| India orders probe as S.Asia floods, disease strike (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:47 AM CDT  Reuters - Authorities battling devastating floods in Bihar ordered a probe on Wednesday to determine whether negligence contributed to the disaster, while more people drowned and diseases spread across South Asia.
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| Scientists send first beam round particle-smasher (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 04:04 AM CDT  Reuters - Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday, aiming to re-enact the conditions of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.
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| India says can resolve trade issues with EU - paper (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:52 AM CDT  Reuters - India can resolve its differences with the European Union on trade policy, but faces a bigger dispute with the United States over farm subsidies, Trade Minister Kamal Nath told a German newspaper.
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| FACTBOX - What is the Big Bang? (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 03:19 AM CDT  Reuters - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, on Wednesday began an experiment to recreate conditions surrounding the Big Bang, which scientists believe gave birth to the universe.
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| RIM launches first flip-phone version of BlackBerry (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 11:34 PM CDT  Reuters - Research In Motion Ltd is launching a flip version of its popular BlackBerry Pearl smartphone, a move that reasserts its push into the retail consumer market.
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| Rice presses Congress on India nuclear deal (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:50 PM CDT  Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday launched an all-out effort to persuade the U.S. Congress to approve an agreement to end a three-decade ban on nuclear trade with India this year.
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| Fresh protest looms over Nano car factory (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 12:18 AM CDT  Reuters - Farmers threatened on Tuesday to resume protests that have blocked construction of a factory to build Tata Motors' super-cheap Nano car unless talks to resolve a dispute over land produce results soon.
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| Adiga favourite to win Booker - but not Rushdie (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 11:27 AM CDT Reuters - Tales from rural India, secretive Ireland and strike-riven northern England are all vying for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, one of the world's most prestigious literary awards. |
| Twenty-five wounded in Kashmir violence (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 08:50 AM CDT  Reuters - More than two dozen people, including 10 policemen, were injured in Kashmir on Tuesday when police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators in fresh protests against Indian rule, police and witnesses said.
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| Scientists start up giant particle-smashing machine (Reuters) Posted: 10 Sep 2008 02:58 AM CDT  Reuters - Scientists at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) started up a huge particle-smashing machine on Wednesday, aiming to re-enact the conditions of the "Big Bang" that created the universe.
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| China says India border solution an "arduous" task (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 08:31 AM CDT  Reuters - China said on Tuesday negotiating a settlement of its border disputes with India was an "arduous and complex" task, but added it was willing to work for a wider regional cooperation to achieve peace in South Asia.
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| Mysteries of universe to be probed in giant project (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 11:31 PM CDT  Reuters - International physicists at a vast underground complex near Geneva launch a 20-year project on Wednesday to re-enact the "Big Bang" to try to explain the origins of the universe and how it came to harbour life.
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| Malaria campaigners hopeful on drugs pricing deal (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:10 PM CDT Reuters - Anti-malaria campaigners are confident that a deal can be reached with pharmaceuticals groups to cut the cost of new drugs needed to fight a disease estimated to kill more than 1 million people a year. |
| 'The Last Lear' to open in Maharashtra despite boycott threat producers (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 01:04 PM CDT  Reuters - The producers of a new Amitabh Bachchan-starrer said on Tuesday the film would open in cinemas in Maharashtra this week despite a local political party's threat to boycott films by the actor and his family.
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| New RBI head sees signs of inflation slowdown (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 10:09 PM CDT  Reuters - India's inflation is showing signs of moderating but it is too early to conclude whether this is a trend, the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Tuesday, signalling he would wait and see before taking any fresh steps.
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| Mysteries of universe at focus of giant project (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 07:54 AM CDT  Reuters - Scientists at a vast underground Swiss laboratory will launch an experiment on Wednesday to re-enact the "Big Bang" on a small scale to explain the origins of the universe and how it came to harbour life.
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| McLaren appeal Hamilton's Belgian GP penalty (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 10:34 AM CDT  Reuters - The McLaren Formula One team said on Tuesday they had lodged an appeal against a stewards' decision to strip their world championship leader Lewis Hamilton of victory in Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.
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| Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga in Booker Prize shortlist (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2008 10:16 AM CDT  Reuters - Indian writers Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga made it to the shortlist for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Tuesday, but 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie didn't make the cut.
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