2010年5月6日星期四

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Kasab sentenced to death for Mumbai attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:05 AM PDT

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving suspected gunman in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, is under police custody at an undisclosed location in this undated video grab from footage shown on CNN IBN television channel February 3, 2009. REUTERS/CNN IBN/Handout/FilesReuters - A special court sentenced Pakistani citizen Mohammad Ajmal Kasab to death on Thursday over a three-day rampage through Mumbai in 2008 that killed 166 people and strained ties between India and Pakistan.


U.S. stock plunge raises alarm on algo trading (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:51 PM PDT

The sign of the New York Stock Exchange is seen on a door June 23, 2009. A spine-chilling slide of nearly 1,000 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its biggest intraday points drop ever, led to heightened calls for a crackdown on computer-driven high-frequency trading.  REUTERS/Eric Thayer/FilesReuters - A spine-chilling slide of nearly 1,000 points in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, its biggest intraday points drop ever, led to heightened calls for a crackdown on computer-driven high-frequency trading.


Global stock, bond sales derailed by market woes (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:15 PM PDT

Phones hang from a trading terminal on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, May 19, 2009. Conglomerate Swire Pacific scrapped a $2.7 billion Hong Kong IPO by its property unit on Thursday, the biggest Asian casualty so far of the damage to capital markets wrought by Greece's economic crisis. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/FilesReuters - Initial public offerings around the world are being cancelled as fear over Greece's deepening debt crisis and a sudden drop in U.S. stocks on Thursday rattled markets.


Debt fears spark rout in stocks, euro tumbles (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:12 PM PDT

A man is reflected on a stock market board at a business district in Tokyo December 30, 2009. World shares tumbled and the euro extended its slump on Thursday in what is shaping up to be a major flight to safety on fears of contagion from the Greek debt crisis. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/FilesReuters - U.S. stocks plunged as much as 9 percent on Thursday as a wave of selling triggered by Europe's debt crisis turned into a stampede, pushing the euro to an almost 14 month-low and gold close to record highs.


FEATURE - In rapidly modernising India, caste fatally lurks (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:25 PM PDT

Villagers sit after attending a panchayat in Haryana May 13, 2008. Behind India's modernisation and growing cosmopolitanism, driven by accelerating economic growth, caste is a constant presence, playing roles as diverse as determining governments to denying some access to common facilities like water and schools. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur/FilesReuters - Nirupama Pathak was young, educated and wanted to marry her boyfriend. But in India, where caste determines most things, police suspect the pregnant journalist was murdered by her mother in an "honour killing".


Match fixing common in ICL, says former Pakistan captain (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 07:11 AM PDT

Rashid Latif speaks to reporters in Karachi in this August 17, 2003 file photo. REUTERS/Zahid Hussein/FilesReuters - Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has been told that "a large number" of matches in the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) were fixed.


Oil from Gulf spill creeps ashore in Louisiana (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:23 PM PDT

A sign at a store reads Reuters - Oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico sloshed ashore on a chain of islands off the Louisiana coast on Thursday as the Obama administration accused BP Plc and its partners of making "very major mistakes" in the ill-fated drilling operation.


Supreme Court to rule in Ambani gas row (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:25 PM PDT

File photo of Mukesh Ambani (R) and his brother Anil Ambani in Mumbai June 24, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - The Supreme Court will on Friday issue a ruling in a gas-pricing dispute between the billionaire Ambani brothers that has rattled investors and raised concerns over the influence of powerful businesses on government policy.


U.S. seeks Pakistan ties to talkative bomb suspect (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 04:02 PM PDT

Nazirullah, a resident, shows the media a newspaper that had published a picture of Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani-American held in New York on suspicion of driving a bomb-laden car into Times Square, outside the ancestral home of Shahzad's family in Mohib Banda, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa province, May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Faisal MahmoodReuters - The United States pushed Pakistan on Thursday to investigate possible ties between the Times Square bomb suspect and the Taliban, U.S. officials said, as the suspect provided more information to U.S. investigators.


Savitri Jindal on world's richest mothers list (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 03:43 AM PDT

An employee of the Korea Exchange Bank counts one hundred dollar notes at the bank's headquarters in Seoul in this November 2, 2009 file photo. Having children isn't a barrier to making a billion dollars as eight women on a new list of the world's richest mothers showed. REUTERS/Choi Bu-Seok/FilesReuters - Having children isn't a barrier to making a billion dollars as eight women on a new list of the world's richest mothers showed.


FY10 exports fall; targets 15 pct export growth (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 09:39 AM PDT

Workers sit in front of containers at the port in Mumbai September 6, 2007. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - India's exports dropped 4.7 percent in the fiscal year 2009/10 as the global slowdown sapped demand, but Asia's third-largest economy is targetting close to 15 percent export growth this year, officials said on Thursday.


Greece backs austerity plan but euro, U.S. stocks fall (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:16 PM PDT

Demonstrators and riot police face off  in front of the Greek parliament in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece, May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Pascal RossignolReuters - The Greek parliament backed an austerity plan on Thursday despite violent unrest, as European Central Bank inaction on the nation's debt crisis helped to trigger major falls in the euro and on Wall Street.


Drug maker debut lands China's new richest man (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 10:02 AM PDT

Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical Co Chairman and founder Li Li listens to a question during an interview in Shenzhen, Guangdong province May 6, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A pharmaceutical researcher once spurned by big state-owned firms became China's richest man on Thursday after shares in a drug maker partly owned by Goldman Sachs were listed in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen.


HP India to challenge tax claims (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 10:23 AM PDT

A logo of HP is seen outside Hewlett-Packard Belgian headquarters in Diegem, near Brussels, January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Thierry Roge/FilesReuters - Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest technology company by revenue, said it would challenge and refute tax claims made on it by Indian tax authorities.


Fuel prices stay high, keep pressure on rates (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 01:01 AM PDT

A vendor arranges vegetables at a wholesale market in Siliguri February 28, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - The food inflation continued to ease in April, but fuel inflation was steady at its high level, keeping up pressure on headline inflation that could prompt further monetary tightening by the central bank.


Pakistani villagers condemn Mumbai trial sentence (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 08:08 AM PDT

Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving member of the 10-man group which attacked several Mumbai landmarks, is seen at an undisclosed location under police custody in this undated video grab shown by CNN IBN Television channel. REUTERS/CNN IBN/Handout/FilesReuters - Residents of the home village of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, sentenced to death by a court for the 2008 Mumbai assault, condemned his conviction on Thursday, saying it was the result of a conspiracy against Pakistan.


Britain votes in cliff-hanger election (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:21 AM PDT

The door of the British prime minister's residence of 10 Downing Street is seen in London May 5, 2010. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - Britons voted on Thursday in a knife-edge election, with opinion polls suggesting the opposition Conservatives will win the popular vote but fail to secure an outright parliamentary majority.


Bids for one all-India 3G licence reach $2.5 bln (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 06:45 AM PDT

The sun rises behind a communications tower in New Delhi March 20, 2006. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Bids for one set of nationwide third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences reached 113.27 billion rupees ($2.5 billion) on the 23rd day of an auction, government data showed on Thursday.


Aggressive 3G bids put more pressure on telcos (Reuters)

Posted: 06 May 2010 05:29 AM PDT

Birds sit atop telecommunication towers in Hyderabad May 25, 2009. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder/FilesReuters - Aggressive bidding for 3G mobile spectrum in India, with the cost of one nationwide licence hitting $2.5 billion, puts further pressure on Indian carriers in a cutthroat market to make the most out of the new services.


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