2010年8月11日星期三

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Business cost to rise as India tweaks nuclear bill (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:08 AM PDT

A boy arranges Indian national flags for sale at a roadside shop in Siliguri January 24, 2009. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - India is rewriting a bill that will allow global firms to access its $150 billion nuclear power market, suggesting stiffer compensation for industrial accidents and extending liability to cover private suppliers.


Death toll in Ladakh floods hits 170, hundreds still missing (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:19 AM PDT

A medic attends to an injured boy at a hospital in Leh, August 11, 2010. REUTERS/Mukesh GuptaReuters - Flash floods and landslides in Ladakh have killed 170 people, and the death toll is likely to climb further with hundreds of people still missing and several villages cut off five days after the disaster, aid workers and police said.


Tamil migrant ship heading for Canada - reports (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:13 PM PDT

Reuters - A cargo ship believed carrying as many as 200 Tamil migrants attempting to reach Canada from Sri Lanka has been located off the Pacific Coast, Canadian media reported on Wednesday.

Scientists find new superbug spreading from India (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:36 PM PDT

Doctors perform cosmetic surgery inside a hospital operation theater in Mumbai May 9, 2008. People who embark on Reuters - A new superbug from India could spread around the world -- in part because of medical tourism -- and scientists say there are almost no drugs to treat it.


India steps up demands for BlackBerry access (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:06 PM PDT

A Blackberry mobile device, made by Research in Motion (RIM), is seen on a shelf in Toronto, July 13, 2010.   REUTERS/Mark Blinch/FilesReuters - Indias demands are giving a new headache to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion after the government threatened a shutdown that could affect one million of the smartphone's 41 million users.


Tata Tele denies DoCoMo investment report (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 10:45 AM PDT

A woman walks past a NTT DoCoMo shop in Tokyo April 28, 2010. REUTERS/Issei Kato/FilesReuters - India's Tata Teleservices denied a media report that Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc would likely invest an additional $1 billion in the Indian firm.


Reliance plans to restart fuel stations (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 06:45 AM PDT

A watchman of Reliance's closed petrol station walks at Raipur Kalan village in Punjab May 7, 2010. Reliance Industries plans to reopen all of its fuel stations in the country and is currently selling petrol and diesel at the same rates as state firms, a company statement said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Ajay Verma/FilesReuters - India's Reliance Industries plans to reopen all of its fuel stations in the country and is currently selling petrol and diesel at the same rates as state firms, a company statement said on Wednesday.


Separatist anger rages under curfew in Kashmir (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 12:42 AM PDT

Policemen sit beside anti-India graffiti during a curfew in Srinagar August 9, 2010. The iron-fisted response to one of the biggest rebellions against Indian rule in two decades has sparked debate whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has any idea about how to resolve disputed Kashmir. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause/FilesReuters - In the world's largest democracy, it is curfew time.


Sri Lanka launches war crimes panel, rejects U.N. probe (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 06:20 AM PDT

Former Attorney General C.R. de Silva (C, at the table), head of the Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation, listens as V. Nallaiyanaygam (bottom), a Tamil expatriate professional, speaks during the commission's first session in Colombo August 11, 2010. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawattesReuters - Sri Lanka vowed on Wednesday to investigate the conduct of the war against Tamil separatists, but critics dismissed the inquiry as a whitewash after authorities rejected an international probe into possible war crimes.


Scientists use salmonella bug to kill cancer cells (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 11:32 AM PDT

Reuters - Treating tumours with salmonella bacteria can induce an immune response that kills cancer cells, scientists have found -- a discovery that may help them create tumour-killing immune cells to inject into patients.

RBI plans limited new bank licences (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:00 AM PDT

A man walks past the entrance of RBI headquarters in Mumbai January 27, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday said it intends to grant a limited number of new bank licences, a move that was earlier flagged by the government to expand the geographic reach of the sector.


Indian lifters face Games doubt over unpaid fine (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:00 AM PDT

Labourers work outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the weightlifting venue of the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi August 5, 2010. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - Indian weightlifters remain unsure of their participation at the Delhi Commonwealth Games in October as the country's federation struggles to cover an unpaid fine for repeated doping offences.


Bharti signals worst is over for Indian telecoms (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 04:44 AM PDT

A rickshaw driver talks on his mobile phone as he rides past a billboard outside a railway station in Chandigarh May 26, 2009. REUTERS/Ajay Verma/FilesReuters - Bharti Airtel signalled a bottom for the struggling cellular market as cut-rate pricing shows signs of stabilising and market focus shifts to profit margins for India's top mobile operator.


INTERVIEW - Inflation to fall; easing pressure on RBI (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 10:02 PM PDT

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia in New Delhi March 27, 2009. The headline inflation should ease faster than expected by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as past actions take effect and this will reduce the pressure to further tighten monetary policy, a top government adviser said. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur/FilesReuters - The headline inflation should ease faster than expected by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), as past actions take effect, and this will reduce the pressure to further tighten monetary policy, a top government adviser said.


Govt to resolve POSCO plant environment issues - minister (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:00 AM PDT

An employee of steelmaker POSCO walks at the company's headquarters in Seoul April 10, 2009. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/FilesReuters - Environmental concerns over a $12-billion steel plant in India planned by South Korea's POSCO, will be resolved soon, Steel Minister Virbhadra Singh said on Wednesday.


Bharti Airtel margins on watch as price war ebbs (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Aug 2010 11:36 PM PDT

A boy rides his bicycle past an advertisement of Bharti Airtel in Kochi March 31, 2010. REUTERS/Sivaram V/FilesReuters - The focus for Bharti Airtel will be to maintain profit margins as a vicious price war recedes, after India's top telecoms firm reported quarterly profit fell by a third.


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