh Khan returns in a James Bond-like spy-thriller Pathaan after a four-year hiatus.

Six people, including three children, were killed at a kite festival in India when their throats were cut by kite strings that had been coated in powdered glass, according to multiple media reports. According to reports in The Evening Standard and the Press Trust of India, two young girls and a 7-year-old boy died after kite strings became entangled around their necks, slitting their throats. Kite flyers put the powdered glass on the strings – called manja in India -- to cut the stings of their competitor’s kites, the BBC explained. The Delhi government in 2016 banned the use of sharpened manja to fly kites. Last Friday, police in Gujarat urged those taking part in the festival not to use the manja.

Paleontologists in India have found 92 dinosaur nesting sites and 256 egg fossils for six different types of titanosaurs dinosaurs.

Devanshi Sanghvi, 8, renounced worldly possessions and pleasures on Wednesday to become a nun under the Jain faith in India.

In short: immigration.

Professionals are displaying confidence, optimism and resilience post-pandemic despite recessionary fears, LinkedIn told CNBC Make It.

The stars of “RRR,” one of India’s most expensive and top-grossing films of all time, travelled to Los Angeles to promote the film as an unlikely underdog in Hollywood’s award race.

Hollywood’s awards season has found an unlikely underdog in “RRR.”.

Experts say player selection will be a key factor in leading India to victory in upcoming matches.

Years after leaving her Procter & Gamble job, Amrita Saigal has a $250,000 "Shark Tank" deal for her diaper startup Kudos with Mark Cuban and Gwyneth Paltrow.

By comparison, China's population is about 1.45 billion, but those under 25 make up only a quarter of the population. China's population is set to peak in the coming years and projected to decline. Population growth in China is flatlining, and its supply of cheap labor may follow suit. And much of India's population growth is centered in its poorer regions, especially in the north. By 2050, data shows that India is expected to provide more than a sixth of the world's population of working age (15 to 64 years old).

A preview of the fiction, biographies, memoirs, mysteries and more to watch for in the new year.

Shankar Mishra is accused of urinating on an elderly woman while inebriated on an Air India flight from New York to New Delhi.

The drop in temperature has caused disruptions to rail, air and road transport across Indian states.

Two videos from Dec. 2022 in India show rhinos charging after safari tourists in an effort to defend its territory, each time sending the tourists into a wild panic.

BENGALURU, India — (AP) — The government has approved $2.3 billion to support production, use and exports of green hydrogen, aiming to make India a global hub for the nascent industry. Green hydrogen is hydrogen that is produced through the electrolysis of water, powered by electricity generated from renewable sources of energy. Most commercially produced hydrogen is grey hydrogen, produced using fossil fuels, and blue hydrogen that is also made using fossil fuels but with the use of carbon capture systems to reduce emissions. In providing policy incentives for green hydrogen production, India is following the lead of many other countries such as China, the European Union and the United States. Energy analysts expect manufacturing costs for green hydrogen to fall significantly in the next few years and estimate the green hydrogen market will grow 20-fold to $80 billion by the year 2030.

Marking its biggest effort yet to make India a global hub for production, use and export of hydrogen, the Indian federal government approved $2.3 billion funding with an aim to grow various segments of the green hydrogen sector in India.

Any day now, the United Nations will declare India's population the largest in the world. The country's next generation is poised to be healthier, more literate — and more female — than ever before.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Joe Biden still wants former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who has been shadowed by a controversy over sexual harassment, to serve as his ambassador to India. Garcetti was originally nominated several months after Biden took office, but he never received a vote of the full Senate. Amid Garcetti's struggles to get confirmed, the White House publicly defended him as a well-qualified candidate and noted that his nomination cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously. “We see this as a very important nomination,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. “We're hopeful that the full Senate will confirm him promptly.”All told, the White House on Tuesday resubmitted 85 nominations out of roughly 175 that fell short in the last congressional session.

Pakistan and India say they have exchanged lists of their nuclear facilities as part of a 1988 agreement that bans them from attacking each other’s installations

Deepti Kapoor's explosive thriller tears through a story of corruption in modern-day India.

The latest allegation comes weeks after The Gambia blamed Indian syrups for child deaths.

They shine the spotlight on centuries-old homes to save them from being erased from collective memory.

The founders of sports tech start-up Dream Sports explain why workers who reach out to other employees during "unplug" time must pay a fine of about $1,200.

NEW DELHI — (AP) — India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19, the country’s health minister said Thursday, citing an increase in cases in neighboring China. India relaxed its mask-wearing rules earlier this year after coronavirus cases began dropping sharply. It has reported the most COVID-19 cases in the world since the pandemic began, but confirmed infections have fallen sharply in the past few months. According to health ministry data, India currently has about 3,400 active coronavirus cases. India, a country of nearly 1.4 billion people, has administered more than 2.2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses, but only 27% of the population has received a third booster dose.

India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19 after an increase in cases in neighboring China.

BENGALURU, India — (AP) — For renewable energy companies in India, it's a good time to be in business. The company has over 100 clean energy projects across India and has become the world’s tenth largest solar and wind energy company in just over a decade. Bond added that the price of clean energy was getting closer to that of fossil fuels and in some cases it was cheaper. The invasion “had the effect of making it apparent that clean energy is the solution," said Lauri Myllyvirta, a lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. But spurred by momentum from previous years the clean energy sector worldwide nevertheless took off this year.

The past year saw major governments around the world green lighting ambitious renewable energy policies

Majd Ramlawi was serving coffee in Jerusalem’s Old City when a chilling text message appeared on his phone. Ramlawi, then 19, was among hundreds of people whom civil rights attorneys estimate got the text last year at the height of one of the most turbulent recent periods in the Holy Land. What he didn’t know was that the feared internal security agency, the Shin Bet, was using mass surveillance technology mobilized for coronavirus contact tracing against Israeli residents and citizens for purposes entirely unrelated to COVID-19.

Kissinger's realpolitik produced destructive outcomes, fomenting coups, enabling murderous dictators, killing civilians, alienating allies.

Adar Poonawalla became the CEO of the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, when he was 30 years old.

Rishi Rajpopat, from India, decodes a rule taught by Panini, a master of the ancient language.

Nigerians have until the end of January to exchange their highest-value banknotes for freshly-issued bills. The aim is to bring an estimated 2.7 trillion naira ($6 billion) that circulates in informal channels into the regular banking system. But cash is the lifeblood of Africa’s biggest economy and there’s concern that the switchover could trigger the kind of chaos that broke out when India tried something similar in 2016.

The Biden administration's China chip curbs are prompting chipmakers to relocate production chains to neighboring countries, experts say.

It won’t be enough for central banks to simply issue electronic versions of fiat money. Users must view the new currencies as close substitutes for paper bills.

The #FifaWorldCup hashtag is bringing in billions of views as football fever hits social media.

Bangladesh denies cracking down on freedom of expression as thousands gather for anti-government protests.

Sri Lanka schools were forced to close due to poor air quality in the country. The poor air quality was caused by weather conditions and pollution.

Schools across Sri Lanka are closed as health and environment officials say the air quality in most parts of the island nation is unhealthy partly due to extreme weather conditions

Pakistan has slammed the U.S. State Department’s listing last week of the South Asian country as one of “particular concern” regarding religious freedoms

After years of delay, the U.N. body overseeing economic development and social issues has voted to give nine human rights and minority groups the right to raise concerns and participate in its discussions

Online registration of patients resumed Tuesday after the hospital was able to access its server and recover lost data. The attack was followed by a series of failed attempts to hack India's top medical research organization, the Indian Council of Medical Research. “Digitizing an entire health care system without really safeguarding it can pretty much kill an entire hospital. On Nov. 30, there were repeated but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to breach the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group.

Online registration of patients resumed Tuesday after the hospital was able to access its server and recover lost data. The attack was followed by a series of failed attempts to hack India's top medical research organization, the Indian Council of Medical Research. “Digitizing an entire health care system without really safeguarding it can pretty much kill an entire hospital. On Nov. 30, there were repeated but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to breach the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. ___The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group.

The leading hospital in India’s capital is limping back to normalcy after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks.

One would have to go back hundreds of years to find a monarch who reigned longer than Queen Elizabeth II.

French writer Dominique Lapierre has died at age 91.

Argentina is finding a legion of passionate superfans from India, Bangladesh and other Asian countries at the World Cup in Qatar.

After two weeks of U.N. climate talks, negotiators agreed to one big decision, to create a fund to help developing countries suffering the impacts of climate change.

The United Nations says the world's population is reaching the 8 billion mark on Tuesday.

The craft beer revolution has taken a major bite out of macrobrew's traditional dominance of the national palette, and India pale ale is perhaps the most popular category to find traction in its wake.

More than 400 people died in October in a series of crowd-related disasters in Asia.

India’s prime minister has visited the site in western India where a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge collapsed into a river.

Police in western India have arrested nine people as they investigate the collapse of a newly repaired 143-year-old suspension bridge.

Head coach Li Xiaopeng apologized to angry fans and promised that “Chinese soccer will definitely revive in the future" after China’s qualification campaign for the men’s World Cup ended in February with a humiliating loss to Vietnam.

The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax.

On the eve of the opening of a key Chinese Communist Party congress, party leader, head of state and commander of the armed forces Xi Jinping has given no indication of stepping away from power or anointing a successor.

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from The 1975 and Red Hot Chili Peppers, some sort of conclusion to the Michael Myers saga with the arrival of the horror thriller “Halloween Ends” and a new TV spin-off from the “Supernatural” franchise.”.

A farm tractor pulling a wagon loaded with people overturned and fell into a pond in northern India, killing 26 people, most of them women and children.

Most Asian countries are prioritizing keeping the country running, no matter the energy source.

A viral disease that is spread by insects like mosquitoes and ticks has killed at least 100,000 cows and buffaloes in India and sickened more than 2 million.

India’s Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of marital status, can obtain abortions up to 24 weeks into their pregnancies.

The Miss Universe Organization says New Orleans will be the site of its 71st contest, drawing nearly 90 women contestants from around the world in January.

South Africa is flying cheetahs to India and Mozambique as part of ambitious efforts to reintroduce the distinctive spotted cats in regions where their population has dwindled.

A new report says Russia sent significantly more oil and coal to India and China over the summer compared with the start of the year, while European countries that long relied on Russian energy have cut back sharply in response to the war in Ukraine.

A video shows an amusement park ride in India crashing to the ground with dozens of people on board.

Two high-rise apartment towers in India have been leveled to the ground in a controlled demolition after the country’s top court declared them illegal for violating building norms, officials said.

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in several parts of India to protest a recent government decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for gang raping a Muslim woman during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots.

Ani Di Franco has some life thoughts to share — for kids.

At least 40 people have died and others are missing in flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in northern India over the past three days.

A high-ranking representative from the Biden administration is set next week to make his first official trip to India since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences.

A Chinese navy vessel has arrived at a Beijing-built port in southern Sri Lanka after its port call was earlier delayed due to apparent security concerns raised by India.

Landfills are releasing large amounts of planet-warming methane gas into the atmosphere from the decomposition of waste and are a significant contributor to such emissions in urban areas, a study suggests.

The head of the U.S. government aid agency has called on China to help Sri Lanka and other nations that had borrowed heavily from Beijing with debt restructuring, not just with lines of credit and emergency loans.

Bob Rafelson, a co-creator of “The Monkees” who became an influential figure in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, has died.

The United Nations estimates that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year.

The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the United States.

A burgeoning form of resistance music laced with religious metaphors is fast taking wing in Kashmir, a disputed region divided between rivals India and Pakistan.

Fresh rain and falling boulders are hampering rescuers who have pulled out 26 bodies from the debris of a mudslide that wiped out a railroad construction site in India’s northeast.

About 1,200 Zoroastrians from 16 countries will be assessing their faith’s prospects during the four-day World Zoroastrian Congress that is opening in New York City.

India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as a part of a federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people.

The death toll from a mudslide in northeastern India has risen to 19, with over 50 people missing.

Pounding rain following weeks of heavy downpours has triggered a mudslide in northeast India that killed at least 14 people and left more than 30 others missing.

Authorities in India and Bangladesh are struggling to deliver food and drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from their homes in days of flooding that have submerged wide swaths of the countries.

Army troops have been called in to rescue thousands of people stranded by massive floods that have ravaged northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater and severing transport links.

The U.N. climate chief has urged countries to keep up hope and focus on tackling global warming despite the many obstacles now to international cooperation.

Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars are in Abu Dhabi this weekend for the International Indian Film Academy awards.

India’s economic growth, hit by pandemic curbs and price increases, slowed to 4.1% in the January-March quarter, according to figures released Tuesday by the government.

Indian police are investigating the killing of a popular Punjabi rapper, who blended hip-hop, rap and folk music, a day after he was fatally shot.