2010年4月26日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Humanitarian group blasts draft EU-India trade deal (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2010 07:54 AM PDT

Patients with their eyes bandaged sit after their cataract surgeries at a hospital of the Aravind Eye Care System in Madurai, in Tamil Nadu state March 3, 2010.  REUTERS/Reinhard Krause/FilesReuters - 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

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) shakes hands with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai before they gave statements to the media in New Delhi April 26, 2010. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - 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

Burning photographs of Lalit Modi, chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL), the world's richest cricket tournament, are seen during a protest in Ahmedabad April 24, 2010. The protesters were demanding for Modi's resignation, a protester said.  Modi has been suspended for his possible role in alleged corruption. REUTERS/Amit Dave/FilesReuters - 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

This image captured from a classified U.S. military video footage shows Iraqis being shot from an U.S. Apache helicopters that killed a dozen people in Baghdad, including two Reuters news staff on July 12, 2007, and released to Reuters on April 5, 2010 by WikiLeaks. REUTERS/WikiLeaks/Handout/FilesReuters - 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

Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao speaks during a meeting at the head office in Mumbai January 29, 2010. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - 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

A boy rides his bicycle past an advertisement of Bharti Airtel in Kochi March 31, 2010. REUTERS/Sivaram V/FilesReuters - 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

Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou looks up during a news conference at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank Spring Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington, April 25, 2010.    REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - 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

McLaren Mercedes Formula One driver Fernando Alonso of Spain gives the thumb up after taking the first place in the qualifying session of Monaco's F1 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo May 26, 2007. REUTERS/Robert Pratta/FilesReuters - 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

A rickshaw-puller paddles in front of a billboard for the WagonR, a car manufactured by Maruti Suzuki, in Chennai August 6, 2007. REUTERS/Babu/FilesReuters - 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

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 in this October 22, 2009 file photo.  REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - 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

Army soldiers observe the situation as anti-government 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

A vendor talks on the mobile phone in a vegetable wholesale market in New Delhi April 9, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - 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

A social activist displays an anti-AIDS symbol on his face during an awareness campaign in Chandigarh February 14, 2010. REUTERS/Ajay Verma/FilesReuters - 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

Labourers work on an overhead road flyover construction site amid heavy fog in New Delhi January 8, 2010. India is likely to build 12-13 kilometres of roads a day in the current fiscal year to end-March 2011, Transport Minister Kamal Nath said on Monday. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - 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

Lalit Modi during a news conference at the Global Sport Summit in London October 24, 2008. Lalit Modi, former chief of the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, has often courted controversy, whether as a businessman who invented 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

A deer walks on the mangroves of the Sunderbans tiger reserve February 21, 2007. Climate scientists, used to dealing with sceptics, are under siege like never before, targeted by hate emails brimming with abuse and accusations of fabricating global warming data. Some emails contain thinly veiled death threats. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/FilesReuters - 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

A man walks past the entrance of RBI headquarters in Mumbai January 27, 2009. 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. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - 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

A cashier counts currency notes inside a bank in  Hyderabad March 22, 2010. 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. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder/FilesReuters - 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

Workers assemble a car at a Maruti Suzuki plant in Manesar in Haryana, March 23, 2010. Maruti Suzuki, the country's top carmaker, said its fourth-quarter net profit more than doubled, but missed forecasts as tough competition in the booming market and rising raw material costs cut hit margins. REUTERS/Danish Ismail/FilesReuters - 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.


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