India, China to resume defence contacts frozen for a year - source (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 07:12 AM PDT Reuters - India will resume defence ties with China on Sunday when a military delegation will travel to Beijing, a year after New Delhi suspended such meetings over a visa spat, a government source said on Thursday. |
Maruti Suzuki ends strike - report (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 02:21 PM PDT Reuters - India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki ended a 13-day strike late on Thursday that has cost the company more than $60 million, the Press Trust of India quoted a government official saying. |
Indian health risks rise after move to city: study (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2011 08:34 PM PDT Reuters - After Indians migrate from rural to urban areas, the longer they live in a city the worse they score on measures of cardiac health and diabetes risk compared to those who remained in rural areas, according to an Indian study. |
Bin Laden deputy Zawahri to lead al Qaeda (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:03 PM PDT Reuters - Al Qaeda's long-serving number two, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri, has taken over the leadership after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the group said on Islamist websites on Thursday. |
ANALYSIS - India's Olympic quest undermined by underinvestment? (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:15 AM PDT Reuters - While India's government has pledged to chase Olympic success and improve on the country's record of nine gold medals in 52 years, the $58 million investment it hopes will bring glory in London next year is being viewed as inadequate for a country of 1.2 billion people. |
Monsoon rains 9 pct below normal in the week to June 15 - weather office (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 05:36 AM PDT Reuters - The monsoon rains were 9.0 percent below normal in the week to June 15, the weather office said on Thursday, with rice and cotton growing regions in the south and east suffering the lowest rainfall. |
India needs price stability for sustaining growth - Pranab (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:53 AM PDT Reuters - India needs better price stability for sustaining growth in the medium term, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday, after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised its lending rate for the tenth time in the last 15 months. |
RBI raises rates again, signals more increases (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 02:25 AM PDT Reuters - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised interest rates on Thursday for the 10th time since March 2010 and said it will persist in its battle against stubbornly high inflation, downplaying worries about slowing growth in Asia's third-largest economy. |
China closes Tibet to foreigners ahead of anniversary (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 04:55 AM PDT Reuters - China has closed Tibet to foreigners ahead of the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, travel agents said on Thursday of a region where many ethnic Tibetans have chafed under Chinese rule. |
Indian athletes not keen to follow Li, trust husband-coaches (Reuters) Posted: 15 Jun 2011 11:12 PM PDT Reuters - Husbands who coach their athlete wives in India can breathe easy. |
Food price index up 8.96 pct y/y as at June 4 - govt (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:20 AM PDT Reuters - The food price index rose 8.96 percent and the fuel price index climbed 12.84 percent in the year to June 4, government data showed on Thursday. |
Giggs sues News of the World over phone hacking (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 03:48 AM PDT Reuters - Manchester United soccer star Ryan Giggs has joined a growing list of celebrities suing Britain's News of the World tabloid for illegally intercepting their voicemail messages, his lawyers revealed on Thursday. |
China plans to help Nepal develop Buddha's birthplace (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jun 2011 12:28 AM PDT Reuters - A Chinese-backed foundation and Nepal's government plan to transform Lord Buddha's birthplace in southern Nepal into a magnet for Buddhists in the same way as Mecca is to Muslims and the Vatican for Catholics. |
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