Water conservation key to combat shortage (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 08:34 AM PDT Reuters - The world can only feed an extra 2.3 billion people through 2050 by conserving water and lifting food yields, the head of the Sri Lanka-based International Water Management Institute said on Friday. |
Met office rules out early monsoon withdrawal (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 05:18 AM PDT Reuters - The weather office has ruled out an early withdrawal for this year's monsoon which has still one and half months to complete its full journey. |
Travel hurdles mask tension between India, U.S. envoy (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 04:32 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's visit to India has been put off for a second time in a month amid concern in New Delhi that his frequent trips were part of efforts to extend his regional mission beyond Pakistan and Afghanistan. |
India says no nuclear cargo on North Korean ship (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:41 AM PDT Reuters - Indian authorities have found no nuclear cargo aboard a North Korean ship held in the Bay of Bengal, but will proceed with investigations to ensure crew statements contain no discrepancies, officials said on Friday. |
Top seeds Lee, Zhou tumble out of badminton worlds (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 07:11 AM PDT Reuters - Malaysian world number one Lee Chong Wei and women's top seed Zhou Mi of Hong Kong were knocked out in the quarter-finals of the badminton world championships on Friday. |
Christie's to sell producer Merchant's collection (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 01:09 AM PDT Reuters - Christie's will offer art and furniture belonging to the late Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant at a London sale on Oct. 7, the auctioneer said on Friday. |
INTERVIEW - Climate means new business, not trade war - US envoy (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 02:58 AM PDT Reuters - Trade wars after a planned U.N. climate deal are implausible, partly because of a surge of new business opportunities creating jobs in clean energy, the head of the U.S. delegation at U.N. climate talks said. |
Pakistani suspects refused UK bail due coded to email (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 04:50 AM PDT Reuters - Five Pakistani men arrested in a British anti-terrorism operation but never charged have been refused bail because they had exchanged a series of coded emails, officials said. |
Too early to act on inflation - RBI chief (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 03:38 AM PDT Reuters - The outlook for farm output in India is a concern and price pressures could build up at some stage but it is too early to take action on inflation, the central bank chief said on Friday. |
Growth seen at 6-6.5 pct in FY10 - econ adviser (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 01:24 AM PDT Reuters - India's economic growth is expected to be between 6.0 to 6.5 percent in the 2009/10 fiscal year, the chairman of the prime minister's economic advisory panel said on Friday. |
India aims for robust GDP growth despite drought (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 09:37 PM PDT Reuters - India's economy can achieve in the year to March 2010 the same level of growth seen a year earlier despite worsening dry conditions that threaten to dent its nascent recovery, Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said on Thursday. |
Govt sets up panel for gas dispute stand - report (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 11:00 PM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has set up a panel of four cabinet ministers to continuously monitor the government's stand on the Ambani brothers' gas dispute in Supreme Court, The Economic Times reported on Friday. |
Govt borrowing hits policy transmission - RBI (Reuters) Posted: 14 Aug 2009 12:06 AM PDT Reuters - A rapid expansion in the Indian government's borrowing impedes the central bank's monetary policy transmission, the Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Friday. He was speaking at a central bank event in Hyderabad. |
India, ASEAN embrace free trade, but not in IT (Reuters) Posted: 13 Aug 2009 11:16 PM PDT Reuters - India and the 10-country Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN signed a free trade agreement on Thursday after more than six years of negotiations, but the deal did not embrace software and information technology. |