2011年6月21日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Crisis-hit government defers parliament reopening (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 05:03 AM PDT

A view of the Indian parliament building in New Delhi February 23, 2007. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - The parliament will reopen two weeks later than usual, giving the embattled government more time to reach an agreement with civil society over drafting a tough anti-graft "Jan Lokpal" bill and head off any more national protests.


India on top after West Indies batting fails (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Reuters - India dominated the second day of the first test against West Indies on Tuesday to seize the momentum in the series opener at Sabina Park.

NY maid claims Indian consul exploited her - filing (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 01:14 PM PDT

Reuters - India's consul general in New York and his family treated a former maid like a slave, paying her $300 a month, confiscating her passport and sexually harassing her, a lawsuit against the family said.

2011 monsoon rains seen just below normal (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 07:18 AM PDT

A boy walks along the seawall, against the backdrop of monsoon clouds, on the outskirts of Kochi June 1, 2010. REUTERS/Sivaram V/FilesReuters - India's vital monsoon this year is expected to be just below normal, the weather office said in a revised forecast on Tuesday, but the rains could pick up after July 15, during the key planting month for rice, sugar cane and corn.


Pakistan arrests brigadier over Islamist ties (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 08:45 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistan has detained a brigadier assigned to army headquarters over alleged links to a banned Islamist group, the army said on Tuesday, the highest-ranking serving officer arrested in a decade.

UN assembly approves 2nd term for Ban (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:09 PM PDT

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends a news conference in Brasilia, June 17, 2011. REUTERS/Ueslei MarcelinoReuters - The 192-nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a second five-year term for U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who analysts and diplomats see as a solid ally of Washington.


Obama's Afghan plan to start with 5,000-troop cut (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 03:55 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to military fathers and their children in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, June 15, 2011.  REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama is expected to unveil plans to withdraw about 5,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July and up to 5,000 more by year-end in a major speech on Wednesday to Americans increasingly weary of the costly, decade-old war.


Orissa halts land takeover for $12 bln POSCO plant (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 02:12 AM PDT

Villagers hold placards during a protest in Orissa May 18, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - Local protests have forced Orissa to halt acquiring land for a proposed $12 billion steel plant to be built by South Korea's POSCO, further delaying the biggest foreign direct investment in Asia's third largest economy.


Nokia unveils new N9 smartphone; analysts not impressed (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:37 AM PDT

The Nokia N9 smartphone is displayed at a Nokia news conference in Espoo, June 21, 2011. REUTERS/Heikki Saukkomaa/LehtikuvaReuters - Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity.


Sri Lanka officials head to India for T20 league talks (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jun 2011 02:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officials are hopeful that hastily arranged talks with their Indian counterparts will succeed in releasing players from that country to participate in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) Twenty20 tournament.

Bangalore police orders Google to suspend Street View service (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:40 PM PDT

A camera used for Google street view is pictured at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover March 2, 2010. REUTERS/Christian Charisius/FilesReuters - Google Inc has been ordered by city police to suspend its "Street View" service in Bangalore, the company said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to its global mapping project that has been hit by privacy fears.


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