2009年4月23日星期四

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

India demands Sri Lanka end war on Tamil Tigers (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 12:39 PM PDT

In this photograph released by the Sri Lankan navy April 22, 2009, a Tamil man and woman carry children after fleeing an area called the 'No Fire Zone' controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in northern Sri Lanka.  REUTERS/Sri Lankan Government/HandoutReuters - India asked Sri Lanka on Thursday to stop its military campaign against the Tamil Tigers, while the issue forced a regional party to shut down a key electoral swing state in the middle of India's election.


"Idol" Anoop Desai ditches grad school for music (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 04:41 PM PDT

Performer Anoop Desai poses at the party for the 12 finalists of the television show Reuters - Out but far from down, "American Idol" reject Anoop Desai said on Thursday he was leaving behind his graduate school studies to pursue a career in the music industry.


INTERVIEW - RBI's Mohan says consumer prices to fall (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 11:28 AM PDT

Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) governor Duvvuri Subbarao (L) speaks as deputy governor Rakesh Mohan watches during a news conference in Mumbai December 6, 2008, file photo. REUTERS/Punit ParanjpeReuters - Consumer prices in India will likely fall in the months ahead, and inflation is no worry for the country's central bank, its deputy governor said on Thursday.


Reliance Q4 net down 1 pct but beats f'cast (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 04:35 AM PDT

India's Reliance Industries KG-D6's floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is seen off the Bay of Bengal in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/Reliance Industries/HandoutReuters - India's biggest energy group, Reliance Industries Ltd, quarterly net profit fell 1 percent as global economic crisis hurt demand, but still fared better than market expectations.


EXCLUSIVE - Rebel players heading to U.S. Twenty20 event (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 09:06 AM PDT

Reuters - Players from the rebel Indian Cricket League and some big names from the sport's past are to take part in an as yet unauthorised Twenty20 tournament in New York in October, the event organiser told Reuters on Thursday.

Nepal firm to expand mobile coverage to Everest (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 06:15 AM PDT

Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, with an altitude of 8,848 meters, is seen in this aerial view taken from a passenger aircraft flying over Nepal at a height of 9,144 meters, November 9, 2008, file photo. REUTERS/Desmond BoylanReuters - A Nepali telecom firm plans to expand its mobile phone services to the top of Mount Everest, benefitting climbers on the world's highest mountain, a company official said on Thursday.


Delhi Daredevils beat Chennai Super Kings by nine runs (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 09:08 AM PDT

Reuters - Delhi Daredevils beat Chennai Super Kings by nine runs in their Indian Premier League match at Kingsmead on Thursday.

IBM plans cloud computing services for 2009 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 10:19 AM PDT

Visitors watch a presentation about cloud computing at the IBM booth at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover in this March 3, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Fabrizio BenschReuters - International Business Machines Corp plans to launch cloud computing services this year, taking on companies such as Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp and Google Inc.


Mani Ratnam released from hospital (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 03:23 PM PDT

Director Mani Ratnam arrives for the world premiere of his Bollywood film Reuters - Filmmaker Mani Ratnam has been released from hospital, a week after he was admitted with chest discomfort, a hospital spokeswoman said on Thursday.


Sri Lanka struggles to cope with war zone refugees (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 07:01 AM PDT

Civilians arrive at the village of Putumatalan in Puthukkudiyirippu, northern Sri Lanka April 22, 2009 after fleeing an area still controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the 'No Fire Zone'. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Authorities are struggling to cope with more than 100,000 people who have fled Sri Lanka's war zone, aid agencies said on Thursday, while fighting blocked the Red Cross from evacuating wounded people and delivering aid.


Millions of Indians vote in new round of mammoth poll (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 03:27 PM PDT

A polling officer checks an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) at a distribution centre, ahead of the polls on Thursday, in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala, April 22, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta DeyReuters - Millions of Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voted peacefully on Thursday in the second stage of a month-long general election that could produce a weak coalition government.


Congress might face setback in Andhra Pradesh (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 04:13 AM PDT

Labourers load sugarcane on a cart in a field at Zaherabad, about 110 km west of Hyderabad, April 17, 2008, file photo. REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - If this Indian bellwether state of high-tech industry and struggling farmers is anything to go by, the ruling Congress party may suffer at the ballot box as regional parties woo frustrated voters.


Pakistan deploys troops in Taliban-held district (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 05:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan on Thursday sent paramilitary troops to a district virtually taken over by the Taliban, a day after Washington said Islamabad had abdicated to the militants by agreeing to impose Islamic law in the region.

Annual inflation unexpectedly nudges up (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 02:58 AM PDT

A shopkeeper packs vegetables for a customer at a streetside shop in Mumbai in this March 19, 2009 file photo. India's wholesale price index  rose 0.26 percent in the 12 months to April 11, above the previous week's annual rise of 0.18 percent, government data showed on Thursday. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - India's annual inflation rate unexpectedly rose in the second week of April on higher food and manufactured product prices, but analysts said inflation would turn negative in coming weeks paving the way for more rate cuts.


ELECTION EYE - Left says may join government (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 09:50 PM PDT

Prakash Karat, the chief of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), speaks during an election rally in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala April 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta DeyReuters - The following is a snapshot of recent developments in India's general election campaign. (The sources are mentioned in brackets).


Rising bad debts cast shadow over bank earnings (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Apr 2009 01:03 AM PDT

A customer uses his card to withdraw money from an ATM in Jammu in this October 14, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Amit Gupta/FilesReuters - State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, is expected to post a 16.3 percent rise in quarterly net profit on strong loan growth, but rival ICICI Bank could see profit slump by a third on consumer defaults.


FACTBOX - Farm policies of India's main political parties (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Apr 2009 11:45 PM PDT

Labourers reap wheat crop in a field on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Amritsar April 20, 2009. REUTERS/Munish SharmaReuters - The likely formation of a Congress-led government after India's elections will help resume exports of wheat and rice and continue existing policies but if it needs the support of its leftist allies, this may stifle farm futures and discourage grain purchases by foreign firms.


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