India vows to have Commonwealth Games Village ready (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:10 AM PDT Reuters - India promised to have the athletes' housing for the Commonwealth Games cleaned up by Wednesday, and said workers were labouring at double time to have all facilities ready for the opening ceremony on Oct. 3. |
RIM unveils PlayBook tablet to compete with iPad (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 04:28 PM PDT Reuters - Research In Motion unveiled a tablet computer on Monday that it hopes will leapfrog Apple's iPad with its potential for social networking, media publishing and corporate uses. |
Monsoon starts withdrawal (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 09:33 AM PDT Reuters - Monsoon rains have finally started withdrawing from grain-producing regions of northwest India, the National Climate Centre's director told Reuters on Monday, easing concerns prolonged rainfall would damage crops. |
Foreigners to fund up to 30 pct of Indian roads (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:33 AM PDT Reuters - (For other news from the Reuters India Infrastructure Summit, click on http://in.reuters.com/summit/IndiaInvestment10) |
IMF to do mandatory checks of financial systems (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:32 PM PDT Reuters - The International Monetary Fund said on Monday it will conduct mandatory check-ups of the financial sectors of 25 systemically-important countries to try to prevent another damaging global financial crisis. |
Emerging countries eye fashion brands - Milan execs (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:22 AM PDT Reuters - Emerging countries are improving the manufacturing quality of designer clothes and are looking to buy brands in mature markets, fashion executives said in Milan last week. |
Nuclear-armed Pakistan chairs board of U.N. atom body (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 06:16 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan became the new chair of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body on Monday, although it is outside a global anti-atomic arms pact and home to a smuggler who supplied nuclear secrets to Iran and North Korea. |
ANALYSIS - Cancer threat to poor demands same action as AIDS (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 05:52 AM PDT Reuters - Cancer is threatening to overwhelm poor countries and governments are under pressure to organise the kind of joined-up global response enlisted to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic. |
Godrej Properties sees 50 pct revenue rise (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:13 AM PDT Reuters - Godrej Properties expects revenue to jump more than 50 percent in the fiscal year ending in March as rising incomes boost demand for housing, the chairman of the $2.5 billion diversified group said on Monday. |
Hope, cynicism in Kashmir over govt security review (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 12:37 AM PDT Reuters - India's decision to try to defuse pro-independence protests in Kashmir is a step forward but needs a broader political initiative to make progress in the long term, the region's main opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) said on Sunday. |
Pullouts will not diminish standards - Delhi Games organisers (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:16 AM PDT Reuters - Pullouts by top athletes will not dilute the track and field competition, the organising committee of the Delhi Commonwealth Games said on Monday. |
India says Games Village to be ready by Wednesday (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 01:08 AM PDT Reuters - India promised to completely clean up the athletes' housing for the Commonwealth Games by Wednesday, the latest in a series of missed deadlines that have contributed to woes dogging the showcase event. |
India papers over shortcomings for Commonwealth Games (Reuters) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:17 AM PDT Reuters - It's not just the Commonwealth Games facilities that India's embattled government is trying to spruce up. It's the whole country. |