2010年11月24日星期三

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Bihar re-elects Nitish Kumar as CM (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 05:16 AM PST

Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar speaks during an interview with Reuters in Patna March 31, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - Nitish Kumar, who spearheaded the development of one of India's poorest states, was re-elected in a landslide as Bihar's chief minister on Wednesday, in a blow to the ruling Congress party mired in a graft scandal.


Sonia Gandhi defends PM, parliament deadlocked (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 03:37 AM PST

Sonia Gandhi talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi May 28, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Congress party chief, Sonia Gandhi, defended Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday over an alleged corruption scandal that has paralysed parliament, quashing speculation that Singh could be forced to resign.


Top banks, financial firm execs held on bribery charges (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 08:07 AM PST

A bank employee counts bundles of currency at a cash counter in Agartala, July 7, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/FilesReuters - Eight top officials from Indian banks and financial firms were arrested on Wednesday on charges of taking bribes to grant corporate loans, dealing another blow to Indian markets hit by a multi-billion dollar telecoms scam.


2010 so far "tied for hottest year" (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:04 PM PST

Boys cool themselves in a fountain at All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow July 16, 2010. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov/FilesReuters - This year is so far tied for the hottest year in a temperature record dating back to 1850 in a new sign of a warming trend, the three major institutes which calculate global warming estimates told Reuters.


Galleon's Rajaratnam loses wiretap suppression bid (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:47 PM PST

Galleon hedge fund partner Raj Rajaratnam (L) is escorted by FBI agents after being taken into custody in New York October 16, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesReuters - In a big victory for federal prosecutors, Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam lost his bid to suppress secretly recorded conversations from his pending criminal trial on insider-trading charges.


Supreme Court defers view on PM role in scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:24 AM PST

A cut out of  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is seen through the flag of  ruling Congress party at the state head office of Congress party in Mumbai October 22, 2009.  REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - The Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed a ruling on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's handling of a telecoms scandal that has undermined confidence in the administration and paralysed parliament.


Big progress seen in landmine ban, worries persist (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 07:15 AM PST

Hoshiyar Ali, a retired major general in the Kurdish peshmerga forces, defuses a landmine at a minefield in Halabja near Sulaimaniya, 260 km northeast of Baghdad, April 27, 2010. REUTERS/Jamal Penjweny/FilesReuters - Major advances in enforcing an international ban on landmines were made in 2009 as casualties fell sharply and Russia reported it was no longer deploying the weapon, campaigners said on Wednesday.


All 29 trapped New Zealand miners dead - police (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 12:46 AM PST

A sign in a Greymouth bank window shows support for 29 miners trapped underground in the Pike River coal mine November 23, 2010. All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion in the Pike River Coal mine, police said on Wednesday.  REUTERS/Tim WimborneReuters - All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion, police said on Wednesday, as the government vowed to investigate the disaster.


Australia's Ponting ready to assume the burden once more (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:17 AM PST

Australia's Captain Ricky Pointing gestures during a practice session ahead of the first test of the Ashes series in Brisbane November 24, 2010. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Ricky Ponting will pull on his baggy green cap for his eighth Ashes series on Thursday, once again assuming the burden of his nation's conviction that Australia should not lose to England. At anything. Ever.


Book Talk: Dance bars show "Bombay Noir" (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 02:49 AM PST

Clouds loom over Mumbai's skyline June 21, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - A television report on Mumbai's dance bars and the controversy over whether they should be banned or not first piqued Sonia Faliero's interest in the vast network of bars in India's financial hub and the women who worked there.


New Afghanistan parliament could be formed in a week - poll body (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Nov 2010 01:26 AM PST

Reuters - A new Afghan parliament could be formed within a week after most of the long-delayed results from a Sept. 18 election were released on Wednesday, an election official said.

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