Sri Lanka sink India with last-ball six (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - India were knocked out of the Twenty20 World Cup when a last-ball six from Sri Lanka's Chamara Kapugedera condemned them to their third straight defeat in the Super Eight stage on Tuesday. |
Conservative Cameron takes over as British PM (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 02:51 PM PDT Reuters - David Cameron led Britain's centre-right Conservative Party back to power after 13 years on Tuesday, but the new prime minister still needed to finalise a coalition with the smaller Liberal Democrat Party to govern. |
Power sector helps drive jump in CO2 emissions in India (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 06:20 AM PDT Reuters - India's greenhouse gas emissions grew 58 percent between 1994 and 2007, official figures released on Tuesday showed, helped up by a largely coal-reliant power sector that nearly doubled its share in emissions. |
Somalis hijack Bulgarian ship bound for India (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 12:37 PM PDT Reuters - Somali pirates hijacked a Bulgarian-flagged ship MV Panega in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday as it headed to India, the European Union's naval force said. |
Bids for one all-India 3G licence reach $3.1 bln (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 09:06 AM PDT Reuters - Bids for one set of nationwide third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences in India reached 140.26 billion rupees ($3.1 billion) on the 27th day of an auction, a spokesman for Department of Telecommunications said on Tuesday. |
Govt must protect farmers from cheap imports - Sharad Pawar (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - The government, which allows tax-free imports of wheat and sugar, must protect its farmers from cheap overseas purchases as global prices tumble, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said on Tuesday. |
Chile nabs Pakistani with trace explosive at U.S. embassy (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 02:09 PM PDT Reuters - A Chilean judge ordered a Pakistani man be held under an anti-terrorism law on Tuesday after he was arrested in the U.S. embassy in Chile with traces of explosive on him. |
FBI sought secrecy in Shahzad pursuit - source (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 10:10 AM PDT Reuters - The FBI asked the Department of Homeland Security to limit urgent alerts to airlines about the suspected Times Square bomber to avoid more media leaks and risks of tipping him off, an Obama administration official said on Tuesday. |
S.M. Krishna to visit Pakistan for talks (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 02:27 AM PDT Reuters - Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna said on Tuesday he will visit Islamabad on July 15 for talks on restarting stalled peace negotiations, raising hopes of an improvement in ties between the nuclear-armed rival countries. |
INTERVIEW - Bharti Airtel sees recovery in usage, consolidation in India (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 06:53 AM PDT Reuters - Mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel, the top carrier in the world's fastest-growing wireless market, expects to see a recovery in usage per user and stabilising call charges, the company's South Asia chief said on Tuesday. |
Ronaldinho, Adriano out of Brazil Cup squad (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 11:47 AM PDT Reuters - Forward Adriano and former World Player of the Year Ronaldinho were left out of Brazil's World Cup squad on Tuesday as coach Dunga opted for a safety-first approach. |
Q+A: What does the Ambani verdict mean for energy in India? (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 04:27 AM PDT Reuters - The Supreme Court's Friday ruling in the dispute between the feuding Ambani brothers resolved a key uncertainty surrounding gas policy by affirming the government's right to set its price. |
Bharti Airtel wants unrestricted telecom gear imports - CEO (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 09:30 AM PDT Reuters - Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile operator, wants unrestricted import of telecoms equipment to India and is talking to the government on the issue, its South Asia chief said on Tuesday. |
Germany backs euro package as market rally fades (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 08:19 AM PDT Reuters - Germany's cabinet approved the biggest national contribution to a $1 trillion emergency package intended to stabilise the euro, as global markets sobered up after Monday's euphoric rally. |
Memo to boss: 11-hour days are bad for the heart (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 07:01 AM PDT Reuters - People working 10 or 11 hours a day are more likely to suffer serious heart problems, including heart attacks, than those clocking off after seven hours, researchers said on Tuesday. |
Myanmar's Suu Kyi appeals sentence again (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 04:27 AM PDT Reuters - Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi has lodged an appeal with Myanmar's top court, seeking to overturn a guilty verdict for her breach of a draconian security law last year, her lawyer said on Tuesday. |
Carrefour to open 4-5 stores in India by end-2010 - sources (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 04:44 AM PDT Reuters - Carrefour, the world's second largest retailer, has secured four properties in four cities across India and plans to set up 4 to 5 cash-and-carry stores by the end of 2010, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. |
TRAI for lifting curbs on telecoms M&As (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 05:30 AM PDT Reuters - The telecoms regulator on Tuesday recommended ending restrictions on companies selling out, a move that will help paving the way for consolidation in the world's fastest growing mobile services market. |
India's neglected tribes gain voice in mobile news service (Reuters) Posted: 11 May 2010 12:12 AM PDT Reuters - A new initiative promoting citizen journalism through mobile phones in central India's remote forests is giving a voice to poor and marginalised tribes, whose plight has long been overlooked by the state and media. |