India food inflation quickens, feeds rate view (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:01 AM PDT Reuters - India's annual food and fuel inflation quickened in the week to April 10, supporting the view that the central bank could move to raise interest rates before its next scheduled quarterly policy review in July. |
Too big to fail? India's IPL cricket in a spin (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:18 AM PDT Reuters - With its cocktail of celebrities and cheerleaders, the Indian Premier League's dizzy rise to become cricket's richest tournament is under threat, illustrating how politics and business don't mix. |
Tornado leaves almost one million homeless in India (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 08:44 AM PDT Reuters - Up to one million people in eastern India are living out in the open after a tornado ripped through impoverished villages, flattening tens of thousands of homes, the United Nations and aid workers said on Thursday. |
Mahindra cuts Logan sedan price to boost sales (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:28 AM PDT Reuters - India's top utility vehicle and tractor maker Mahindra & Mahindra on Thursday slashed prices of its Logan car by 5-12 percent to boost sales of the no-frills sedan. |
Biggest study on cellphone health effects launched (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 09:56 AM PDT Reuters - The biggest study to date into the effects of mobile-phone usage on long-term health was launched on Thursday, aiming to track at least a quarter of a million of people in five European countries for up to 30 years. |
Police arrest "holy man" Nithyananda over sex scandal (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 12:02 AM PDT Reuters - Police have arrested a Hindu holy man with thousands of followers across India and abroad after video footage emerged last month allegedly showing him frolicking with two women. |
Greece downgraded, deficit worse than feared (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - Greece's budget gap last year was worse than feared, the European Union's statistics office revealed on Thursday, as Moody's Investors Service downgraded its rating of Greek government debt. |
Forlan strike gives Atletico edge over Liverpool (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 03:35 PM PDT Reuters - Diego Forlan scrambled an early goal to give Atletico Madrid a deserved 1-0 win over a lethargic-looking Liverpool in the first leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday. |
Goldman CEO watches Obama as clients urged to stay (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 10:14 AM PDT Reuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc intensified its public relations counteroffensive on Thursday over fraud charges, as the company's chief executive watched the U.S. president urge Wall Street to back regulatory reforms. |
Lisa Ray - cancer-free and ready to re-embrace India (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:03 PM PDT Reuters - Ten months after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Canadian actress Lisa Ray says she is cancer free, has enjoyed being bald, and is ready to embrace her second home, India, with new vigour. |
Grenade blasts kill 3, wound 75 in Bangkok (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 11:25 AM PDT Reuters - A series of grenade blasts shook Bangkok's business district on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding 75, heightening tensions during a showdown between troops and anti-government protesters. |
India sits up to specific U.S. terror warning (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 05:01 AM PDT Reuters - Indian police said on Thursday they were taking seriously a specific U.S. warning of possible attacks on New Delhi shopping centres, an alert that underlines challenges for a city hosting the Commonwealth Games in October. |
Landmark Mumbai gay film fest eyes homosexuality debate (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 11:53 PM PDT Reuters - A gay-and-lesbian themed film festival, said to be the biggest of its kind in India, opens on Thursday in an attempt to improve the image of gays in a nation where homosexuality still carries a heavy social stigma. |
Privacy chiefs keep watch over Facebook, social media (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 02:55 AM PDT Reuters - Over the past six years, social networking has been the Internet's stand-out phenomenon, linking up more than one billion people eager to exchange videos, pictures or last-minute birthday wishes. |
India 3G bids doubles from base on 11th auction day (Reuters) Posted: 22 Apr 2010 07:58 AM PDT Reuters - Bids for a nationwide third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences in India doubled above the base price to 69.68 billion rupees ($1.6 billion) on the eleventh day of an auction, government data showed on Thursday. |
Robben spares Ribery blushes for Bayern (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 09:10 PM PDT Reuters - Arjen Robben spared Franck Ribery's blushes with a spectacular strike to lift Bayern Munich to a 1-0 win over Olympique Lyon in their Champions League semi-final first leg on Wednesday. |
Goldman CEO attacks SEC fraud charges - FT (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2010 08:40 PM PDT Reuters - Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein attacked U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission fraud charges against the bank in phone calls to clients, the Financial Times said on Wednesday. |