DUBAI / WAM India’s farm sector growth will likely be the highest in three years as better-than-normal rain helped farmers to boost output of crops, including rice, sugar cane and soybeans. Agriculture growth in the year that began in April will surpass the 4% level achieved in 2019-20, said Atul Chaturvedi, president of the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India. That ...

Bloomberg Storm Nivar over the Bay of Bengal was expected to turn into a “very severe cyclone” by Wednesday night and may cause widespread damage to crops, mud houses and electricity poles in some southern Indian states. The storm, which is likely to have a sustained wind speed of 120 to 130 kilometres (75-81 miles) per hour, will cross Tamil ...

Bloomberg JD Health International Inc is looking to raise as much as $3.5 billion in its Hong Kong initial public offering in what would be Asia’s biggest health-care listing on record. The healthcare unit of China’s No. 2 e-commerce giant JD.com Inc is selling 381.9 million shares at HK$62.8 to HK$70.58 each, according to terms of the deal obtained by ...