Supreme Court orders govt to probe black money (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 03:40 AM PST Reuters - India's Supreme Court asked the government on Thursday to probe billion of dollars of illegal funds stashed by Indians abroad, ratcheting up the pressure on the Congress-coalition to fight corruption in high places. |
Small explosion in Davos hotel, nobody hurt (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 04:51 PM PST Reuters - Left-wing activists claimed responsibility for a small explosion on Thursday that broke windows at a hotel in Davos, close to where top executives and world leaders were meeting, but nobody was hurt. |
Kolkata loses high-profile World Cup match (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 07:06 AM PST Reuters - Kolkata's Eden Gardens has been dropped as the venue of the high-profile India v England match at next month's World Cup due to delays in renovation work, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday. |
Djokovic shocks Federer, Li upsets Wozniacki (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:54 AM PST Reuters - An inspired Novak Djokovic shocked defending champion Roger Federer in the Australian Open semi-finals on Thursday to leave the Swiss without a grand slam title for the first time in eight years. |
FACTBOX - Readiness of the World Cup stadiums (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:54 PM PST Reuters - Factbox on the readiness of the stadiums for the cricket World Cup after Kolkata's Eden Gardens was dropped as the venue of the India v England match. |
Inflation dulls India star, unnerves foreign investors (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:27 AM PST Reuters - Soaring inflation and rate rises are starting to hit corporate margins in India, tempting more foreign fund managers to slash holdings in favour of markets that can better capitalise on the global economic recovery. |
RIM says no access to corporate email in India (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:30 AM PST Reuters - BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Thursday said there was no possibility of providing the government access to corporate emails on BlackBerry devices. |
Govt has no immediate plan to halt commodity futures (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 06:05 AM PST Reuters - India has no immediate plans to ban futures trading in any commodity, the consumer affairs secretary said on Thursday, after concerns the government could curb futures in essential food items to tame high inflation. |
Indians dismayed by Eden Gardens decision (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 09:25 AM PST Reuters - The decision to drop Eden Gardens as host of a high-profile World Cup match has been greeted with dismay in India and prompted calls to give arguably the country's most famous ground another chance. |
Rogue league organisers threaten legal action against FIH (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:42 AM PST Reuters - Organisers of a rebel Indian hockey league are considering legal action against the game's governing body after it ordered member countries to keep their players out of the competition or face Olympic exclusion. |
Armed American kills two gunmen in Pakistan (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:30 AM PST Reuters - A U.S. consulate employee shot and killed two gunmen in self-defence in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday, police said. |
Sony takes on DS and smartphones with new handheld (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 10:27 AM PST Reuters - Sony Corp unveiled a new handheld gaming device and announced it would make PlayStation games available on other makers' hardware, as it battles with Nintendo's DS and tries to fend off competition from Apple Inc's iPhone. |
A decade on, many Bhuj quake survivors claw a living (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 12:08 AM PST Reuters - When the ground shook in India's industrial heartland of Gujarat on a sunny morning a decade ago, crushing homes and killing thousands of people, authorities mounted a largely impressive effort to rebuild. |
Mandela hospitalisation raises concern over health (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:53 AM PST Reuters - Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalised overnight for routine medical tests, reviving concern over the health of the frail 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon. |
Djokovic floors Federer as emotions run high (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 05:53 AM PST Reuters - Novak Djokovic stunned defending champion Roger Federer 7-6 7-5 6-4 to reach his second Australian Open final on Thursday after a match of high emotion which threatened to boil over. |
Muslim birth rate falls, population to grow more slowly (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 09:46 PM PST Reuters - Falling birth rates will slow the world's Muslim population growth over the next two decades, reducing it on average from 2.2 percent a year in 1990-2010 to 1.5 percent a year from now until 2030, a new study says. |
Food inflation inches up in mid-Jan (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 11:55 PM PST Reuters - The food inflation remained sticky in mid-January on higher onion and fruit prices while fuel inflation eased, but it is unlikely to affect expectations of further rates increases by the central bank in coming months. |
Paes-Bhupathi reach Australian Open final (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2011 10:08 PM PST Reuters - Australian Open men's doubles semi-final results on Thursday (prefix denotes seeding; * indicates new result) |
Indian consumer firms eye Africa as next growth driver (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:19 AM PST Reuters - Indian consumer goods makers are scrambling to buy assets in Africa, applying their knowledge of challenging, lower-income markets to a continent where spending power is on the rise. |
Clijsters rockets into Melbourne final (Reuters) Posted: 27 Jan 2011 01:19 AM PST Reuters - Belgium's Kim Clijsters wasted little time flattening second seed Vera Zvonareva 6-3 6-3 with an awesome display of power tennis to reach her second Australian Open final on Thursday. |
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