Pakistan square series with spirited win at Lord's (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - Pakistan recovered from a terrible start to their day to complete a spirited victory in the fourth one-day international against England at Lord's on Monday. |
Floods in northern India sweep away homes, crops (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:09 AM PDT Reuters - Unusually heavy monsoon rains over northern India have flooded villages, leaving more than half a million people homeless and submerging crops in a key sugar producing region, officials said on Monday. |
MPs meet detained Kashmir separatists (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:18 AM PDT Reuters - Indian MPs met detained Kashmiri separatists on Monday, despite a rebel boycott of government-sponsored talks to end the biggest independence uprising in Kashmir in over 20 years, but no breakthrough was expected. |
Ghost of communal riots haunts Babri masjid verdict (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 12:50 AM PDT Reuters - A court will rule on Friday whether Hindus or Muslims own land around the demolished Babri mosque in Ayodhya, a judgement haunted by memories of a 1992 riot, some of the country's worst violence since the partition. |
Oil companies to marginally up petrol prices - source (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 07:38 AM PDT Reuters - Indian state-run oil retailers will raise petrol prices for the first time since the government ended price controls in June, an industry source said on Monday, but increases are likely to be less than 1 percent. |
PCB chief roundly criticised for England accusations (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:26 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt was accused by his predecessors of making "ridiculous" match-fixing accusations against England which would further isolate Pakistan from the rest of the cricket community. |
India worried about possible U.S. protectionism - Pranab (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:15 AM PDT Reuters - India is worried that recent comments by U.S. President Barack Obama could lead to increased protectionism and will raise the issue when G20 leaders meet in South Korea, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. |
Coal India gets regulatory nod for $3 bln IPO - sources (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:46 AM PDT Reuters - State-run Coal India has received a go-ahead from the markets regulator for its up to $3 billion initial public offering -- expected to be the biggest share sale ever by an Indian firm, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. |
Education in poor countries hurt by financial crisis (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 11:31 AM PDT Reuters - As world leaders meet this week to review a U.N. bid to cut poverty and hunger by 2015, the Global Campaign for Education warned that the financial crisis had halted improvements in education for children in impoverished countries. |
Madhya Pradesh train crash kills 20 (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:17 AM PDT Reuters - A passenger train crashed into a goods train in Madhya Pradesh early on Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring 50, an official said. |
Australia Commonwealth team New Delhi-bound despite shootings (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:13 AM PDT Reuters - The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) said Sunday's tourist shooting in New Delhi will not change its Commonwealth Games plans. |
India drop Yuvraj from tests against Australia (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 06:58 AM PDT Reuters - Middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh was dropped on Monday from India's test squad against Australia while Zaheer Khan and Shantakumaran Sreesanth have returned from injuries to bolster the pace department. |
Inflation to determine policy action: RBI Chief (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 04:58 AM PDT Reuters - Inflation will determine the future course of monetary policy action, India's central bank Governor Duvvuri Subbarao said on Monday. |
India seeks upgrades for BlackBerry monitoring - sources (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 05:53 AM PDT Reuters - India has asked mobile phone operators to upgrade their networks to help security agencies intercept communication on BlackBerry devices, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Monday, as the government wants access to highly-secure data. |
England angrily reject corruption allegations (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 08:26 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan were embroiled in bitter new corruption row before play even began in the fourth one-day international against England at Lord's on Monday. |
India braces for politically charged verdict (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:14 AM PDT Reuters - A court will rule on Friday whether Hindus or Muslims own land around Babri masjid in Ayodhya in a bid to settle a dispute that in 1992 sparked some of the worst riots since the sub-continent's partition. |
Australia, U.S. warn citizens as India probe shooting (Reuters) Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:30 AM PDT Reuters - Australia and the United States issued travel warnings on Monday a day after two Taiwanese nationals were shot at near India's main mosque in the nation's capital and an explosion in a car at the same place. |
World must rethink poverty fight - U.S. aid chief (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2010 08:28 PM PDT Reuters - The world must rethink strategies for fighting global poverty, with new emphasis on economic growth, accountability and governance key if basic goals for helping the world's poorest by 2015 are to be met, the U.S. aid chief said. |