Russia hosts first BRIC summit, India-Pakistan meet (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 05:25 PM PDT Reuters - The world's biggest emerging market powers will seek to craft a united front on repairing the global financial system when they meet for the first formal BRIC summit on Tuesday. |
India may need to rest players from IPL says coach (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - Indian administrators may need to rest their leading players from the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) in future, national coach Gary Kirsten said on Monday. |
Sarwan, Chanderpaul send England packing (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:26 PM PDT Reuters - West Indies advanced to the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals after knocking out England in a rain reduced second-round match on Monday. |
Protesters plan more mass rallies in Iran (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:43 PM PDT Reuters - Iranian demonstrators called for more mass protests on Tuesday, a day after hardline Islamic militiamen killed a man during a march by tens of thousands against a presidential election they say was rigged. |
Man fires at police probing Vienna temple attack (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 10:28 AM PDT Reuters - A man shot at police in Vienna on Monday as they prepared to raid an apartment in connection with last month's attack on a Sikh temple in the Austrian capital which killed an Indian preacher, police said. |
INTERVIEW - India says Doha trade "impasse" broken (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 09:41 AM PDT Reuters - India's trade minister Anand Sharma said on Monday that "the impasse has been broken" over the World Trade Organisation's long-running Doha round of world trade talks. |
Pakistan complete easy win over Ireland (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 09:03 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan completed an untroubled 39-run win over Ireland at the Oval on Monday in their final Twenty20 World Cup second round match. |
Monsoon seen reviving around June 20 - IMD (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 06:46 AM PDT Reuters - India's annual monsoon rains are seen reviving around June 20, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on its website late Monday evening. |
TIMELINE - Highs and lows in Pakistan-India ties (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 08:02 AM PDT Reuters - The leaders of India and Pakistan are expected to meet on Tuesday in Russia, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) conference. |
Actor Shiney Ahuja in police custody on rape charge (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 08:55 AM PDT Reuters - A Mumbai court on Monday remanded Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja to three days in police custody after police charged him with raping his teenaged maid, his lawyer said. |
Indian, Pakistani leaders expected to meet on Tuesday (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 09:28 AM PDT Reuters - The leaders of India and Pakistan will hold talks in Russia on Tuesday, raising expectations their first meeting since last November's Mumbai attacks will ease tensions between the two countries. |
One Iranian dead as shots fired at Mousavi rally (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 12:18 PM PDT Reuters - Iran's hardline Islamic Basij militiamen killed at least one person on Monday and wounded more when their building was attacked by demonstrators protesting an election they say was stolen by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. |
Twenty20 tasty, but no substitute for tests - Tendulkar (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:34 AM PDT Reuters - Sachin Tendulkar's young son is hooked on Twenty20 cricket but the Indian master still believes five-day test cricket is king. |
Erotic Review owner: "Women can't write about sex" (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 06:43 AM PDT Reuters - Women are not passionate enough about sex and concentrate too much on feelings to be able to write raunchy stories, the new owner of Britain's Erotic Review said on Monday. |
Kallis to miss India match with minor back injury (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 06:34 AM PDT Reuters - Jacques Kallis, the top run-scorer in the Twenty20 World Cup, will miss South Africa's final second round match against India on Tuesday because of injury. |
Nepal's Maoists shut down Kathmandu with strike (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 04:47 AM PDT Reuters - Nepal's Maoists brought Kathmandu to a standstill on Monday, forcing vehicles off the road and shops to shut in response to a general strike to protest the death of a local Maoist leader, police said. |
Pakistan steels for army assault on Waziristan (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 06:14 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan braced for militant reprisals on Monday as the army conducted softening-up operations ahead of an assault on the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, one of al Qaeda's main allies. |
INTERVIEW - India Yes Bank sees 1st Africa farm project start 2011 (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 07:32 AM PDT Reuters - Yes Bank expects a $150 million Tanzanian rice and wheat project to reach full production by 2011, the first of several large African farms it is funding, a senior bank official said on Monday. |
Consolidation in banks needed - RBI deputy (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 05:35 AM PDT Reuters - Consolidation in banks is necessary and the issue facing the sector is to meet the growing capital needs of banks, the new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor K.C. Chakrabarty said on Monday. |
India, Pakistan leaders plan meeting Tuesday - source (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2009 02:46 AM PDT Reuters - The leaders of India and Pakistan plan to meet on Tuesday in Yekaterinburg, their first such talks since last November's terror attacks on Mumbai, an official who is helping to organise meetings at a summit in Russia told Reuters on Monday. |