2010年8月27日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Indian medal hopes dashed as Nehwal falls (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 10:34 AM PDT

India's Saina Nehwal reacts after being defeated by China's Wang Shixian during their women's single quarter final match at the 2010 Badminton World Championships at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, August 27, 2010.  REUTERS/Regis DuvignauReuters - Indian hopes of a medal at the world badminton championships were finally snuffed out on Friday when world number two Saina Nehwal bowed out in the women's singles quarter-finals.


No change seen in Pakistan's view of India threat (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 07:26 AM PDT

An army helicopter flies past a portrait of Father of the nation Mohammad Ali Jinnah during the Pakistan National Day parade in Islamabad March 23, 2007. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed/FilesReuters - The Pakistan army is unlikely to change its assessment of the threat from India despite heavy demands on its troops to provide flood relief while also fighting Islamist militants, a senior security official said.


Kashmir visa row stokes India, China tensions (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:54 AM PDT

A file photo shows Chinese paramilitary policemen walk past an Indian flag in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing January 13, 2008. REUTERS/Grace Liang/FilesReuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India summoned China's ambassador on Friday to protest against the refusal of a visa to an Indian general from the disputed Kashmir region, the latest spat between two Asian giants jostling for global influence and resources.


A Minute With: Shah Rukh Khan gets up close and personal (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:44 AM PDT

Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan (L) and his wife Gauri pose for a picture after a news conference in Mumbai August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiReuters - One of India's most popular superstars, Shah Rukh Khan, is known for guarding his personal life fiercely from the media glare.


Q+A - Proposed direct tax code (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 04:23 AM PDT

Reuters - The cabinet approved a new direct tax code on Thursday that will replace archaic income and wealth tax laws in the country, a key reform initiative that is aimed at widening the tax net and increasing federal revenues.

India may extend deadline on BlackBerry security row (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 07:45 AM PDT

A woman walks past a Blackberry advertisement billboard in Mumbai August 17, 2010. India may extend an Aug. 31 deadline if Research In Motion asks for more time for a solution to let security agencies intercept BlackBerry's encrypted services, a senior government source said on Friday. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - India may extend an Aug. 31 deadline in its standoff with Research In Motion over access to Blackberry data, if the Canadian firm says it has a solution and asks for time, a government source said on Friday.


Pakistanis stream out of town as flood spreads (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:24 AM PDT

Local residents use a rudimentary ferry service, made of tyre inner tubes and bamboo bound together, to cross the Swat River at Kanju in Pakistan's Swat Valley August 26, 2010, after the worst floods in decades destroyed local bridges. REUTERS/Tim WimborneReuters - Thousands of people fled on Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks and authorities ordered an evacuation.


Australia must tighten mining, racism laws - U.N. (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:53 AM PDT

A boat carrying suspected illegal immigrants is photographed from a Border Protection Command aircraft in Australian waters in this handout photo taken September 12, 2009.  REUTERS/Australian Customs and Border Protection Service/Handout/FilesReuters - Australia must tighten rules governing the behaviour of its companies, especially mining firms, towards indigenous people at home and abroad, a United Nations human rights body said on Friday.


Saina Nehwal exits world championship (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 09:51 AM PDT

India's Saina Nehwal reacts after being defeated by China's Wang Shixian during their women's single quarter final match at the 2010 Badminton World Championships at the Coubertin stadium in Paris, August 27, 2010.  REUTERS/Regis DuvignauReuters - Malaysia's world number one Lee Chong Wei exited the world badminton championships on Friday, beaten 21-15 11-21 21-12 in the quarter-finals by former world and Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat.


Inflation pressures easing: RBI head (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 05:35 AM PDT

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao smiles during a business conference in New Delhi July 31, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - India's growth is getting more broad-based and inflationary pressures are easing and the central will calibrate policy action to the evolving growth-inflation dynamics, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor said on Friday.


BlackBerry solution needs to pass through trials (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Aug 2010 11:37 PM PDT

A salesman is seen behind the box of a blackberry handset at a shop in Kochi August 18, 2010. REUTERS/Sivaram V.Reuters - Any solution provided by Research in Motion , makers of BlackBerry smartphones, must pass through field trials to satisfy India's security concerns, a senior government source said on Friday.


Sachin Pilot: Hopeful of BlackBerry solution (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 12:31 AM PDT

BlackBerry handset boxes are displayed for sale at a mobile phone shop in Kochi August 26, 2010. REUTERS/Sivaram VReuters - The government is hopeful Research In Motion, makers of BlackBerry smartphones, will come up with a solution to enable security agencies access its encrypted data, junior telecoms minister Sachin Pilot said on Friday.


"We're about to crash," BA passengers told in error (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:54 AM PDT

A file photo shows a British Airways airplane approach Heathrow Airport in London May 21, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/FilesReuters - British Airways apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.


Management Tip of the Day: Getting Started in Social Media (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:14 AM PDT

A Twitter page is displayed on a laptop computer in Los Angeles October 13, 2009. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/FilesReuters - The Management Tip of the Day offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from Harvard Business Review and HBR.org (http:\\www.hbr.org). Any opinions expressed are not endorsed by Reuters.


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