Thrilling test fizzles out on final day (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:48 AM PST Reuters - India's determination to avoid defeat on Thursday killed off any chances of a thrilling finale in the third and final test against South Africa. |
Karthikeyan lined up for F1 comeback (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 11:00 AM PST Reuters - Indian Narain Karthikeyan announced his Formula One comeback on Thursday after signing a deal with the struggling HRT team for a season that will include the first grand prix to be held in India. |
Food inflation accelerates to year-high (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:11 AM PST Reuters - Food inflation rose for the fifth straight week to the highest in more than a year, reinforcing fears it has spilt over to broader prices and cementing expectations of a January interest rate hike. |
God was behind Big Bang, universe no accident - Pope (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:34 AM PST Reuters - God's mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the Big Bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, Pope Benedict said on Thursday. |
Tribal clashes uproot thousands in NE India (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:11 AM PST Reuters - At least four people have been killed and up to 10,000 left homeless after ethnic clashes between two rival tribes in India's northeast, police and officials say. |
Apple launches app store for Macs, a la iPhone (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:34 AM PST Reuters - Apple Inc is launching an applications store for Mac computers, replicating a model that proved wildly popular on its iPhones. |
Devvarman, Chang land Australian Open wildcards (Reuters) Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:23 PM PST Reuters - India's Somdev Devvarman and Taiwan's Chang Kai-chen have landed wildcards for this month's Australian Open, the organisers said on Thursday. |
Asia scrambles to contain food inflation (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:47 AM PST Reuters - Record high food prices are moving to the top of the agenda for many Asian policymakers as the prospect of higher inflation in 2011 poses a major threat to the region's strong revival from the global financial crisis. |
Getting married? Take the quiz first (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:59 AM PST Reuters - A British family law firm is urging couples to take a "compatibility quiz" before getting married or deciding to live together. |
ICC fine Sreesanth, Indian team (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:35 AM PST Reuters - Indian bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth lost 10 percent match fee for kicking the boundary rope while the entire team have been fined separately for slow over rate, the International Cricket Council said on Thursday. |
ANALYSIS - Rising food prices bring host of political risks (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:06 AM PST Reuters - Record food prices will hit the world's poorest hardest, raising the risk of riots, export bans, foreign-owned farmland expropriation and further price spikes fuelled by short-term investors. |
India will not accept umpire review system, says BCCI (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:15 AM PST Reuters - The Indian cricket board has ruled out using the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) and also rejected an offer to travel to Australia and watch its Ashes application. |
Third test heads for draw as India hold firm (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 06:34 AM PST Reuters - The third and final test between South Africa and India was drifting towards a draw at tea on the final day at Newlands on Thursday. |
South Africa 362&341 v India 364&114-2, tea, day five (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 05:59 AM PST Reuters - India were 114 for two in their second innings, needing another 226 runs to win, at tea on the fifth and final day of the third and final test against South Africa at Newlands on Thursday. |
Mukherjee: state govts should remove supply bottlenecks (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:07 AM PST Reuters - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday asked the state governments to remove supply chain bottlenecks at the earliest in the food sector to bring prices down quickly, even as food inflation accelerated to a one year high. |
Departing U.N. says Nepal peace process risks failure (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:38 AM PST Reuters - Nepal's peace process risks failure with continued wrangling between former Maoist rebels and other political parties, the United Nations warned on Thursday as it prepares to withdraw from the country after four years. |
Oil firms' woes mount as inflation worries weigh (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 04:49 AM PST Reuters - Profitability at two of India's top state-run oil firms is being hurt at a time of high global crude costs, as the government delays increasing state-set fuel prices due to political pressure from high inflation. |
Force India to start pre-season tests with old car (Reuters) Posted: 06 Jan 2011 03:34 AM PST Reuters - Force India will start Formula One's pre-season testing next month with their old car before launching the new one at Spain's Jerez circuit, the team said on Thursday. |