2011年8月4日星期四

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Sonia Gandhi to undergo surgery abroad (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT

Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi speaks during a conference on autism in Dhaka July 25, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj/Reuters - Sonia Gandhi, ruling Congress party chief and the country's most powerful politician, will undergo surgery abroad, possibly in the United States, for an undisclosed medical condition and could be out for two to three weeks.


India OKs $270 mln equity infusion into Air India (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 09:05 AM PDT

Passengers speak to ticketing staff through the counter at the Air India ticket office at the domestic airport in Mumbai April 27, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash/FilesReuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) The cabinet approved on Thursday an equity infusion of 12 billion rupees ($270 million) into ailing state-run carrier Air India, a government statement said, giving a new lease of life to an airline that has not posted a profit since 2007.


Sheila Dikshit under fire over graft allegations (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 12:18 AM PDT

India's ruling Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi (C), Chief Minister of Indian capital Sheila Dikshit (R) and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi B. L. Joshi in New Delhi September 18, 2006. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demanded the resignation of Delhi's chief minister in connection with graft allegations in the 2010 Commonwealth Games, in another attack on the government struggling to push reforms in parliament.


Monsoon patchy for second week, pick up hoped for (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:21 AM PDT

A couple rests on a seaside promenade during a rain shower in Kochi May 29, 2011. REUTERS/Sivaram V/FilesReuters - India's monsoon rains need to pick up in August after two straight weeks of below normal showers to help make up for the loss in soil moisture and aid vegetative growth of crops such as rice, cane, corn, cotton, and soybean.


JSW Steel denies wrongdoing; cuts production (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 06:19 AM PDT

Reuters - Steelmaker JSW Steel on Thursday denied allegations of wrongdoing levelled by the Karnataka Lokayukta and also said the firm has cut production at its steel plant owing to a court ban on mining in the state.

India expects great things from Sehwag's return (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:48 AM PDT

Virender Sehwag walks in the nets during a practice session ahead of their ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match against Pakistan in Mohali March 29, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash/FilesReuters - Former India players are united in their belief that Virender Sehwag's return from injury will stabilise the team's fragile batting order and lift morale in the remaining two tests against a dominant England.


FEATURE - Child marriage a scourge for millions of girls (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:40 AM PDT

Child bride Krishna (R), 12, sits with her husband Kishan Gopal, 14, at her house in a village near Baran, located in Rajasthan, in this July 30 , 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - Child marriage, which steals the innocence of millions of girls worldwide and often condemns them to lives of poverty, ignorance and poor health, is one of the biggest obstacles to development, rights groups say.


FEATURE - Schoolgirl defies tradition to reject child marriage (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:34 AM PDT

A Muslim bride smiles during a mass wedding ceremony in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder/FilesReuters - Her fate looked sealed when her family began organising the nuptial celebrations. But the bride-to-be, a shy schoolgirl from a remote village in western India, wasn't ready to say "I do".


FACTBOX - Child marriage threatens girls' health and rights (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:26 AM PDT

Child bride Krishna,11, sits during a marriage ceremony at her husband's home in a village near Kota, located in Rajasthan, May 16, 2010. The legal age for marriage in India is 18, but weddings like these are common, especially in poor, rural areas where girls in particular are married off young. TREUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - Every day, more than 25,000 girls under the age of 18 are married worldwide, rights groups estimate. For many child brides, a future of poverty, exploitation and poor health awaits.


Ojha heads to England buoyed by shock recall (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:03 AM PDT

India's Pragyan Ojha speaks with umpire Billy Bowden during the fifth day of their second test cricket match against Australia in Bangalore October 13, 2010. REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-ReynoldsReuters - Left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha is keen to capitalise on a second bite of the cherry after landing a surprise call-up to an India squad he was originally omitted from for the ongoing tour of England.


Food inflation at 8.04 pct y/y as at July 23 - govt (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:03 AM PDT

An employee counts Indian rupee notes at a cash counter inside a bank in Agartala December 31, 2010.  REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/FilesReuters - Food price index rose 8.04 percent and the fuel price index climbed 12.12 percent in the year to July 23, government data on Thursday showed.


'State actor' behind slew of cyber attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:53 AM PDT

U.S. Department of Homeland Security analysts work at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) located just outside Washington in Arlington, Virginia on September 24, 2010. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang/FilesReuters - Security experts have discovered an unprecedented series of cyber attacks on the networks of 72 organizations globally, including the United Nations, governments and corporations, over a five-year period.


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