India says all options open to dismantle terror groups (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:26 AM CST Reuters - India will keep all options open to dismantle "terror outfits" after the Mumbai attacks in November, the Indian defence minister said on Wednesday. |
Satyam chief quits, says profits inflated (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:53 AM CST Reuters - The head of India's embattled Satyam Computer Services resigned on Wednesday and said the firm's profits had been inflated, sending the stock down more than 80 percent and roiling investor confidence. |
Pakistani spy chief says no war with India (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:50 AM CST Reuters - The chief of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has said there will not be a war with India over November's militant attacks on Mumbai, Der Spiegel reported. |
India shares provisionally fall 7.3 pct, Satyam dives (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 04:22 AM CST Reuters - Indian shares provisionally shed 7.31 percent on Wednesday after the head of Satyam Computer Services resigned and said the firm's profits had been inflated sending its stocks down more than three-fourth. |
Pietersen quits as England skipper - report (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:49 AM CST Reuters - Kevin Pietersen has resigned as captain of the England cricket team after appearing to lose a power struggle with coach Peter Moores, Sky News reported on Wednesday. |
India may cut fuel prices again - oil minister (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:07 AM CST Reuters - India may cut fuel prices again, Oil Minister Murli Deora said on Wednesday, a month after the government last lowered state-set rates for petrol and diesel. |
Bollywood bids Bush goodbye -- with a parting shot (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 11:45 PM CST Reuters - Barely two weeks before George W. Bush leaves the White House, Bollywood is ready with a farewell present -- a film that takes pot shots at the outgoing U.S. president. |
Seven dead in week-long Kashmir mountain battle (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:10 AM CST Reuters - Indian soldiers were fighting a handful of separatists holed up in mountain caves Kashmir in a week-long battle that has killed seven people so far, officials said on Wednesday. |
Strike hits some Indian refineries, natgas supply (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:25 AM CST Reuters - Officials at India's state-run oil firms began an indefinite strike on Wednesday, demanding higher wages, hitting operations at four refineries and cutting natural gas supply, company and union officials said. |
Sri Lanka's Tigers vow to beat back army offensive (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 01:00 AM CST Reuters - Sri Lankan soldiers pressured the Tamil Tigers' last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula on Wednesday, while the separatist rebels vowed to overcome the latest in a series of battlefield losses. |
Satyam disclosures rattle Indian shares (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 02:17 AM CST Reuters - Indian shares fell more than 7 percent on Wednesday after the chairman of Satyam Computer Services resigned saying the No. 4 outsourcer had inflated its earnings over the past few years. |
Obama offers CNN's Gupta U.S. surgeon general post (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 03:23 AM CST Reuters - President-elect Barack Obama has asked neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be U.S. surgeon general, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday. |
Police stop Kashmir procession, 80 hurt (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2009 07:55 AM CST Reuters - At least 80 people were wounded on Tuesday when Indian police broke up a procession by thousands of Shi'ite Muslims in the disputed region of Kashmir, police said. |
Satyam shares fall over 30 pct on chairman comments (Reuters) Posted: 07 Jan 2009 12:17 AM CST Reuters - Shares in Satyam Computer reversed gains to fall more than 30 percent after the chairman of the embattled Indian outsourcer resigned and said numbers in its September balance sheet were misstated. |