2010年12月8日星期三

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Govt says Indian Mujahideen behind Varanasi blast (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 05:53 AM PST

A view of the site of a blast in the northern Indian city of Varanasi December 7, 2010.   REUTERS/StringerReuters - The government said on Wednesday a home-grown Islamist group with ties to Pakistani militants was behind a bomb attack in one of its holiest cities, and local media reported two people were questioned over the attack.


Police go after ex-minister A Raja in telecoms row (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 05:20 AM PST

A. Raja during a news conference in New Delhi January 18, 2006. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Officials of the Central Bureau Investigation (CBI) found what they said were "incriminating documents" in raids on homes and offices of a former telecoms minister on Wednesday in connection with the country's biggest corruption scandal.


Assange backers in cyber retaliation over arrest (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 07:38 AM PST

MasterCard credit cards are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in London December 8, 2010. WikiLeaks supporters apparently attacked the websites of the Swedish prosecutor and MasterCard in retaliation over moves made by them against Julian Assange. REUTERS/Jonathan BainbridgeReuters - WikiLeaks supporters apparently attacked the websites of the Swedish prosecutor and MasterCard in retaliation over moves made by them against Julian Assange, who has published secret U.S. diplomatic cables that have angered and embarrassed Washington.


Pakistan loses credibility in Taliban battle - study (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:11 PM PST

A man walks past vehicles carrying internally displaced people (IDPs),  who fled a military offensive in South Waziristan last year, as they depart from Dera Ismail Khan in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province December 4, 2010. REUTERS/Mustansar BalochReuters - Pakistan's government is overlooking the scale of civilian casualties in its war against militants and will lose credibility unless it acts to ease the suffering, a report by a U.S. pressure group showed.


Airlines to print fare levels for routes - trade body (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:17 PM PST

Air India's Airbus A321 and Boeing 777-200 LR aircrafts are on display at the tarmac of Mumbai airport July 30, 2007. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - The Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) said late on Tuesday its member carriers have decided to publish different fare levels for each route.


Thieves steal most of Sampras' memorabilia (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 08:32 AM PST

File photo of Pete Sampras of the U.S. playing tennis at a meeting with children during part of the Andre Agassi Farewell Tour in Heredia, near San Jose September 18, 2010. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate/FilesReuters - American tennis player Pete Sampras has had most of his trophies and other memorabilia stolen from a storage facility, he said.


Supreme Court orders probe into loans for telcos - lawyer (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 03:52 AM PST

Tripods of television crew stand in front of the Indian Supreme Court building in New Delhi December 7, 2010. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - The Supreme Court has ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe bank loans given to companies which were granted 2G telecoms licences in 2008, Prashant Bhushan, a lawyer involved in the case said on Wednesday.


TRAI proposes massive broadband boost (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 09:06 AM PST

Reuters - India's telecoms regulator called for massive expansion of broadband in the country and wanted the government to set up a nationwide broadband network that would cost about 600 billion rupees ($13 billion) to take high-speed Internet to rural hinterlands.

Suicide bomber kills 16 in northwest Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 04:48 AM PST

Residents gather near a minibus, which was damaged by a suicide bomb attack, in Kohat, Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province December 8. 2010. REUTERS/Shahid KhanzReuters - A suicide bomber blew himself up beside a minibus in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people, officials said.


Seven dead, 50 hurt in Bangladesh train crash - police (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 07:15 AM PST

Reuters - At least seven people were killed and 50 were injured in a head-on train collision in Bangladesh on Wednesday, police said.

Govt to soon decide on diesel price hike (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 01:23 AM PST

An employee counts currency at a fuel station in Mumbai June 25, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - The government will soon take a decision on raising diesel prices, Oil Secretary S. Sundareshan said on Wednesday, a move that would lower the subsidy bill and boost the financial health of oil marketing firms.


Toyota Tsusho to build rare earth plant in India (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 12:08 AM PST

Reuters - Toyota Tsusho Corp, a Toyota Motor Corp group company, said on Wednesday it will build a rare earth processing plant in India and start shipping 3,000 to 4,000 tonnes a year of the minerals to Japan in 2012.

China casts net wide in Nobel Prize crackdown (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Dec 2010 05:53 AM PST

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo and his wife Liu Xia pose in this undated photo released by his family on October 3, 2010. REUTERS/Handout/FilesReuters - China is conducting a sweeping crackdown on dissent before Friday's awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, casting the net wide to prevent friends and family attending the ceremony in Oslo.


Asia business sentiment rebounds, India upbeat - POLL (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 07:55 PM PST

A labourer sleeps in a roll of underground cables at a construction site in Jammu September 20, 2010. I REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/FilesReuters - Business sentiment at Asia's leading companies rebounded in the fourth quarter as corporations shrugged off concern that the debt crisis unfolding on Europe's fringes will hobble global growth.


FACTBOX - Who is Liu Xiaobo? (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 10:37 PM PST

Demonstrators hold pictures of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo during a protest in Hong Kong October 23, 2009. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/FilesReuters - Here are some facts about Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. China declared on Tuesday most nations supported its call to boycott this week's Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for the jailed dissident.


EXCLUSIVE - Delhi CWG organisers accused of owing millions (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 11:00 PM PST

President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and Commonwealth Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi is pictured inside the Commonwealth Games athletes village in New Delhi September 25, 2010. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Organisers of this year's New Delhi Commonwealth Games were accused on Tuesday of owing companies millions of dollars and blocking equipment used for the opening and closing ceremonies from leaving India.


Oil firms plan to raise auto fuel prices - report (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Dec 2010 08:26 PM PST

An attendant holds a petrol nozzle at a petrol pump in Siliguri August 5, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - State-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) plan to raise petrol and diesel prices by 2 rupees a litre after crude oil prices touched $90 a barrel on Tuesday, the Economic Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.


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