By Sethuraman N R (Reuters) -Indian solar module manufacturer Solex Energy will invest $1.5 billion over the next five years to expand manufacturing as it targets exports to the United States, a top executive told Reuters on Wednesday.

The weather modification strategy is an attempt to trigger rainfall, which may temporarily clear the city’s toxic air.

Indian authorities have shut schools and evacuated tens of thousands of people as Cyclone Montha approaches the eastern coast.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella is set to travel to India in December, his second visit to the South Asian country this year where he plans to hold meetings with top government officials, two sources with direct knowledge said.

Direct flights between India and China have resumed as relations between the countries appear to be thawing. IndiGo flight 6E 1703 from Kolkata landed in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on Monday, carrying about 180 passengers.

They pledged to cooperate in ‘joint export of submarines to a mutually friendly country,’ but have not named the client country so far.

In the past few months, India has taken steps to effectively adapt to the barrage of trade policies being weaponized by U.S. President Donald Trump, who implemented tariffs to disrupt India’s pharmaceutical drugs in October,

India has a teeming population of able-bodied workers, tens of millions more than its employers can accommodate. Many other countries have the opposite problem: more jobs than workers.

Supporters of the city’s stray dogs say hostility toward them has increased since a court reversed an order that would have moved them all to shelters.

India's Goswami Infratech, a unit of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, is set to outsize its previous corporate bond sale with a shorter-duration issue of about $2.5 billion in early 2026, three bankers aware of the matter said on Wednesday.

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