2008年9月26日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

Indian website plays cupid for HIV/AIDS patients (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:09 AM CDT

A screengrab of the website www.positivesaathi.com. REUTERS/positivesaathi.comReuters - Widowed at 30, HIV- positive Chhaya Tope had resigned herself to a life of loneliness, but a website for Indians afflicted with AIDS has given her another chance at love.


Q+A - Why are Christians under attack in India? (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 03:00 AM CDT

Christians set up tent shelters at Raikia village, in Orissa August 31, 2008. REUTERS/Parth SanyalReuters - The government has deployed hundreds more federal police to Orissa after one person was killed and several injured in the latest clashes between Hindus and Christians triggered by religious conversions.


Govt deploys more police after Orissa religious clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 12:58 AM CDT

Reuters - The government deployed hundreds more central police to Orissa on Friday after one person was killed and several injured in fresh clashes between Hindus and Christians triggered by religious conversions.

U.S.-India nuclear deal gets boost in Congress (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 09:55 PM CDT

Indian and U.S. national flags flutter in front of the Presidential Palace in New Delhi in this February 28, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - The odds of the U.S.-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement being approved by the U.S. Congress improved on Thursday when a key lawmaker embraced a bill to end the three-decade ban on nuclear trade with India.


West Bengal loses hope on Tata Nano project - report (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 11:51 PM CDT

A farmer listens to a speech by the Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee during a protest in front of the main entrance of the Tata small car plant in Singur, 50 km north of Kolkata, September 16, 2008. REUTERS/Jayanta ShawReuters - West Bengal, where Tata Motors planned to build the ultra-cheap Nano car, has lost almost all hope of retaining the project, the Indian Express newspaper said on Friday, citing the state's chief minister.


U.S. bailout in chaos, government seizes WaMu (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Sep 2008 01:07 AM CDT

Congressional leaders meet to discuss the economic bailout plan in the Capitol in Washington September 25, 2008. (L-R) Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA), Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY). REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - Talks on a $700 billion rescue for the U.S. financial system fell into chaos on Thursday amid accusations Republican presidential candidate John McCain scuppered the deal, and U.S. authorities closed Washington Mutual and sold its assets in America's biggest ever bank failure.


Winning in India the biggest challenge, says Watson (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:51 AM CDT

Australia's Shane Watson reacts while bowling at a team training session in La Sagesse in Grenada in this April 18, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Tim WimborneReuters - Winning in India is the biggest challenge for any Australian cricketer and the four-test series next month will inspire the young team to rise up to it, all-rounder Shane Watson said on Thursday.


Global carbon emissions rising rapidly - study (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 07:01 AM CDT

Smoke billows from a power station during sunset in New Delhi in this February 16, 2005 file photo. REUTERS/Kamal KishoreReuters - Global carbon emissions rose rapidly in 2007, an annual study says, with developing nations such as China and India now producing more than half of mankind's output of carbon dioxide, the main gas blamed for global warming.


Euro finals to feature 24 teams instead of 16 (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 01:23 PM CDT

UEFA's member Franz Beckenbauer of Germany (R) speaks with  Giangiorgio Spiess of Switzerland (L) and Friedrich Stickler of Austria during their UEFA Executive committee meeting in Bordeaux, southwestern France, September 25, 2008. REUTERS/Regis DuvignauReuters - European championship finals will feature 24 teams instead of 16 from 2016, senior UEFA committee member Franz Beckenbauer said on Thursday.


ICC to meet ICL representatives after Bangladesh crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 09:46 AM CDT

International Cricket Council (ICC) president David Morgan speaks during the ICC annual conference in Dubai in this July 3, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Jumana El HelouehReuters - Cricket's governing body has agreed to meet representatives of the unofficial Indian Cricket League (ICL) which triggered a crisis in Bangladesh this month by scooping up 13 of the country's leading players.


Oldest rocks on Earth found in northern Canada (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 01:22 PM CDT

Reuters - A pinkish tract of bedrock on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, formed 4.28 billion years ago, not long after the planet was formed, scientists said on Thursday.

Inflation holds steady, price risks remain (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 08:36 AM CDT

A vendor arranges vegetables at a wholesale market in Siliguri in this April 4, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - Indian inflation held steady above 12 percent in mid-September, and economists said volatile crude oil prices and the chance of a spike in some food costs would force the central bank to keep policy tight.


Twenty20 Champions League to be staged in India (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 12:15 PM CDT

Reuters - The inaugural Twenty20 Champions League, jointly organised by the Australian, Indian and South African boards, will be played at three venues in India from Dec. 3 to 10, organisers said on Thursday.

Bangladesh's "Battling Begums" rule the roost again (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Sep 2008 06:32 AM CDT

Former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chief Begum Khaleda Zia attends a meeting with the leaders of the Islamic Oikko Jot, a radical Islamic party, in Dhaka in this September 22, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Andrew BirajReuters - Bangladesh's "Battling Begums", behind bars and suspected to be heading towards the end of their careers just a few months ago, are back with a vengeance at the helm of the country's politics as December elections approach.


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