2009年12月8日星期二

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


FEATURE - India revs up plans to expand road network (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:40 PM PST

Workers use road rollers during the rebuilding process of a road in Srinagar July 2, 2009. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/FilesReuters - Manufacturers who set up shop in India in the 1990s often joke they didn't just have to build factories back then, but also roads because it was faster than waiting for the state to build them.


U.N. summit "pretty good" if 20 pct CO2 cut - Pachauri (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:46 PM PST

Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), speaks during a news conference at the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen December 8, 2009.  REUTERS/Bob StrongReuters - A 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by rich nations would be a "pretty good" result for a U.N. climate summit even though it falls short of developing nations' hopes, the head of the U.N. climate panel said on Tuesday.


India plans to try David Headley for Mumbai attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:01 AM PST

The Metropolitan Correctional Center, where David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, accused by authorities of planning bomb attacks in Denmark, are being held, is seen in Chicago October 28, 2009.  REUTERS/John Gress/FilesReuters - Indian officials said on Tuesday they were collecting evidence to charge a Chicago man with helping plan last year's militant attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people and reignited tensions with Pakistan.


Tiger Woods' mother-in-law hospitalized in Florida (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 04:03 PM PST

Tiger Woods of the U.S. listens to a question at a news conference ahead of this weeks' Australian Masters golf tournament in Melbourne November 10, 2009.  REUTERS/Mick Tsikas/FilesReuters - * Mother of Woods' wife suffered stomach pain-hospital


Car bombs kill 112 in coordinated Baghdad attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:40 PM PST

Iraqi security personnel gather near a crater caused by a bomb attack in northern Baghdad, December 8, 2009. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - At least four car bombs killed 112 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, leaving charred buses and scattered body parts in a blow to the government's efforts to show it can defend Iraqis before U.S. troops withdraw in 2011.


Militants attack Pakistan spy agency office, 7 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 06:11 AM PST

A mother wounded in a bomb attack on a Pakistani security agency carries her infant away from the site of the blast in the Pakistani city of Multan December 8, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Militants armed with grenades and a car bomb killed at least seven people in an assault on an office of Pakistan's main security agency on Tuesday, officials said, the third major attack in two days.


Dubai "needs more time"; investor confidence hit (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 06:36 AM PST

Skyscrapers under construction are seen in Dubai's Marina area December 7, 2009. REUTERS/Mosab OmarReuters - Investor confidence in Dubai took a fresh knock on Tuesday as officials dithered over a rescue for debt-laden state conglomerate Dubai World and ratings agency Moody's slapped a downgrade on government-related debt.


Global Fund approves $279 mln in new grants for India (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 06:42 AM PST

About 2880 candles are seen lit during a World AIDS Day event in Jakarta December 1, 2009. REUTERS/Dadang TriReuters - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Tuesday it has approved $279 million in new grants for India, taking total funds for the world's second-most populous country to more than $1.1 billion.


HCL Tech says wins 5-yr News Corp contract (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 02:38 AM PST

Reuters - Software services firm HCL Technologies Ltd on Tuesday said it won a multi-million pound, five-year, outsourcing contract from the British arm of global media group News Corp. HCL will maintain the data centre and networks of News International, it said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. (Reporting by C.J. Kuncheria; editing by Sunil Nair)

ANALYSIS - China eyes India's spot as top gold consumer (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 03:26 AM PST

A female customer looks at gold bangles at a jewellery shop in Mumbai October 8, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - It's taken all of recorded history, but this year China finally looks set to overtake India as the world's number one gold consumer.


Dubai World, creditors mull new date for Dec debt (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2009 01:41 AM PST

A labourer walks alongside a construction site in Dubai Marina March 14, 2009. State-controlled Dubai World is discussing with its bank creditors a new date for $3.5 billion in debt maturing on Dec. 14, a Dubai newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing British bankers. REUTERS/Steve Crisp/FilesReuters - State-controlled Dubai World is discussing a new date with banks for $3.5 billion in debt falling due on Dec. 14, but with no deal yet announced, spooked investors sold Dubai shares down to 21-week lows.


Pranab Mukherjee: Share sale in 3 state firms by March (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 11:12 PM PST

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee speaks during a business meeting in New Delhi July 7, 2009. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur/FilesReuters - The government will complete share sales through public offers in three state companies by the end of March, the finance minister said on Tuesday.


China's rise named decade's most read news story (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2009 07:18 PM PST

A dragon-shaped lantern is lit up in a lake at a temple fair in Kunming, Yunnan province January 26, 2009. The rise of China as an economic superpower was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept. 11, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based media tracking group. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The rise of China as an economic superpower was the most read news story of the past decade, surpassing the Iraq War and the attacks of Sept. 11, according to an analysis by a U.S.-based media tracking group.


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