CBI probing Anil Ambani in graft case - report (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 09:11 AM PDT Reuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is examining the role of tycoon Anil Ambani in the multi-billion dollar 2G telecoms scandal that has rocked India's political and business elites, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said on Thursday. |
Orissa hit by worst floods in 30 years (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:24 AM PDT Reuters - Tens of thousands of people in Orissa are stranded - living on roof tops or sleeping in the open with little food and water - in the worst floods to hit the area in 30 years, aid workers and officials said on Wednesday. |
Pakistan warns against U.S. attack on militants (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 09:58 AM PDT Reuters - U.S. military action against insurgents in Pakistan would be unacceptable and the country's army would be capable of responding, intelligence chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha told a meeting of political leaders in Islamabad, according to media reports. |
Food, fuel inflation accelerate in mid-September (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 12:40 AM PDT Reuters - India's food and fuel inflation accelerated in mid September, indicating persistently high inflationary pressures in the economy which may prompt the central bank to continue to tighten rates. |
Pakistan never backed Haqqani network - spy chief (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:19 PM PDT Reuters - Pakistan's intelligence chief on Thursday denied U.S. accusations that the country supports the Haqqani network, an Afghan militant group blamed for an attack on the American embassy in Kabul. |
India axe Harbhajan for first two one-dayers (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 04:19 AM PDT Reuters - India axed spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday and drafted in the uncapped Sreenath Aravind and Rahul Sharma for the first two one-day internationals against England next month. |
Gas explosion at hotel in Islamabad injures six (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:47 AM PDT Reuters - An apparent gas explosion at a hotel in a commercial area of the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Thursday injured six people, rescue officials said. |
Aerosol particles dry out South Asian monsoons - study (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:31 AM PDT Reuters - Summer monsoons that provide up to 80 percent of the water South Asia needs have gotten drier in the past half century, possibly due to aerosol particles spewed by burning fossil fuels, climate scientists said on Thursday. |
India to reap bumper grains, sugar crop after normal monsoon (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 03:34 AM PDT Reuters - India's monsoon rains are tapering off at the end of a normal four-month season, leaving behind farms full of rice, cane and cotton that could help the country curb high food prices and leave plenty of grain and sugar for exports in 2011/12. |
Social media - political tool for good or evil? (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - After the "Arab Spring" surprised the world with the power of technology to revolutionize political dissent, governments are racing to develop strategies to respond to, and even control, the new player in the political arena -- social media. |
Shelling, gunfire rocks Yemen capital, breaking truce (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 11:01 PM PDT Reuters - Heavy clashes rocked northern neighbourhoods of Yemen's capital Sanaa at dawn on Thursday, breaking a truce aimed at ending the worst violence since a popular revolt against President Ali Abdullah Saleh began eight months ago. |
Typhoon Nesat leaves HK, heads for south China (Reuters) Posted: 29 Sep 2011 02:21 AM PDT Reuters - Hong Kong downgraded its typhoon warning after it shut schools and businesses for most of Thursday, with Nesat now headed to Hainan in south China. |
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