The Reserve Bank of India sold U.S. dollars through state-run banks before the spot market opened on Friday, traders said, repeating its midweek pre-market intervention and underscoring its intent to support the rupee.

At least 20 people were killed in a bus fire on a highway in western India, police say, adding that a jammed door kept many passengers from escaping.

Ever since US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions in 2018, “Iran has been playing a game of cat and mouse with its oil exports, trying to keep their shipments literally under the radar,” says Ali Vaez, lead Iran expert with the International Crisis Group.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday issued a health advisory warning against the use and distribution of three cough syrups believed to be responsible for the deaths of several children in India over the last month.

Viktor Hovland returned at DP World India, addressed Ryder Cup rule that benched Harris English and sparked global debate.

India's goods exports to the US, its largest foreign market, dropped sharply by 20% in September and nearly 40% in the last four months, as Trump's steep tariffs took effect, data shows.

India has refused drugmakers' requests to extend a year-end deadline for them to upgrade their manufacturing facilities to international standards, four sources said, amid public anger over the recent deaths of at least 24 children who consumed locally-produced cough syrup.