2009年7月16日星期四

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Monsoon rain too late for sugarcane, rice (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 09:28 AM PDT

Jashpal Singh, a farmer, casts pesticides on his rice paddy field on the outskirts of Amritsar July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Munish SharmaReuters - India's monsoon delivered above-average rains last week for the first time this season but the worst dry patch in more than 80 years has already hit rice and sugarcane crops.


Clinton aims to deepen ties, dispel doubts in India (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 05:25 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a major foreign policy address at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, July 15, 2009.   REUTERS/Hyungwon KangReuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves for India on Thursday on a high-profile mission to deepen ties and dispel any doubts about the U.S. commitment to New Delhi under U.S. President Barack Obama.


Circumcision helps protect men, not women from AIDS (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 05:04 PM PDT

A woman walks past a poster with an AIDS red ribbon at the global village during the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in this August 6, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Henry Romero/FilesReuters - Circumcision may help protect men from the AIDS virus but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men, researchers reported on Thursday.


Tata Motors to deliver first Nano on Friday (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 04:40 AM PDT

Tata Motors 'Nano' car is displayed at a showroom in New Delhi April 1, 2009, file photo. REUTERS/Vijay MathurReuters - Tata Motors Ltd, India's largest vehicles maker, said on Thursday it would deliver the Nano, the world's cheapest car, to its first customer on Friday.


Q+A - India-U.S. ties past, present and future (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 05:19 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers a major foreign policy address at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington July 15, 2009.     REUTERS/Hyungwon KangReuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in India this week against the backdrop of New Delhi's strained relations with neighbor Pakistan, the global slowdown and the war in Afghanistan.


India, Pakistan meet, no formal peace talks yet (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 02:11 PM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (L) and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meet during the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - India and Pakistan agreed on Thursday to work together to fight terrorism and ordered their top diplomats to meet as often as needed to try to rebuild ties damaged by last year's Mumbai attacks.


Viterra says to outsource 46 IT jobs to EDS, Infosys (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:44 PM PDT

Reuters - Canada's biggest grain-handling and farm supply company, Viterra, will outsource 46 information technology jobs, or about 1 percent of its work force, as it prepares for global expansion, the company said on Thursday.

TEXT - India, Pakistan prime ministers' joint statement (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 07:10 AM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (L) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - India and Pakistan agreed on Thursday to work together to fight terrorism and ordered senior diplomats to meet as often as needed to improve relations between the two countries, a joint statement by their prime ministers said.


Next India v Australia Davis Cup tie in India - ITF (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 08:26 AM PDT

Reuters - The next Davis Cup tie between India and Australia will be a home fixture for India, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) ruled on Thursday.

Just A Minute With: Amit Khanna on Reliance-DreamWorks deal (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 06:48 AM PDT

A handout photo of Amit Khanna, chairman of Reliance Big Entertainment, a division of Reliance ADA Group. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Reliance ADA Group and DreamWorks Studios are closing in on a deal that could see director Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks receive $825 million in film financing to begin producing movies starting this year.


PM Singh tells Bangladesh will look at dam (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 06:28 AM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina that he will examine a dam project that is drawing fire from Bangladeshi politicians and pressure groups, local media said on Thursday.

INSTANT VIEW - India, Pakistan say dialogue best course (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 05:36 AM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (L) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani at a summit in Egypt on Thursday and agreed that dialogue was the best way to repair relations strained since the November attacks in Mumbai.


U.N. team digs into Pakistan's Bhutto conspiracy theories (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 02:39 AM PDT

Policemen keep guard near an image of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi July 1, 2009, near the site where she was assassinated in December 27, 2007. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - A three-member U.N. commission arrived in Pakistan on Thursday to conduct an inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.


Puppy love blooms on India dog dating websites (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 12:10 AM PDT

A woman waits with her Shih Tzu during the annual dog show in Kolkata January 18, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/FilesReuters - Leo is affectionate, likes stuffed toys, eats fish and is a hit with ladies looking for love online. Not bad, for a 3-year-old Golden Retriever.


ANALYSIS - Poor monsoon stalks India despite economic strides (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 01:07 AM PDT

A farmer and his bullocks cross a highway against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in Singur, about 50 km northwest of Kolkata, July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Parth SanyalReuters - India is fretting once again over a poor monsoon just as other signs point to a rebounding economy, exposing its nagging reliance on unpredictable seasonal rains despite its rapid growth and modernisation in recent years.


Just A Minute With: director Imtiaz Ali (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 08:13 AM PDT

Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone (L) and Saif Ali Khan unveil the music album for their forthcoming movie Reuters - In 2007, a film by a little known director earned box-office success and critical acclaim with a storyline that brought Bollywood romance back in fashion.


India, Pakistan agree more dialogue, to fight terror (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 07:21 AM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani (L) shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in the Egyptian Red Sea tourist resort of Sharm el-Sheikh July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah DalshReuters - India and Pakistan said on Thursday they had agreed to continue dialogue and would not link action on fighting terrorism to that process, after their prime ministers met in Egypt.


Monsoon revives, above normal in past week (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 04:56 AM PDT

A woman carrying an umbrella walks past a billboard on a rainy day in Mumbai July 14, 2009, file photo. REUTERS/Arko DattaReuters - India's monsoon rains were 6 percent above normal in the week to July 15, rebounding after a prolonged weak patch, the weather office said on Thursday.


Indian govt to reward companies backing sports (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 03:23 AM PDT

Children play cricket at the Nehru Nagar slum in Mumbai January 13, 2009. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - India has set up an annual government award for companies which promote sports in the medal-starved nation, domestic media reported on Thursday.


PM tells Bangladesh will look at dam issue - media (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Jul 2009 12:52 AM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Sharm el-Sheikh July 15, 2009. REUTERS/Khaled El Fiqi/PoolReuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina he will examine a dam project that is drawing fire from Bangladeshi politicians and pressure groups, local media said on Thursday.


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