It says it has offered to sell 18 light-combat 'Tejas' aircraft to Malaysia.

Cement production is a lucrative business in India's booming economy, with high demand especially from rural housing and infrastructure firms.

The 2019 privacy bill was designed to protect citizens and establish a so-called data protection authority, but it raised concerns among big tech giants that it could increase their compliance burden and data storage requirements.

For this year through July, India recorded 24 heatwave deaths, versus none for the whole of last year, and 25 in 2020, compared with a multi-year high of 505 deaths in 2019.

India is the world's biggest exporter of rice, a staple for Asia, and monsoon rains determine the size of the country's rice crop.

India's federal health ministry says the government has formed a task force of senior officials to monitor monkeypox cases in the country, where local media have reported at least five infections.

India introduced Aadhaar in 2009 to streamline welfare payments and reduce wastage in public spending.

Six years since its inception, the skills programme has trained 78,000 people around the country but less than a third of participants have found jobs in the solar industry.

Lawmakers from the Congress party staged a protest inside and outside parliament, holding posters and shouting slogans that accused Modi and his government of pursuing a political vendetta.

Prosecutors say more than 7,500 people in the US and Canada were defrauded out of more than US$10 million, and Vinoth Ponmaran directed co-conspirators to wire some fraud proceeds to accounts in India.

Analysts have said that higher taxes will put an additional burden on households that already face surging food and energy prices.

Flour exporters will need to seek prior government approval to maintain quality and stabilise domestic prices.