2011年5月18日星期三

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Saha sets up Chennai's ninth win in IPL (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:26 PM PDT

A policeman stands guard at one of the entrances to a cricket stadium during a match in IPL tournament in Kolkata April 19, 2010. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal/FilesReuters - Wriddhiman Saha hit an unbeaten 33-ball 46 to set up a 11-run win for champions Chennai Super Kings against Kochi Tuskers Kerala that took them to the top of the Indian Premier League (IPL) table on Wednesday.


India not getting "bang for rupee" from poverty schemes (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:28 AM PDT

Three-year-old Babu, a child of a migrant labourer, holds a glass filled with tea outside a makeshift tent along a road at Noida in Uttar Pradesh January 4, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma/FilesReuters - India's key social development programmes, which have formed the core election promises of the ruling Congress party at a cost of over 2 percent of its GDP, are failing to effectively tackle widespread poverty, a World Bank report said on Wednesday.


Hotel maid to testify, IMF chief pressured to quit (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 09:35 AM PDT

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives for a news conference after a meeting with Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega in Brasilia March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/FilesReuters - A hotel maid who says IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her was due to testify before a New York grand jury on Wednesday, as the French presidential hopeful faced growing pressure to resign.


Lady Gaga ousts Oprah on Forbes celebrity power list (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 01:05 PM PDT

Singer Lady Gaga performs on the Canal Plus television show Reuters - Flamboyant pop singer Lady Gaga ousted U.S. media mogul Oprah Winfrey to top this year's Forbes celebrity power list released on Wednesday.


No sign Pakistan knew bin Laden whereabouts - U.S. (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:00 PM PDT

A member of the All India Anti-Terrorist Front (AIATF) gestures in front of a portrait of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a pro-U.S. rally as the group celebrates bin Laden's killing, in Noida in Uttar Pradesh May 5, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma/FilesReuters - Top U.S. defense officials said on Wednesday there was no evidence Pakistan's leadership was aware that Osama bin Laden was in their country before a U.S. military raid killed him, and they cautioned against punitive action against Islamabad over the incident.


China vows lasting support for troubled Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 10:05 AM PDT

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (L) and China's Premier Wen Jiabao listen to their national anthems during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, May 18, 2011. REUTERS/Jason LeeReuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao assured his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani of China's "all-weather friendship" on Wednesday, during a visit that sharply contrasted with anger between Washington and Islamabad.


Ahluwalia says not in race for IMF chief post (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 04:55 AM PDT

India's Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia attends a business conference organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi March 27, 2009. REUTERS/Vijay Mathur/FilesReuters - Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Wednesday he was not putting forward his name for the International Monetary Fund chief's post.


Warne fined $50,000 for criticising official in IPL (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 04:41 AM PDT

Shane Warne removes his glasses at the WACA ground in Perth December 16, 2010. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne/FilesReuters - Australian cricketer Shane Warne has been fined $50,000 for publicly criticising an official, the Indian Premier League (IPL) said on Wednesday.


Four years on, lustre fades from Indian Premier League (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 03:44 AM PDT

Policemen stand guard outside a cricket stadium during a match in IPL tournament in Kolkata April 19, 2010. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal/FilesReuters - For a show it was hard to beat: A DJ blasted Bollywood songs, fans decked out in the colours of the home side danced in the aisles, and the wife of billionaire Mukesh Ambani perched on an electric-blue sofa near the Mumbai Indians' dugout.


Brazil woman becomes world's oldest person at 114 (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 02:01 PM PDT

Reuters - A Brazilian great-great grandmother, Maria Gomes Valentim, is the world's oldest living person at the age of 114 and 313 days, Guinness World Records on Wednesday.

Sony finds security flaw, takes down website (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:01 PM PDT

Boys play Sony Playstation Portables (PSPs) at an electronic shop in Tokyo May 7, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/FilesReuters - Sony Corp said it discovered a security flaw on one of the websites set up to help the 77 million users affected by April's massive data breach reset their passwords.


Maoists kill seven police, call for general strike (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 01:03 AM PDT

Reuters - Seven policemen were killed in a Maoist rebel landmine blast in Chhattisgarh, police said on Wednesday, as the insurgents called for a 48-hour strike in six states across the country.

End to DEPB export tax break draws anger (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 10:34 AM PDT

Dock workers stand near containers stacked at the Container Terminal at the Cochin Port on Willingdon Island in Kerala July 27, 2009. REUTERS/Sivaram V/FilesReuters - The government said it will end a tax break for exporters because the $250 billion sector no longer needs it, drawing stinging criticism from manufacturers.


Cell therapy aims to prevent transplant rejection (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 11:32 AM PDT

Reuters - A cell treatment to prevent new organs being rejected without the need for lifelong courses of immune drugs is showing promise in mice and may one day make human transplants easier, scientists said.

India, U.S. start $50 mln fund for clean technology (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 02:36 AM PDT

An airplane flies over windmills on the grounds of the Technological and Renewable Energies Institute (ITER) outside Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Spanish Canary Island of Tenerife March 29, 2011. REUTERS/Santiago Ferrero/FilesReuters - The United States and India announced a joint $50 million fund to promote research in clean energy technologies on Wednesday, a step seen as part of efforts to whittle down their differences over how to fight climate change.


FIFA steps up fight against $90 bln match-fixing industry (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:58 AM PDT

A cameraman films in front of the main entrance of the Home of FIFA in Zurich October 20, 2010.  REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/FilesReuters - Soccer match-fixing yields $90 billion annually, a figure equivalent to legal betting, FIFA's security chief Chris Eaton said on Wednesday, emphasising the need to curb corruption in the sport.


Over 70 militants attack Pakistani security post, 17 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 18 May 2011 12:24 AM PDT

Reuters - More than 70 militants armed with rockets and mortars attacked a security post on the outskirts of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, the latest in an upsurge of violence since Osama bin Laden was killed in the country this month.

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