2009年8月17日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


DreamWorks closes film financing deal with Reliance (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:34 PM PDT

U.S. director Steven Spielberg attends a photocall for the film Reuters - DreamWorks Studios has closed a film financing deal with Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, the companies said on Monday.


Prime Minister says Pakistan groups planning new attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 08:56 AM PDT

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gestures during the national communal harmony awards ceremony in New Delhi August 12, 2009.  REUTERS/B MathurReuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday there was "credible information" that Pakistan-based militant groups were planning fresh attacks on India.


Indian markets wobble on econ outlook worries (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 06:06 AM PDT

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building seen in this May 22, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Punit ParanjpeReuters - Indian stocks dropped 4.1 percent and the rupee slid on Monday as a poor monsoon season and global wariness over the strength of an economic recovery triggered worries that foreign investors would retreat from the country after fuelling a recent rally.


Jackson's dad says burial set for Aug. 29 - report (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 01:09 PM PDT

Singer Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson, arrives for a memorial service in the singer's home town of Gary, Indiana in this July 10, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/John Gress/FilesReuters - Michael Jackson's father has said the "King of Pop" will be buried at a Los Angeles cemetery on Aug. 29, which would have been his 51st birthday, a newspaper reported on Monday.


India is cool in Brazil thanks to hot 'novela' (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 10:22 AM PDT

Reuters - The pink-walled palaces, shimmering saris and Bollywood dances all scream India. So why are the actors speaking Portuguese and kissing passionately?

Govt aims for big winter crop as monsoon woes mount (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 08:47 AM PDT

Farm Minister Sharad Pawar speaks during an interview with Reuters in New Delhi March 25, 2009. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur/FilesReuters - India aims to raise planting of winter-sown crops and improve irrigation to make up for the damage to farms and to try to counter rising food prices after poor monsoon rains hurt crops such as rice and sugarcane.


Interest rates may harden at end 09/10 - Rangarajan (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 07:49 AM PDT

C. Rangarajan, who heads the Prime Minister's economic advisory panel, listens to a speaker during a banking conference in Mumbai September 12, 2007. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - Indian interest rates may slightly harden at the end of the current financial year ending March 2010, a top policymaker said on Monday.


Renault cleared to race in Valencia (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Renault driver Fernando Alonso of Spain steers his car on three wheels into the pit-lane during the Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix at the Hungaroring circuit near Budapest July 26, 2009. REUTERS/Bela Szandelszky/Pool/FilesReuters - The Renault Formula One team and Spain's Fernando Alonso were given the green light to compete in Valencia this weekend after getting a one-race suspension overturned on Monday.


Returned Afghan general throws weight behind Karzai (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:59 AM PDT

Cameramen try to regain balance after the main media stage collapsed during a campaign rally for presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Kabul's National Stadium August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - One of Afghanistan's most notorious militia leaders threw his support behind President Hamid Karzai at a chaotic rally on Monday, the final day of campaigning for this week's election.


Bomb blast kills six in northwest Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:50 AM PDT

A policeman examines a vehicle at the site of an explosion in Charssada located in the northwest province, about 160 km north west of Islamabad, August 17, 2009. REUTERS/Ali ImamReuters - A bomb planted in a vehicle killed six people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday as soldiers killed 13 militants in fresh clashes in the Swat valley where the army has made gains in a three-month offensive.


Faith rites boost brains, even for atheists - book (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 09:24 AM PDT

A Buddhist monk meditates during a 72-hour meditation retreat in the southern German town of Immenstadt, August 19, 2008. REUTERS/Alexandra Beier/FilesReuters - Buddhist monks and Catholic nuns boost their brain power through meditation and prayer, but even atheists can enjoy the mental benefits that believers derive from faith, according to a popular neuroscience author.


Dravid says has nothing to prove after ODI recall (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 02:54 AM PDT

India's Rahul Dravid is pictured during team training the day before their first test cricket match against New Zealand in Hamilton, March 17, 2009, file photo. REUTERS/Nigel MarpleReuters - Former cricket captain Rahul Dravid has nothing to prove to his critics and says he is just glad to be back in the one-day side.


Warne urges abolition of 50 overs internationals (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 07:01 AM PDT

Australia's former cricket player Shane Warne poses for a photograph at the Investec media centre during the lunch break at the second Ashes cricket test match between England and Australia at Lord's Cricket Ground in London July 16, 2009. REUTERS/Philip Brown/FilesReuters - Former Australia leg-spinner Shane Warne called on Monday for the abolition of 50 overs internationals in favour of the Twenty20 game.


U.S. considers funding Pakistan energy projects (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 07:53 AM PDT

Shaukat Tarin, the prime minister's top adviser on economic affairs, speaks at a news conference in Islamabad October 23, 2008. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - President Barack Obama's special envoy said on Monday the United States was considering funding projects to upgrade Pakistan's antiquated power sector, but played down the speed at which assistance would materialise and crippling electricity shortages would end.


RBI: high borrowing hindering policy (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 07:08 AM PDT

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao speaks during a business conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi in this March 26, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Vijay MathurReuters - High government borrowing was hindering monetary policy transmission, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao told a function on Monday.


Bolt mesmerises with record-shattering run (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 09:28 PM PDT

Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates after winning the men's 100 metres final during the world athletics championships at the Olympic stadium in Berlin August 16, 2009. REUTERS/Kai PfaffenbachReuters - Jamaica's Usain Bolt obliterated his own 100 metres world record to win the world championship final in a breathtaking 9.58 seconds on Sunday.


Baha'is have roots in Iran, shrines in Israel (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 03:50 AM PDT

Reuters - A gold-enamelled domed shrine set among tranquil, steeply terraced gardens looks out over Israel's busy port of Haifa and the Mediterranean beyond.

Leader of banned Pakistan militant group shot dead (Reuters)

Posted: 16 Aug 2009 11:18 PM PDT

Reuters - The leader of a banned Sunni Muslim militant party in Pakistan was shot dead on Monday in an apparent sectarian attack, police and party officials said.

BSE Sensex falls 4.1 pct on global equities slide (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2009 04:18 AM PDT

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building is seen in this file photo. REUTERS/Punit ParanjpeReuters - Indian shares dropped 4.1 percent on Monday in their biggest fall since the budget in early July, as worries about the pace of global economic recovery sparked a broad sell-of in equity markets across the world.


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