2008年9月19日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

Atomic trade high on PM's U.S., France tour (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 04:12 AM CDT

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh listens to a question during his annual news conference in New Delhi in this February 1, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore/FilesReuters - Armed with a permit for global nuclear trade, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh leaves next week for the United States and France hoping to seal atomic energy deals and discuss cooperation in defence and counter-terrorism.


Police kill two militants in Delhi (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 05:01 AM CDT

Reuters - Police shot dead two suspected militants in the nation's capital on Friday during a raid targeting suspects in last week's bombings in New Delhi that killed 23 people.

Reformed Harbhajan hopes to leave Australia in a spin (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 12:45 AM CDT

India's Harbhajan Singh tosses a cricket ball during training at the Adelaide Oval in this January 23, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Will Burgess/FilesReuters - Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh wants the focus firmly on his bowling and not his behaviour when the home test series against Australia starts on Oct. 9.


Inflation seen coming under control - official (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 02:18 AM CDT

A vendor arranges vegetables at a wholesale market in Siliguri in this April 4, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - Inflation seems to be coming under control and upcoming harvests are expected to be good, the chief of the prime minister's economic advisory council said on Friday, which could help price pressures ease further.


Rains bring disease threat to Punjab cotton, rice crops (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 05:23 AM CDT

A labourer carries saplings at a paddy field in Majta village in Punjab in this July 2, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Ajay Verma/FilesReuters - Unseasonally heavy rains in northwestern India have damaged the cotton crop in some areas and exposed paddy to plant diseases, farmers and scientists said.


Slowing demand a key concern for Indian cos - report (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2008 01:18 AM CDT

A customer collects food packets at a shopping mall in Siliguri in this March 14, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - Indian corporates see slowing demand growth as the primary long-term concern, while inflation is only a short term worry, according to findings of a survey of 86 Indian firms by brokerage Credit Suisse.


Pakistan close to boosting atom bomb means - report (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:07 PM CDT

A Hatf-VI (Shaheen-II) missile with a range of 2,000 km takes off during a test flight from an undisclosed location in Pakistan in this April 21, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - Pakistan is close to completing a second plutonium-producing reactor, is well into building a third and these could increase its ability to make atomic bombs, a U.S. think-tank said on Thursday.


UEFA Cup relief for Milan and Ancelotti (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 06:18 PM CDT

AC Milan Andriy Shenvchenko (L) performs a bicycle kick next to Hannu Tihinen of FC Zurich during their UEFA Cup first round, first leg soccer match at San Siro stadium in Milan, September 18, 2008. REUTERS/Stefano RellandiniReuters - Seven-times European champions AC Milan eased some of the pressure on coach Carlo Ancelotti with a 3-1 UEFA Cup win at home to FC Zurich on Thursday.


Bomb-hit India plans special anti-terrorism centre (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:49 AM CDT

Television cameramen film the site of a bomb blast in New Delhi September 13, 2008. REUTERS/StringerReuters - India, reeling under a spate of bombings by Islamist militants, is building a new counter- terrorism centre, as part of a revamp of its policing and intelligence apparatus to prevent future attacks.


Inflation edges up in Sept, weak rupee a worry (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 11:41 AM CDT

Customers are seen purchasing brinjals at a wholesale vegetable market in Mumbai in this July 14, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - Inflation edged up in early September after easing for three straight weeks, and analysts said sustained price pressures and a weaker rupee would keep the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) monetary stance tight.


Pakistan's Zardari likely to meet Manmohan Singh (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 06:25 AM CDT

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, reads the Koran at the grave of his wife in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh near Larkana September 11, 2008. REUTERS/Nadeem SoomroReuters - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari is expected to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New York this month, a cabinet minister said on Thursday, for their first talks since Zardari became president.


Tata Tele launches BlackBerry services (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 09:22 AM CDT

Jim Balsillie, co-chief executive of Research In Motion (RIM), holds the new Blackberry Bold handset during its launch in Mumbai September 18, 2008. Tata Teleservices Ltd, India's sixth-largest mobile operator, on Thursday launched Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, it said in a statement. REUTERS/Punit ParanjpeReuters - Tata Teleservices Ltd, India's sixth-largest mobile operator, on Thursday launched Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, it said in a statement.


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