India starts scaling down security in Kashmir (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 07:50 AM PDT Reuters - Authorities in Srinagar began removing some security bunkers on Tuesday as part of New Delhi's efforts to defuse tensions in the troubled region. |
Linguists discover new language in Arunachal Pradesh (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:15 PM PDT Reuters - Researchers looking for dying languages said on Tuesday they discovered a language previously unknown to science and spoken by just 800 people in northeastern India. |
Halsall overcomes 'Delhi Belly' to rule in the pool (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 08:09 AM PDT Reuters - Swimmer Fran Halsall ignored a dose of 'Delhi Belly' to win a shock women's 50 metre butterfly gold and kick-start England's Commonwealth Games Ashes battle with rivals Australia on Tuesday. |
Laxman stands firm to earn India thrilling win (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 04:12 AM PDT Reuters - Vangipurappu Laxman revived his role as Australia's chief tormentor with a magnificent unbeaten 73 to script India's unlikely one-wicket victory on the final afternoon of the first test on Tuesday. |
Indian gold rush but problems persist (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 10:19 AM PDT Reuters - India flexed its sporting muscles to shoot up the medals table with five golds at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday but organisational niggles continued to bedevil the event on the second day of competition. |
Reliance, Chesapeake end Eagle Ford JV talks - sources (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:56 PM PDT Reuters - Indian energy company Reliance Industries and Chesapeake Energy Inc have ended talks over the sale of a stake in the U.S. company's position in the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas, according to sources familiar with the matter. |
Nippon Steel, Tata Steel in talks to build plant-Nikkei (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:05 PM PDT Reuters - Nippon Steel Corp said Tuesday it has begun talks with Tata Steel Ltd to build a steel plant, including a blast furnace, in India while unveiling plans to build an automotive steel plant in Mexico, the Nikkei business daily said. |
Duo wins 2010 physics Nobel for super-thin carbon (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 07:42 AM PDT Reuters - Two Russian-born scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how carbon just one atom thick behaved, a discovery with profound implications from quantum physics to consumer electronics. |
Delhi Games vie with Mohali cricket test for eyeballs (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 08:01 AM PDT Reuters - Marksmen Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang will have to jostle for Wednesday's headlines with cricketer Vangipurappu Laxman despite winning India's first gold medal in the Delhi Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. |
Defiant Times Square bomber gets life in prison (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 01:13 PM PDT Reuters - A smirking Pakistani-born U.S. citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York's busy Times Square was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison after he defiantly said more attacks on America were imminent. |
Gambhir and Sharma to miss second test through injury (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 07:42 AM PDT Reuters - Opener Gautam Gambhir and paceman Ishant Sharma will miss the second test against Australia because of knee injuries, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary N. Srinivasan said on Tuesday. |
Q+A - Why is foreign direct investment into India declining? (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:42 AM PDT Reuters - Foreign direct investment in India fell by nearly a quarter in the first seven months of 2010 and the much-publicised chaos around preparations for the Commonwealth Games has added to worries foreign firms could put off further investment. |
Microsoft CEO says will see Windows slates by Christmas (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:00 AM PDT Reuters - A Microsoft slate to counter Apple's popular iPad tablet computer will be seen by the Christmas holiday, Microsoft's Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Tuesday. |
Pakistan trio hearings to be held in Qatar - source (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:55 AM PDT Reuters - The International Cricket Council will hold appeal hearings for suspended Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif in Qatar on Oct. 30 and Oct. 31, a source close to the trio told Reuters. |
Australia rest Ponting, Clarke to lead in ODI series (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 06:55 AM PDT Reuters - Michael Clarke will lead a largely inexperienced Australian side in one-day series against India after regular skipper Ricky Ponting was rested as part of the team's World Cup and Ashes plans. |
Delhi struggles with insect plague but rats stay away (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 02:48 AM PDT Reuters - Athletes at the Commonwealth Games are battling a plague of Delhi bugs as much as opponents with organisers forced to blanket venues with a pungent insecticide after an influx of insects. |
Indian lifters blame missing supplements on gold failure (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:21 AM PDT Reuters - India's failure to lift an expected weightlifting gold on the first day of the Commonwealth Games can be blamed on government delays in supplying nutritional supplements, coach Harnam Singh told Reuters. |
Everything will be alright tomorrow - Games organisers (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 03:22 AM PDT Reuters - Delhi Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi brushed aside a string of problems with transport, a lack of spectators, food and security delays on Tuesday, saying everything would be resolved within 24 hours. |
Damudamu gets pass to bring Fijian rugby flair to Delhi (Reuters) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 05:06 AM PDT Reuters - Fijian rugby flair will be on show at the Delhi Games next week despite the island's suspension from the Commonwealth after Isoa Damudamu won a race against time to secure British citizenship. |
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