2010年3月23日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


IOC and Oil India say no plan to hike Gulfsands bid (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:26 PM PDT

Oil tankers are stationed for re-filling at the storage station of a petroleum company in Mumbai February 2, 2010.  REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - Indian Oil Corporation and Oil India are not planning to raise their $570 million takeover bid for Gulfsands Petroleum, which the UK-listed explorer rejected as inadequate.


Ahluwalia: must cap food, fuel subsidies (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 08:51 AM PDT

A vendor arranges vegetables at a wholesale market in Siliguri February 28, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - India must raise prices of fuel, fertiliser and food sold under welfare schemes to keep its subsidy bill at targeted levels, the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said on Tuesday.


PM: 9 pct growth likely in 2011/12 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:48 AM PDT

File photo of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, August 31, 2007. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - India's economy will likely grow at 9 percent in the financial year 2011/12, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.


INTERVIEW - BRICs downplay currency issue, look to boost trade (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 02:01 PM PDT

Reuters - The world's four biggest emerging economic powers are unlikely to push for a new global reserve currency but will seek to boost mutual trade and investment at a summit next month, a senior Brazilian diplomat said in an interview.

Breast cancer screens don't save lives - study (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:38 PM PDT

Reuters - Nordic scientists said on Wednesday they had found no evidence that screening women for breast cancer has any effect on death rates, adding to an already fierce international debate about routine testing.

Pakistan comes with specific wishlist for U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:53 PM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan has given a wish list to Washington ahead of high-level meetings, pushing for talks on nuclear cooperation as well as pilotless drones and helicopters, said U.S. and Pakistani officials on Tuesday.

I still admire Tiger, says Nadal (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:51 AM PDT

File photo of Spain's Rafael Nadal in Paris May 29, 2008. Nadal still admires scandal-hit golfer Tiger Woods and believes the media were wrong to publish details of the American world number one's private life. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/FilesReuters - Rafael Nadal still admires scandal-hit golfer Tiger Woods and believes the media were wrong to publish details of the American world number one's private life.


Pfizer, Glaxo sign 10-year vaccine deal for poor (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 09:07 AM PDT

A man stands inside the Belgian headquarters of U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, in Brussels January 23, 2007. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/FilesReuters - Drugmakers Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline signed a landmark 10-year deal on Tuesday to supply 60 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations.


Coca-Cola India unit asked to pay $47 million damages (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:58 AM PDT

File photo of the Coca-Cola logo in Niles, Illinois February 12, 2009. The Indian unit of Coca-Cola Co has been asked to pay $47 million compensation for causing environmental damage at its bottling plant in Kerala, state officials said on Tuesday. REUTERS/John Gress/FilesReuters - The Indian unit of Coca-Cola Co has been asked to pay $47 million compensation for causing environmental damage at its bottling plant in Kerala, state officials said on Tuesday.


Nintendo to launch 3D-capable DS in 2010/11 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:12 AM PDT

An advertising display of Nintendo Co's DS handheld players is seen at a Yamada Denki electronics retail store in Tokyo January 28, 2010. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/FilesReuters - Nintendo Co plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld game console that allows users to play three-dimensional (3D) games without using special glasses, aiming to reinvigorate demand for the five year old machine.


How green is your love life? 'Eco-sex' gets on it (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:50 AM PDT

A couple stands at the embankment of the Volga River in Samara, about 1000 km southeast of Moscow May 18, 2007. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin/FilesReuters - You drive a hybrid, eat organic, and are passionate about recycling. But how green is your love life?


Maoists bomb railway line, derail Rajdhani Express (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:56 AM PDT

Reuters - Seven coaches of one of India's most prestigious passenger trains derailed on Tuesday after Maoists rebels bombed the railway line, police said.

India says must double infrastructure spending (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:14 AM PDT

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gestures during the national communal harmony awards ceremony in New Delhi August 12, 2009.  REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - The finance minister called on Tuesday for a doubling of infrastructure spending to $1 trillion in the five years to 2016/17, and said private sector firms would be allowed to sell special bonds to help pay for it.


Google risks China's ire with slap to censorship (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 01:52 AM PDT

A woman cleans the logo of Google China outside the company headquarters in Beijing January 14, 2010.  REUTERS/Jason Lee/fILESReuters - Google Inc shut its mainland Chinese-language portal and began rerouting searches to its Hong Kong-based site, unleashing a blast of ire from Beijing and prompting concerns over its future business in China.


Are India's rich charitable? Not very, study shows (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Mar 2010 09:34 PM PDT

People reach-out from behind a fence as they wait to collect free clothes from a local charity in Siliguri in this October 5, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - The number of wealthy Indians has been rising fast over the last decade, but they're not ready yet to let go of their hard-earned cash, even for charity, according to a study by business consultancy Bain & Co.


Fin secy: foreign capital flows no concern for now (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:48 AM PDT

An employee of the Korea Exchange Bank counts one-hundred-dollar notes at the bank's headquarters in Seoul October 8, 2009. REUTERS/Choi Bu-Seok/FilesReuters - Foreign capital flows into India and the appreciating rupee were not causing any concern currently for policy makers, the finance secretary said on Tuesday.


Cracks in Great Chinese Firewall, even without Google (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:21 AM PDT

People use computers at an Internet cafe in Kunming, southwest China's Yunnan province March 13, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are out, but in China's vast and bewildering online universe you can freely read the New York Times or visit a favourite porn site.


SBI chief: RBI may further tighten policy (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Mar 2010 05:04 AM PDT

O.P. Bhatt, chairman of State Bank of India, speaks with reporters before a news conference in Kolkata May 2, 2008. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/FilesReuters - The chairman of top lender State Bank of India said on Tuesday the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could further tighten monetary policy if March inflation was uncomfortable, and that liquidity in the system was surplus.


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