2009年7月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Supreme Court to take up gas dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 10:19 AM PDT

File photo of Chairman of Reliance Industries Ltd Mukesh Ambani speaking as his brother Anil Ambani watches in Mumbai. India's highest court on Monday said it would consider on Sept. 1 the dispute between Reliance Industries and Reliance Natural Resources over a gas sales-pact, and the government's attempt to step in. REUTERS/Arko DuttaReuters - India's highest court on Monday said it would consider on Sept. 1 the dispute between Reliance Industries and Reliance Natural Resources over a gas sales-pact, and the government's attempt to step in.


West Bengal farmers fight bad monsoon with frog marriage (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:57 AM PDT

A woman performs rituals during a frog marriage at Madhyaboragari village, about 85 km (52 miles) east of eastern Indian city of Siliguri July 19, 2009. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - Indian farmers are falling back on a trusted local method to bring badly needed monsoon rains -- marrying off two frogs.


Maoists threaten to kill PM, Sonia Gandhi (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:25 AM PDT

India's ruling Congress party Chief Sonia Gandhi talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during an oath-taking ceremony inside the presidential palace in New Delhi in this May 28, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - India's Maoist guerrillas on Tuesday threatened to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and ruling Congress party president Sonia Gandhi in what analysts said was the most aggressive threat yet from an increasingly lethal and widespread insurgency.


U.S. envoy heads to Afghanistan and Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:25 PM PDT

U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke uses his phone during an interview with Reuters at the G8 foreign ministers meeting in the Italian northern Adriatic port of Trieste June 27, 2009. REUTERS/Nikola Solic/FilesReuters - U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke left for Pakistan on Tuesday in a trip that will focus on the plight of people displaced by recent fighting, the State Department said.


India may provide more relief to exporters - trade min (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 06:26 AM PDT

India's new commerce and industry minister, Anand Sharma speaks during an during an interview in New York, June 19, 2009. REUTERS/Chip East/FilesReuters - India may consider more relief measures for exporters at the trade policy review in August as the global slump continues to plague the sector, trade minister Anand Sharma said on Tuesday.


Rains boost rice crop in Punjab, Haryana (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:03 AM PDT

Labourers plant saplings at a paddy field in Chunni village, in the northern Indian state of Punjab in this July 2, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Ajay Verma/FilesReuters - Rains in most parts of India's key northwestern grain-producing areas have boosted the rice crop and the weather office has forecast more showers in the region, officials said on Tuesday.


Harry Potter film conjures up record opening in UK (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 06:22 AM PDT

Actor Daniel Radcliffe arrives for the premiere of the film Reuters - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", the sixth out of eight movies in the hit boy wizard franchise, earned 19.8 million pounds ($32.46 million) at the British box office over its opening five days, setting a new record.


India, U.S. say agree nuclear sites, defence pact (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 12:13 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses Indian students during a function at a university campus in New Delhi July 20, 2009. REUTERS/Fayaz KabliReuters - The United States and India said on Monday they had agreed on a defence pact that takes a major step towards allowing the sale of sophisticated U.S. arms to the South Asian nation as it modernises its military.


INTERVIEW - Dell interested in Indian-model IT firms (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 05:16 AM PDT

A Dell laptop computer is seen in New York in this August 26, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesReuters - Dell, the world's second-biggest maker of personal computers after Hewlett-Packard, wants to buy lean IT companies of the Indian school of outsourcing to improve its scale and credibility in services.


SCENARIOS - Possible impact of monsoons on India's crops (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 03:57 AM PDT

Veiled Muslim women walk with children at a beach as monsoon clouds gather in Mumbai in this August 6, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Adeel Halim/FilesReuters - Most parts of India received good monsoon rains in the past 10 days but patchy showers in the first five weeks of the June-September season have already delayed sowing of most crops.


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