To access the newsletter, click on the link: http://share.thomsonreuters.com/assets/newsletters/Indiamorning/MNC_IN_07142017.pdf If you would like to receive this newsletter via email, please register at: https://forms.thomsonreuters.com/india-morning/ FACTORS TO WATCH 9:00 am: Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor S.S. Mundra to speak at India Banking Reforms Conclave in Mumbai.
10:00 am: Farm Minister Radha Mohan Singh and NITI Aayog Member Ramesh Chand at National Summit on agriculture marketing solutions in New Delhi.
10:30 am: Hero Motocorp annual shareholders meeting in New Delhi.
12:00 pm: Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari to meet committee set up to study redevelopment of port hospitals on PPP basis in New Delhi.
12:00 pm: Government to release June wholesale inflation data in New Delhi.
2:50 pm: Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu and Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha to launch passenger and freight business initiatives in New Delhi.
5:00 pm: Reserve Bank of India to release weekly foreign exchange data in Mumbai.
5:30 pm: Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha at IPTV Society anniversary event in New Delhi.
LIVECHAT - QUIZ EAST The first of our Friday quizzes focuses on Asia and the week's top news. Tests your wits and googling speed. To join the conversation at 11:00 am IST, click on the link: https://forms.thomsonreuters.com/communities/ INDIA TOP NEWS • Tata Consultancy upbeat on client spending after Q1 profit dip Top Indian software services exporter Tata Consultancy Services said on Thursday it was optimistic about client spending on technology even as a cautious global environment and a stronger rupee dented first-quarter profit.
• Floods in India's northeast kill 40; endanger rare one-horned rhinos Floods in northeast India that have killed at least 40 people and displaced nearly 1.5 million have also inundated a national park that is home to the world's largest concentration of one-horned rhinoceros.
• Jaguar Land Rover to produce first car entirely outside of Britain Britain's biggest carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said on Thursday it is to build its new E-PACE compact sport utility vehicle in Austria and China, the first of its cars only to be manufactured outside of its home market.
GLOBAL TOP NEWS • Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo dies in custody, struck by liver cancer Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, a prominent dissident since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, died on Thursday after being denied permission to leave the country for treatment for late-stage liver cancer.
• New U.S. Senate Republicans healthcare bill already in trouble Senate Republican leaders released on Thursday a revised plan to dismantle the Obamacare law, but it drew criticism from senators on both sides of the political divide within the Republican party, indicating a treacherous path for the bill.