Shiney Ahuja gets bail in rape case (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 06:42 AM PDT Reuters - Bollywood actor Shiney Ahuja has been granted bail by the Mumbai High Court more than three months after he was arrested on charges of raping his maid. |
Failed monsoon leaves behind winter crop woes (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:34 AM PDT Reuters - India's monsoon season, the worst since 1972, wound up 23 percent below average in 2009, leaving behind ravaged rice and sugarcane fields, depleted reservoirs and dry soil that threatens winter crops. |
Pope urges Pakistan to protect Christian minorities (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:34 AM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict urged Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday to guarantee protection of minority Christians, who have been the target of violence in the overwhelmingly Islamic country. |
Failure of Bharti/MTN talks pleases investors (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:34 AM PDT Reuters - Bharti Airtel and MTN Group's shares rallied on Thursday after the telecoms groups failed to seal a $24 billion tie-up, and any future attempts are likely to be viewed sceptically, analysts said. |
China marks 60 years with spectacle of power (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 04:04 AM PDT Reuters - China celebrated its wealth and rising might with a show of goose-stepping troops, gaudy floats and nuclear-capable missiles in Beijing on Thursday, 60 years after Mao Zedong proclaimed its embrace of communism. |
Air force seeks permission to fire at Maoists (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 05:35 AM PDT Reuters - The air force has sought permission from the government to fire at Maoist guerrillas if they came under attack from the rebels during any operation, Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik said on Thursday. |
Data points to policy tightening next year (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 10:34 AM PDT Reuters - India's factory output rose in September and inflation accelerated on surging food prices, a trend analysts said could see the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) start unwinding accommodative policy in late 2009 or early 2010. |
Tourist boat accident toll climbs to 41 in India (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 05:24 AM PDT Reuters - The death toll from a boat accident in a wildlife sanctuary in Kerala has climbed to 41 and could rise, officials said on Thursday. |
Thousands feared dead after Indonesia quake (Reuters) Posted: 01 Oct 2009 05:43 AM PDT Reuters - Rescue teams struggled on Thursday to reach scores of people trapped under debris and survivors pleaded for aid after a powerful quake hit the Indonesian city of Padang, possibly killing thousands. |
India rejects Chinese protest at Dalai Lama trip (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 08:55 PM PDT Reuters - Foreign minister S.M. Krishna said on Wednesday China should not object to the Dalai Lama's planned trip to a northeast Indian state, part of which Beijing claims in a festering border dispute between the two Asian powers. |
IMF forecasts 2010 India GDP +6.4 pct (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 11:56 PM PDT Reuters - Major Asian economies achieved a remarkable rebound from the global financial crisis, but it is not certain the recovery can be sustained, the International Monetary fund said on Thursday. |
Tsunamis turn South Pacific paradise into deadly hell (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 08:15 PM PDT Reuters - Rescuers pulled bodies from the mud and twisted rubble and fished bloated corpses from the South Pacifc's blue sea off Samoa on Thursday as the death toll from a series of tsunamis continued to rise. |
Samoa quake exposes tsunami warning limitations (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 09:24 PM PDT Reuters - Successive tsunamis which pounded South Pacific islands, killing more than 100 people, have exposed the limitations of early alert systems set up since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an expert said on Thursday. |
India made mistakes in Champions Trophy - Dhoni (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 07:35 PM PDT Reuters - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted his team made mistakes during the Champions Trophy in which they failed to reach the semi-finals. |
Polanski faces harsher US justice system than 1977 (Reuters) Posted: 30 Sep 2009 08:04 PM PDT Reuters - If Los Angeles prosecutors succeed in extraditing Roman Polanski from Switzerland to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, the film director will find that U.S. courts treat his crime more severely than 30 years ago. |