2009年10月5日星期一

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India floods leave 2.5 million homeless, 250 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 07:49 AM PDT

An aerial view shows the flood-affected areas of Karnataka October 4, 2009. About 2.5 million people crammed into temporary relief shelters after floods triggered by torrential rains tore down their homes in southern India over the last week and killed some 250 people, officials said. REUTERS/Karnataka Government Information Department/HandoutReuters - Rescue workers used sandbags to stop a raging river from breaching its embankment near Vijayawada on Monday as floods triggered by heavy rains over the last week left 2.5 million people homeless.

Reliance Comm cuts call charges to flat rate (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 06:19 AM PDT

A man walks past a logo of Reliance Communication before the Annual General Meeting in Mumbai September 22, 2009. Reliance Communications, India's No. 2 mobile operator, on Monday reduced all call tariffs to a flat 50 paise (1 U.S. cent) per minute. REUTERS/Arko DattaReuters - Reliance Communications, India's No. 2 mobile operator, on Monday reduced all call tariffs to a flat 50 paise (1 U.S. cent) per minute, heating up a tariff war in the world's fastest-growing wireless market that offers some of the cheapest call rates.

Air India says mid-air scuffle no threat to safety (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 05:21 AM PDT

Air India aircrafts stand on the tarmac at the airport in Mumbai September 27, 2009. A mid-air scuffle between pilots and crew of an Air India flight at the weekend did not endanger the 106 passengers on board, said a spokesman for the airline which has ordered an inquiry. REUTERS/Punit ParanjpeReuters - A mid-air scuffle between pilots and crew of an Air India flight at the weekend did not endanger the 106 passengers on board, said a spokesman for the airline which has ordered an inquiry.

Bharti's Mittal eyes emerging markets opportunities (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:32 AM PDT

The chairman of Bharti Airtel Ltd. Sunil Mittal gestures during a news conference in Ladhowal, in Punjab, in this September 27, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Kamal Kishore/FilesReuters - Bharti Airtel will continue to scan emerging markets for acquisitions or partnerships after the Indian company ended talks over a cross-shareholding deal with South Africa's MTN last week, chairman Sunil Mittal said.

Recovery more important than inflation - Montek (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 06:42 AM PDT

India's Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia attends a business conference in New Delhi March 27, 2009. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur/FilesReuters - Economic recovery and job creation in India are more important than trying to tame inflation, as prices should ease because a drought is not as severe as first thought, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Monday.

U.S. trio wins medicine Nobel for ageing research (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 09:02 AM PDT

Carol Greider, a professor in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, gets a hug from a co-worker as she arrives at a reception at her office in Baltimore, Maryland, October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Three Americans won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for revealing the existence and nature of telomerase, an enzyme which helps prevent the fraying of chromosomes that underlies ageing and cancer.

ArcelorMittal still 'fully committed' to India (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:11 AM PDT

An Arcelor logo is seen behind a barbed wire fence at an ArcelorMittal factory in Ivoz-Ramet, near Liege April 8, 2009. REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet/FilesReuters - ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, said on Monday it remained committed to building steel plants in India, but could abandon existing plans and look for a different site.

Low health spend blamed for India's child mortality (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:43 AM PDT

Children eat food at an Reuters - Nearly 2 million children under five die from lack of care in India every year, more than in any other country, said a new report released on Monday which blames poor public health spending and entrenched inequalities.

Pakistan's Taliban chief alive, meets reporters (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 07:03 AM PDT

The chief of Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud (L) is seen in South Waziristan in this May 24, 2008 file photo. Mehsud, who U.S. and Pakistani officials said might be dead has surfaced to meet journalists in his stronghold of South Waziristan. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The new chief of Pakistani Taliban militants who U.S. and Pakistani officials said might be dead has surfaced to meet journalists in his stronghold of South Waziristan.

China vows to stand by isolated North Korea (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 06:13 AM PDT

China's Premier Wen Jiabao (2nd L) waves beside North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il (2nd R) after his arrival in Pyongyang in this October 4, 2009, in this picture released by North Korea's official news agency KCNA. REUTERS/KCNAReuters - China pledged to strengthen bonds with isolated North Korea, nudging it to improve its economy, while reports of Indian and South Korean swoops on North Korean shipping underscored strains behind a recent easing of tension.

India clears North Korean ship after inspection (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 12:30 AM PDT

Reuters - A North Korean ship that was detained for anchoring in Indian waters without permission was cleared after a thorough inspection, and has set sail, a navy spokesman said on Monday.

Salman Khursheed warns firms on "vulgar" top pay (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 11:09 PM PDT

Indian currency notes are stapled to form a garland at a market in Srinagar May 20, 2008. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/FilesReuters - Corporate affairs minister has warned firms against paying huge salaries to top company brass and said the government would keep a watch on executive compensation.

Some schools reopen in quake-hit Indonesia city (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 04:45 AM PDT

A junior high student returning home walks past the damaged Ambacang Hotel, after her teacher told students to go home after an earthquake struck Padang, West Sumatra province, October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Enny NuraheniReuters - Markets reopened and some children attended school in the earthquake-shattered city of Padang on Monday, but inland villages engulfed by landslides were to be left as mass graves to focus on getting aid to survivors.

Bomber kills 5 at Pakistani UN food agency office (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:52 AM PDT

Police, rescue workers and U.N. employees stand near the site of a bomb explosion inside a U.N. compound in Islamabad October 5, 2009. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A suicide bomber dressed as a paramilitary soldier attacked an office of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing five people and wounding several, officials said.

Floods kill 200 in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 10:46 PM PDT

Flood-affected people stand on top of a building in the Mantralaya district in Karnataka, October 3, 2009. Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 200 people in the past five days in southern India, destroyed standing crops and left tens of thousands of people homeless, officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Karnataka Government InformatioReuters - Floods triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 200 people in the past five days in southern India, destroyed standing crops and left tens of thousands of people homeless, officials said on Sunday.

Ship sinks as typhoon loiters off Philippines (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 03:53 AM PDT

Soldiers shovel mud covering school grounds during the opening of a school after flooding in Marikina City, Metro Manila, October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Cheryl RaveloReuters - A ship carrying refrigerated goods sank in the South China Sea, killing one person and leaving 10 crew missing, as a powerful storm stalled off the Philippines' northwestern coast on Monday, officials said.

Typhoon stalls, dumps rain on northern Philippines (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 12:57 AM PDT

Students line up behind damaged chairs during the opening of a school after flooding, in Marikina City, Metro Manila, October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Cheryl RaveloReuters - A powerful storm hovered off the Philippines' northwestern coast on Monday, two days after thrashing remote mountain areas on the main island Luzon and killing 22 people, officials said.

WPI inflation seen at 8 pct by end-March - Nomura (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 12:57 AM PDT

Reuters - India's annual inflation based on wholesale prices could speed to 8 percent by end-March 2010 backed by rising input costs and strengthening economic activity, Nomura said in a recent note.

Norway world's best place to live, Niger worst (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:27 PM PDT

The city of Oslo is pictured in the distance on a winters day February 9, 2009. REUTERS/Lise Aaserud / SCANPIX/FilesReuters - Norway has retained its status as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to U.N. data released on Monday, which ranks sub-Saharan African states afflicted by war and HIV/AIDS as the least attractive places.

IAEA to inspect Iran's Qom site Oct. 25 (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 08:49 PM PDT

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei speaks with Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, during a media conference in Tehran October 4, 2009. REUTERS/Caren FirouzReuters - U.N. experts will inspect Iran's newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant on Oct. 25, the IAEA nuclear agency chief said on Sunday, praising a shift "from conspiracy to cooperation" between Tehran and the West.

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