2010年4月9日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Reliance to pay Atlas $1.7 bln for Marcellus stake (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, speaks during a news conference in Mumbai in this September 21, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - Indian energy giant Reliance Industries will pay $1.7 billion to form a joint venture at one of the most promising natural gas deposit regions in the U.S. with Atlas Energy, becoming the latest foreign company to invest in shale plays that are expected to be very lucrative.


Tiger on the tail of clubhouse leader Poulter (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:11 PM PDT

Tiger Woods of the U.S. hits his tee shot on the fourth hole during first round play in the 2010 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 8, 2010. REUTERS/Brian SnyderReuters - Tiger Woods birdied the two par-five holes on Augusta National's back nine to surge into a familiar position high up the leaderboard in the U.S. Masters second round on Friday.


BJP supports opening pension, insurance sector (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:31 AM PDT

Nitin Gadkari, president of India's main opposition Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), speaks during an interview with Reuters at his party office in New Delhi April 9, 2010. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party will not block government plans to open the insurance and pension sectors to foreign investments if it helps the people, but opposes a nuclear liability bill, its leader Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.


Chidambaram offers to resign over Maoist attack (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:24 AM PDT

Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram (R) and Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh (L) stand besides a policeman, who was wounded in a Maoist attack, at a hospital in Raipur April 7, 2010. REUTERS/Rupesh YadavReuters - Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram offered to resign after Maoist insurgents killed 76 police this week, officials said on Friday, as New Delhi mobilised more security forces to flush out the rebels from their forest bases.


3G spectrum auction starts, may take weeks (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:21 AM PDT

Birds sit atop telecommunication towers in Hyderabad in this May 25, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder/FilesReuters - India kicked off an eagerly awaited multi-billion dollar spectrum auction on Friday that would help telecom firms in the world's fastest-growing wireless market offer premium third-generation (3G) services.


A Minute With: Prakash Jha on "Rajneeti" (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT

Handout picture of Prakash Jha. REUTERS/HandoutReuters - Politics and Prakash Jha are a good match. In his films, the award-winning writer-director has often explored the dark underbelly of India's regional politics.


Sri Lanka ruling alliance wins parliamentary majority (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:05 AM PDT

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa smiles to his supporters at a polling station after casting his vote for the parliamentary elections, in the southern district of Hambantota, about 238 km (148 miles) south of capital Colombo, April 8, 2010. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawawtteReuters - Sri Lankan President Mahinda's Rajapaksa's ruling coalition on Friday secured a parliamentary majority, election results showed, in his third big win since declaring victory over the Tamil Tigers last year.


INTERVIEW - Nokia plans launch of music service in India (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:58 AM PDT

A woman uses her mobile telephone as she passes a Nokia advert  in London in this July 20, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/FilesReuters - Nokia Corp said on Friday it is planning a launch soon for its music downloading service in India following a China launch, as it looks to emerging markets to breathe new life into the struggling service.


Vehicle sales seen at record high for 2nd yr (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:08 AM PDT

Vehicles are seen at a parking lot in New Delhi in this February 9, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - Indian vehicles sales are expected to reach a record high for the second year in a row in 2010/11, as rising incomes in a rapidly growing economy boosts demand.


Radioactive scrap injures four in Delhi (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:25 AM PDT

Reuters - Four people were hospitalised with severe burns after they were accidentally exposed to radioactive scrap in the Indian capital, police officials said on Friday.

India to open 100 Kashmir peaks to foreign climbers (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:07 AM PDT

Trainee skiers line up during a practice session in Gulmarg, 55km (34 miles) west of Srinagar in this January 30, 2008 file photo. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli/FilesReuters - Mountaineers, rejoice: India will, for the first time, allow foreign climbers to scale more than 100 high-altitude peaks this summer in the Himalayan state of Kashmir.


Jet Airways sees fares rise 10-15 pct (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:41 AM PDT

Passengers are seen at the Jet Airways ticketing counters at the domestic airport terminal in Mumbai in this September 9, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - Jet Airways expects average fares to rise by 10-15 percent in April-June over the previous quarter, an official told reporters on Friday.


BSE Sensex up 1.2 pct; ninth straight weekly gain (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:16 AM PDT

The Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) building is seen in Mumbai May 22, 2006. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - The BSE Sensex logged its ninth straight weekly gain, its second longest weekly winning streak in nearly a year, to close 1.2 percent higher on Friday supported by earnings optimism and firm world equities.


Films poke fun at Jews, Muslims, suicide bombers (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:26 AM PDT

British actor Omid Djalili (C) poses with writer David Baddiel (L) and U.S. actor Richard Schiff at the world premiere of the film Reuters - Nothing, it seems, is off limits to British comedy, with two films hitting theatres in the next month that poke fun at Muslims, Jews and, perhaps most controversially, suicide bombers.


Adviser sees inflation easing in two months (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:41 AM PDT

A file photo of India's Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia as he speaks during a national conference in New Delhi August 18, 2009.  REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Inflationary pressures in India's economy will ease in a couple of months, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the planning commission, said on Friday.


Sri Lanka ruling alliance takes lead in polls (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:08 AM PDT

Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters stand in line to vote at a polling station in Vavuniya, 254 km (158 miles) north of Colombo April 8, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Sri Lanka's ruling alliance was confident of a sweeping victory on Friday in a parliamentary election, but said it may miss the two-thirds majority it needs to amend the constitution.


IT firms to report rise in demand; eye on rupee (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:34 AM PDT

Indian employees at a call centre provide service support to international customers, in Bangalore March 17, 2004. REUTERS/Sherwin Crasto  SC/PBReuters - A pick-up in global technology spending in 2010 will bolster the toplines of Indian outsourcers that get most of their revenue from exports, but a strengthening rupee and rising wages pose risks to profit margins.


Hillary's ashes won't be scattered on Mount Everest (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:57 AM PDT

Nepal's Tourism Minister Sharad Sing Bhandari (L) talks to Apa Sherpa during a news conference in Kathmandu April 1, 2010. REUTERS/Deepa ShresthaReuters - The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, will be kept at a memorial near the mountain and will not be scattered on the peak as he had desired, a sherpa official said on Friday.


ASEAN urges Myanmar to hold fair election (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:19 AM PDT

Filipino activists stage a die-in while chanting slogans as they display a poster of Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a rally by the Free Burma Coalition group outside the Myanmar embassy in Manila's Makati financial district March 19, 2010.  REUTERS/Erik de CastroReuters - Southeast Asian leaders urged Myanmar to hold fair and inclusive elections, and pledged to work together to sustain recovery from the global financial crisis as they wound up their summit on Friday.


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