Humanitarian group blasts draft EU-India trade deal (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT Reuters - Humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Monday criticised draft provisions of a free-trade deal between the European Union and India, saying it would boost prices of drugs for India's poor. |
India, Afghanistan discuss Taliban, regional security (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:15 AM PDT Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Indian leaders on Monday about his efforts to reach out to the Taliban for a negotiated settlement of the nine-year old conflict in his country. |
Cricket mogul Lalit Modi suspended in growing scandal (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:21 AM PDT Reuters - The head of India's $4 billion cricket premier league was removed from his post on Monday after a scandal that has ensnared top politicians and strained the ruling coalition. |
Journalist group demands U.S. probes into Iraq deaths (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:27 PM PDT Reuters - The United States should hold comprehensive, impartial and public inquiries into the deaths of 16 journalists and three media support workers killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, a media lobby group said on Monday. |
RBI chief sees inflation worries (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - Rising prices for food, assets including property, and some wages are all contributing to inflationary pressure that is a worry in India's otherwise good post-crisis economic prospects, Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Monday. |
Competitive pressures hurting India telecoms companies (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 04:40 AM PDT Reuters - Bharti Airtel and its smaller Indian telecoms rivals are set to report that quarterly earnings were hit by a vicious price war that has sent call tariffs tumbling in the world's fastest-growing mobile services market. |
Markets hammer Greek debt, Germany sets tough terms (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 10:22 AM PDT Reuters - Germany said on Monday it could offer aid for Greece within days if it agreed to painful new austerity measures, but rescue jitters pushed the cost of insuring against a Greek debt default to a record high. |
Alonso's thumbs insured for 10 million euros (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:34 AM PDT Reuters - Double world champion Fernando Alonso gave a 10 million euro ($13.33 million) thumbs-up to future Formula One success with Ferrari on Monday. |
Maruti Q4 misses forecast, margins pressured (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:42 AM PDT Reuters - Top automaker Maruti Suzuki missed forecasts for fourth-quarter net profit and warned of margin pressure and slower sales growth this year in the fiercely-competitive compact car market. |
Q+A - Congress-led government may face confidence vote (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 03:25 AM PDT Reuters - The opposition forced parliament to shut briefly on Monday over a report security agencies had tapped telephones of senior MPs, adding pressure on the government a day before a possible confidence vote. |
Protesters block police in deepening Thai crisis (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 09:02 AM PDT Reuters - Protests and blockades in the provinces on Monday, and a grenade attack against a politician, deepened fears of a civil conflict in Thailand after the prime minister rejected demands by anti-government protesters. |
India 3G bids up 139.4 pct from base on 14th auction day (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 08:29 AM PDT Reuters - Bids for a nationwide third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences in India rose 139.4 percent above the base price to 83.8 billion rupees ($1.9 billion) on the fourteenth day of an auction, government data showed on Monday. |
Cutting AIDS funds risks "death sentence" - report (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 05:41 AM PDT Reuters - A global pullback from AIDS funding may mean HIV could again become a death sentence for people in the developing world, according to a report released on Monday. |
India long way off from 20-km per day road (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:01 AM PDT Reuters - India is likely to build only 12-13 kilometres of road a day in the current fiscal year to end-March 2011 against a 20 km per day target, Transport Minister Kamal Nath said on Monday. |
NEWSMAKER - IPL chief Lalit Modi bowled out (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 01:27 AM PDT Reuters - Lalit Modi, former chief of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, has often courted controversy, whether as a businessman who invented "cricketainment" or as a child who ran away from school. |
FEATURE - Climate debate gets ugly as world moves to curb CO2 (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:14 PM PDT Reuters - Murderer, liar, fraud, traitor. |
China gains clout in World Bank vote shift (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 08:17 PM PDT Reuters - China overtook large European nations in a shift in voting power at the World Bank on Sunday that was designed to give emerging economies greater influence in the global development institution. |
Inflation expectations may ease further on monsoon forecast - RBI (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 10:40 PM PDT Reuters - The monsoon forecast may help bring down inflationary expectations further, K.C. Chakrabarty, one of the deputy governors at the Reserve Bank of India, said on Monday. |
Banks need not raise rates now - IBA chief (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:13 PM PDT Reuters - There is no need for banks to raise rates at this point as there is abundant liquidity in the system and credit is expected to be slightly low in the first six months of the year, M.V. Nair, chairman of the Indian Banking Association, said on Monday. |
Maruti Suzuki Q4 more than doubles, lags forecast (Reuters) Posted: 26 Apr 2010 02:16 AM PDT Reuters - Maruti Suzuki, the country's top carmaker, said its fourth-quarter net profit more than doubled on strong sales, but missed forecasts as tough competition, higher raw material prices and costs associated with migrating to new emission norms and new launches hit margins. |