Tendulkar wants top spot for India to mark 20 years (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:26 AM PDT Reuters - Sachin Tendulkar is hoping he can mark his 20 years in international cricket by leading India to become the world's top ranked one-day team. |
Bharti to charge 50 paisa/min for local, STD calls (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:53 AM PDT Reuters - Leading mobile firm Bharti Airtel on Friday said it would charge 50 paisa per minute (1 U.S. cent) for local and national calls on its network, heating up competition in a market that already has some of the world's cheapest tariffs. |
Lawyers in Myanmar appeal against Suu Kyi sentence (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:04 AM PDT Reuters - A Myanmar court heard on Friday an appeal by opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her conviction for an internal security breach earlier this year. |
Pakistan police to arrest Hafiz Saeed (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 11:42 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistani police plan to arrest an Islamist militant leader accused by India of masterminding last year's Mumbai attack, a move likely to help ease fraught relations with New Delhi. |
S.Africa's COSATU wants MTN, Bharti blocked - sources (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 10:27 AM PDT Reuters - South Africa's labour federation COSATU is trying to halt a planned multi-billion tie-up between MTN and Bharti Airtel but the Treasury wants a deal, sources close to the matter said. |
India in touch with Israel over new attack tipoff (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 04:48 AM PDT Reuters - Indian officials said on Friday they were in contact with Israel after a television report said Jerusalem had a "pinpoint" intelligence tip-off about Pakistani militants attacking India in the coming weeks. |
Lionel Messi signs two-year contract extension with Barcelona (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 07:47 AM PDT Reuters - Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has signed a two-year contract extension with the European champions until 2016, the club said on Friday. |
Suicide car bomber in Pakistan kills 33 (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 06:10 AM PDT Reuters - A suicide car-bomber killed 33 people in northwest Pakistan on Friday in an explosion on a road that brought down shops where people were stocking up before a holiday. |
India World Cup event gets bullet over Olympic snub (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:07 AM PDT Reuters - India has refused to stage a World Cup meet early next year after it was dropped as an Olympic qualifying event and not because facilities at the venue were lacking. |
Police kill 24 Maoists in Chhattisgarh gun battle (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 03:59 AM PDT Reuters - Police and Maoist rebels battled in a remote jungle in Chhattisgarh, leaving at least 24 Maoist rebels and one senior police officer dead in one of the deadliest gunfights this year, police said. |
S.Africa union wants MTN, Bharti blocked - sources (Reuters) Posted: 18 Sep 2009 08:26 AM PDT Reuters - South Africa's labour federation COSATU is trying to halt a planned multi-billion tie-up between MTN and India's Bharti Airtel but the government wants a deal, sources close to the matter said. |
RBI: WPI inflation may hit 6 pct by March (Reuters) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 11:40 PM PDT Reuters - India's annual inflation based on wholesale prices could hit 6 percent by March, above the Reserve Bank's July forecast of around 5 percent, a deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said on Friday. |
ANALYSIS - Booming China-India ties strained by border tension (Reuters) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 09:00 PM PDT Reuters - Anger over troop deployments, reports of border incursions, and a high-pitched media debate have reignited strains between China and India over long-festering border disputes in the Himalayas. |
Q+A - India and China's disputed border (Reuters) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 08:58 PM PDT Reuters - Here are some questions and answers about the Indian-Chinese border, the source this year of increasing tension between the two Asian powers. |
RBI deputy governor - Early policy unwind riskier (Reuters) Posted: 17 Sep 2009 08:06 PM PDT Reuters - The Reserve Bank of India's deputy governor hinted on Thursday it was too soon for the central bank to unwind its accommodative monetary policy even though the South Asian economy has shown signs of resilience. |