Unease in India-U.S. relations as Holbrooke arrives (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 11:30 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke will meet Indian officials on Wednesday amid concern in New Delhi that Washington's new regional strategy for Afghanistan is pandering to its old foe Pakistan. |
India urges rich not to use "green" protectionism (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 11:34 AM PDT Reuters - India urged rich nations against applying a carbon tariff on steel and other imports, on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday. |
CBI files charges in Satyam fraud case (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 08:03 AM PDT Reuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Tuesday it had filed charges against nine people including Satyam Computer Services' founder and former chairman Ramalinga Raju for alleged involvement in accounting fraud at the outsourcing firm. |
Bollywood producers call 'cut' on multiplex releases (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 07:31 AM PDT Reuters - Bollywood producers in India insisting on a greater share of box-office revenues are refusing to release new movies in multiplexes, piling on woes in an industry that is already battling a slowdown. |
Journalist throws shoe at Chidambaram (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 02:04 AM PDT Reuters - A Sikh journalist threw a shoe at Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram during a news conference on Tuesday after getting angry with the minister's reply to a question about 1984 riots in which hundreds of Sikhs were killed. |
ELECTION - Reuters poll sees food prices as major issue (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 04:16 AM PDT Reuters - High food prices and the impact of a global economic slowdown are the major issues for voters in India's April/May general election, a Reuters poll of 14 leading analysts has predicted. |
India can be the world's best team - Srikkanth (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 03:02 AM PDT Reuters - India won their first test series on New Zealand soil in 41 years on Tuesday after rain spoilt their chances of winning the third and final test at the Basin Reserve. |
Pakistan, U.S. stress trust, disagree on drones (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 07:17 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan and the United States must build trust as they confront Islamist militant violence, senior officials said on Tuesday, but they failed to resolve disagreement on U.S. drone aircraft strikes in Pakistan. |
India claim series victory as rain ends test (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 11:53 PM PDT Reuters - India claimed their first test series victory in New Zealand since 1968 after rain forced the third match at the Basin Reserve to end in a draw on Tuesday. |
ELECTION EYE - Mayawati promises job "quotas" for all poor (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 11:25 PM PDT Reuters - The following is a snapshot of recent developments in India's general election campaign. (The sources are mentioned in brackets) |
Quarter of companies globally set to freeze pay - survey (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 09:21 PM PDT Reuters - A quarter of the world's companies, and 40 percent in the United States, plan to freeze salaries this year, but employees in South America and India can look forward to robust rises, a global survey shows on Tuesday. |
Travel remains top passion for Asia's high-flyers (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 11:56 PM PDT Reuters - Travel is the not-so-guilty passion of Asia's top money earners, according to a survey by Visa, with people from Hong Kong and India most likely to go on a weekend get-away. |
Winning series fantastic but adds to pressure - Dhoni (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 12:09 AM PDT Reuters - India's first test series win in New Zealand in 41 years is a big achievement but it set a benchmark that future teams would have to live up to, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said on Tuesday. |
Four blasts in Assam kill 8 before PM visit (Reuters) Posted: 06 Apr 2009 05:48 PM PDT Reuters - Four bomb blasts killed eight people in Assam on Monday, a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was due to visit the region, police said. |
Pakistan fighting militants for survival - Zardari (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2009 12:49 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan is battling Islamist militants for its survival, President Asif Ali Zardari told a visiting U.S. envoy who urged Pakistan to eliminate militant enclaves on the Afghan border, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. |