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At the end of the day’s action, SO Bharat had 55 medals, including 15 gold, 27 silver, 13 bronze spread across five different sports — athletics, cycling, powerlifting, roller skating and swimming.

We're not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the national government of a grown-up country like India to do the same thing?

As Joe Biden hosts Indian PM, rights advocates question US president’s decision to honour the Hindu nationalist leader.

Earlier, a senior White House official said that NASA and the ISRO were developing a strategic framework for human spaceflight cooperation this year.

Concerns about India's human rights record will be in the air, and millet and mushrooms will be on the plates at Thursday's White House state dinner for Prime Minister Narendra Modi

India’s prime minister ‘has a notorious and extensive record of human rights abuses’, said a statement from lawmakers

Prime Minister Modi drew strong applause from lawmakers when he spoke of close U.S.-Indian ties, but otherwise had a mixed reception.

July NY world sugar #11 (SBN23 ) on Thursday closed down -0.95 (-3.67%), and Aug London white sugar #5 (SWQ23 ) closed down -19.50 (-2.81%). Sugar prices Thursday closed sharply lower on warmer Brazilian weather forecasts that reduced the chances for damaging frost. Sugar prices saw continued carry-over pressure from...