2010年9月27日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


India vows to have Commonwealth Games Village ready (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 10:10 AM PDT

Vehicles move on a busy road in front of the weightlifting venue for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in New Delhi September 26, 2010. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - 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

Mike Lazaridis, president and co-chief executive officer of Research in Motion, holds the new Blackberry PlayBook with a screen projection of the device as he speaks at the RIM Blackberry developers conference in San Francisco, California September 27, 2010. REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - 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

An ailing woman is carried on top of a cooking pot through flood waters after heavy monsoon rains in Vrindavan September 25, 2010. REUTERS/K. K. AroraReuters - 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

Vehicles move slowly during morning rush hour in Hyderabad October 29, 2009. Foreign investors are likely to fund up to 30 percent of India's $18 billion road projects in the current fiscal year, a top official at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) said on Monday. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder/FilesReuters - (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

A man uses an electronic machine to check a currency note at a money exchange shop in Siliguri May 18, 2009. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - 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

A model gets her make-up done backstage during the Lakme India Fashion Week in Mumbai September 21, 2010. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiReuters - 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

A woman walks past a Pakistan national flag on display at a sidewalk in Lahore August 13, 2010. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/FilesReuters - 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

A boy suffering from cancer wears a Mickey Mouse headgear given during an entertainment function for children suffering from cancer at a hospital in Mumbai March 24, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - 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

Adi Godrej, chairman of Godrej Industries Ltd., arrives to attend an interview with Reuters in Mumbai July 13, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - 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

Indian policemen question a veiled Kashmiri Muslim woman at a barricade during a curfew in Srinagar September 25, 2010. REUTERS/Fayaz KabliReuters - 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

Workers clean a billboard outside the Commonwealth Games athletes village in New Delhi September 22, 2010. Pullouts by top athletes will not dilute the track and field competition, the organising committee of the Delhi Commonwealth Games said on Monday. REUTERS/Parivartan SharmaReuters - 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

A man sweeps in front of a board displaying the mascot of 2010 Commonwealth Games in front of the main entrance of the athletes village in New Delhi September 25, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan SharmaReuters - 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

Security personnel patrol at a shopping arcade ahead of Commonwealth Games in New Delhi September 26, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan SharmaReuters - It's not just the Commonwealth Games facilities that India's embattled government is trying to spruce up. It's the whole country.


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