2011年7月6日星期三

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Govt risks Pandora's box of demands over Telangana impasse (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 04:37 AM PDT

Pro-Telangana supporters shout slogans beside a burning effigy representing members of parliament from the state who have not submitted their resignations, during a strike in Hyderabad July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - The government's indecision over whether to create a new state of Telangana risks causing more unrest if other regions demand autonomy, and has further exposed the ruling Congress party as divided and rudderless.


Health minister Azad under fire for "gay disease" comments (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:13 AM PDT

Ghulam Nabi Azad attends a party function in Srinagar July 7, 2008. REUTERS/Danish Ismail/FilesReuters - Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad was trying to wriggle out of comments that homosexuality was "unnatural and a foreign disease," but critics said on Wednesday his prejudices made him unfit to head the ministry.


CBI probing Dayanidhi Maran in 2G case (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 07:45 AM PDT

Textiles Minister and a leader of the regional Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (DMK) party Dayanidhi Maran is pictured after meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee at the parliament in New Delhi March 7, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is probing the role of Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran in the alleged 2G spectrum allocation scam, a government lawyer told the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a fresh embarrassment for a government already mired in a series of scandals.


World has more private security guards than police (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 01:26 PM PDT

A man rides his bicycle past private security guards standing outside the main entrance to the Maruti Suzuki India Limited plant in Manesar, located in Haryana June 14, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - The private security industry is growing rapidly around the globe and employs twice as many people as governments have police officers, according to an authoritative report issued on Wednesday.


Rain ruins 1st day of India v Windies 3rd test (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 02:40 PM PDT

Reuters - Persistent rain forced a premature end to the opening day of the third and final test between India and West Indies in Dominica on Wednesday after the tourists had made a bright start.

Korean relief as Pyeongchang gets 2018 Games (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:11 AM PDT

South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak (C) and members of the Pyeongchang 2018  bid committee react after the announcement of the winning city bid for the 2018 Winter Olympic Games during the 123rd IOC session in Durban July 6, 2011. REUTERS/Rogan WardReuters - South Koreans reacted with unashamed joy and relief as the city of Pyeongchang overcame two past disappointments to win the right to stage the 2018 Winter Olympics in a surprisingly easy victory over their European rivals.


Oil prices unlikely to moderate significantly - Pranab (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:02 AM PDT

An attendant holds a petrol nozzle at a petrol pump in Siliguri January 4, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - The possibility of a significant moderation in global crude oil prices in the near term is low and not completely passing them through to Indian consumers could eventually be inflationary, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said.


Q+A - What do demands for Telangana state mean for India? (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 05:27 AM PDT

A pro-Telangana supporter throws a stone towards police during a strike in Hyderabad July 5, 2011. REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - Activists who want the government to recognise statehood for Telangana shut businesses and disrupted transport during a two-day strike this week, posing another challenge to floundering Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress party.


Pakistan panel says bin Laden family won't be repatriated (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 08:36 AM PDT

A boy looks at a poster of Osama bin Laden during a pro-Taliban rally in Rawalpindi, October 5, 2001.REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski/ FilesReuters - Osama bin Laden's family, detained in Pakistan, will only be repatriated once a government-appointed commission investigating the al Qaeda leader's killing allows them to leave, the panel said,


Coach Natt targets new heights for Indian basketball (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 06:30 AM PDT

Sacramento Kings interim head coach Kenny Natt shouts instructions to his team in Sacramento, California January 11, 2009. REUTERS/Max Whittaker/FilesReuters - Less than two months after taking on the India coaching job, Kenny Natt's intuition tells him that there must be a budding Yao Ming or LeBron James just waiting to be unearthed somewhere in the country.


DSK team, prosecutors hold "constructive" meeting (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 11:49 AM PDT

A man reads the New York Daily News, which features former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on its front page, in Manhattan July 2, 2011. REUTERS/Allison JoyceReuters - New York prosecutors and defense lawyers for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn met for nearly two hours without any apparent resolution on Wednesday as the sexual assault case against him appeared to be falling apart.


Lagarde vows more clout for emerging markets at IMF (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 10:19 AM PDT

IMF managing director Christine Lagarde holds a news briefing at the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington July 6, 2011. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueReuters - Christine Lagarde, the IMF's new chief, pledged on Wednesday to push ahead with reforms to give fast-growing emerging markets greater sway at the global lender.


Pyeongchang enjoys crushing 2018 Games win (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Jul 2011 09:53 AM PDT

University students chat as they cheer for South Korea at a ski jump stadium in Pyeongchang, about 180 km (112 miles) east of Seoul, July 6, 2011, in its bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. REUTERS/Jo Yong-HakReuters - Pyeongchang of South Korea won the right to host the 2018 Winter Olympics on Wednesday with a crushing victory in the vote by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over rivals Munich of Germany and France's Annecy.


Boeing sees India new plane orders at $150 bln by 2030 (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 11:36 PM PDT

A passenger aircraft is silhouetted against the rising moon in New Delhi May 7, 2009. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - India's commercial airplane market will reach $150 billion over the next 20 years, Boeing said on Wednesday, as a burgeoning middle class is expected to drive demand in Asia's third-largest economy.


Mukesh Ambani looks to sell gas pipeline business - report (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2011 08:47 PM PDT

Reliance Industries KG-D6's floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is seen in this undated handout photo. Mukesh Ambani is looking to sell Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd, a business that builds pipelines to carry natural gas across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported. REUTERS/Reliance Industries/HandoutReuters - Mukesh Ambani is looking to sell Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastructure Ltd, a business that builds pipelines to carry natural gas across the country, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.


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