Afghanistan urges Pakistan to act on militants (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:47 AM PDT Reuters - Afghanistan urged Pakistan on Tuesday to "move beyond words" and take concrete steps to curb Islamist militants which it said were a threat to both countries. |
Pakistan trio guilty of spot fixing (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 01:53 PM PDT Reuters - Pakistan cricketers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif were found guilty on Tuesday of taking bribes to fix part of a test match against England in a case that prosecutors said revealed rampant corruption at the heart of international cricket. |
Sri Lanka to make post-war report public - foreign minister (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:43 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lanka will make public its report into the end of the civil war with the Tamil Tigers, the foreign minister said on Tuesday, seeking to allay concerns in the West, which has in the past pushed for an international probe into war crimes allegations. |
Furore over Ramayana essay points to India's cultural divide (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 07:05 AM PDT Reuters - Under pressure from Hindu hardliners, Delhi University has dropped a scholarly text on the Ramayana epic from its history syllabus, in the latest sign of conservatives' deep influence over a globalising India's cultural battles. |
Sensex falls over 200 pts on profit taking (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 05:57 AM PDT Reuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) The BSE Sensex dropped for the second straight session on Tuesday and closed down 1.27 percent, falling the most in ten days, led by losses in ICICI Bank, as investors continued to take profits after last month's rally. |
HPCL mulls petrol price hike; in talks with retailers (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 04:31 AM PDT Reuters - State-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) is considering a further increase in petrol prices as it struggles to cut down on retailing losses, its finance director said on Tuesday. |
F1 teams eye Indian sponsorship pie (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:04 AM PDT Reuters - The indifference shown by the majority of India's deep-pocketed corporates towards Formula One has baffled team bosses who expect them to warm to the sport following the success of last weekend's inaugural Indian Grand Prix. |
MF Global Sify says trading normal in India operations (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:39 AM PDT Reuters - MF Global Sify Securities India Pvt Securities, an Indian firm that is 70 percent-held by collapsed U.S. futures broker MF Global, is functioning normally, its head told a local television channel on Tuesday. |
October factory growth rebounds from 30-month low (Reuters) Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:43 PM PDT Reuters - Manufacturing rebounded for the first time in six months during October, having virtually stalled in September, boosted by rising domestic orders for new business, a survey showed on Tuesday. |
Maruti October car sales down more than half (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 12:24 AM PDT Reuters - Maruti Suzuki, India's top carmaker, sold less than half the cars in October as it did a year previously as labour unrest that cost around $500 million in lost production compounded a demand slowdown in Asia's third-largest economy. |
Greek referendum ignites German anger, hammers markets (Reuters) Posted: 01 Nov 2011 03:32 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister George Papandreou's shock decision to call a referendum on Greece's bailout drew veiled threats from Germany on Tuesday and hammered markets edgy over the euro zone crisis. |
China launches Shenzhou 8 ahead of space docking test (Reuters) Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:30 PM PDT Reuters - China launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday ahead of a docking exercise that will be a key test of the rising power's plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space. |
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