2009年8月8日星期六

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


PM asks states to act on poor rains (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 07:27 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks during a news conference in Chennai in this May 9, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/BabuReuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked state governments on Saturday to take first steps to deal with poor monsoon rains that have hit sowing of important crops, leading to a sharp rise in prices of food items like sugar.


Officials allay security fears for world badminton championships (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 07:51 AM PDT

Japanese players attend a practice session ahead of the Reuters - One thousand police officials and commandos, including experts trained to deal with terror threats, have been assigned to the world badminton championships, the local police commissioner has said.


Iran charges French woman, embassy workers with plot (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 11:48 AM PDT

French language teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss testifies during her trial at the Revolutionary court in Tehran August 8, 2009. REUTERS/Fars NewsReuters - An Iranian court on Saturday charged a French woman, two Iranians working for the British and French embassies in Tehran and dozens of others with spying and aiding a Western plot to overthrow the system of clerical rule.


Fighting erupts between Taliban rivals - Pakistan govt (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 10:13 AM PDT

Pakistan's Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik speaks during a news conference in Islamabad March 9, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - The Pakistani government has received reports that shooting broke out between two rivals for the leadership of the Pakistani Taliban, and one of them may have been killed, the interior minister said on Saturday.


Indonesia believes top militant dead, thwarts attack (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 05:27 AM PDT

A forensic team carry the coffin of suspected Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top after arriving at a police hospital in Jakarta August 8, 2009. REUTERS/SupriReuters - Indonesian police shot dead a man suspected to be leading Islamic militant Noordin Mohammad Top after an 18-hour siege in Central Java and planned to confirm his identity using DNA tests, police said on Saturday.


India detains "suspect" North Korean sugar ship (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:25 AM PDT

Reuters - The coastguard has detained a "suspicious" North Korean ship carrying a cargo of sugar off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after a more than six-hour chase, the Times of India said on Saturday.

Troops says kills 6 on Kashmir border, incursions rise (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 03:00 AM PDT

Reuters - Troops shot dead six Muslim rebels as they tried to cross into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side, the sixth infiltration attempt to be foiled in the past one week, the army said on Saturday.

Sri Lanka holds first post-war polls in north (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 04:13 AM PDT

Reuters - Sri Lanka on Saturday held the first elections in 11 years in two towns at the edge of the area formerly ruled by the Tamil Tiger rebels, who were crushed when the government won a 25-year civil war in May.

INTERVIEW - Jeev Milkha Singh eyes major glory and Cup spot (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Aug 2009 06:18 PM PDT

Jeev Milkha Singh of India hits his tee shot in the 12th hole during completion of the rain-delayed first round in the U.S. Open golf championship on the Black Course at Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, New York, June 19, 2009.     REUTERS/John Sommers II/FilesReuters - Having battled with a lingering rib injury for the last two months, India's Jeev Milkha Singh has regained fitness and set his sights on the final major of the year and a possible Presidents Cup debut.


Pakistani Taliban sows doubt over leader's death (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2009 03:47 AM PDT

Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud attends a news conference in an unknown location in this undated file image from a video grab. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - A fellow commander in the Pakistani Taliban insisted that Baitullah Mehsud, the movement's leader, was alive, the BBC reported on Saturday, rejecting government claims he had been eliminated in a U.S. drone strike.


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