Games company rejects non-performance allegation, demands payment (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 03:46 AM PST Reuters - The payment dispute over last year's Commonwealth Games rumbles on with a foreign company rejecting claims of non-performance by organisers and demanding their fee is paid immediately. |
CBI arrests DB Realty MD as telecom scandal bites (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 05:55 AM PST Reuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have made the first arrest of a company executive in a multi-billion dollar telecoms corruption scandal that has rocked the Congress party-led government and undermined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
Vodafone, Bharti slam 2G spectrum proposals (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:42 AM PST Reuters - The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) proposed steep rises in the price of second-generation (2G) mobile radio waves, drawing criticism from carriers Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar who could pay hundreds of millions of dollars more. |
Police hunt for abducted WWF conservationists in Assam (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 11:30 PM PST Reuters - GUWAHATI (AlertNet) Suspected armed rebels in India's troubled northeast region have released three of six abducted conservationists from the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), police said, as a search intensified to find their missing colleagues. |
Anil Ambani group blames rivals for stock drop (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 09:01 AM PST Reuters - Billionaire Anil Ambani's Reliance ADA Group on Wednesday blamed a sharp drop in its stocks on what it said was a series of "baseless and motivated rumors" spread by rivals, and said it had complained to the market regulator. |
Argentina to play friendly with Germany in 2012 (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 11:47 AM PST Reuters - Argentina will play Germany in a friendly international in August 2012, it was confirmed by organisers on Wednesday. |
Govt plans to award fighter deal by March 2012 (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 08:00 AM PST Reuters - The government plans to award an $11 billion fighter jet contract by the end of March 2012, its defence minister said, as manufacturers at India's airshow vied to boost their share of a fast-growing military hardware market. |
Catholics cannot confess via iPhone - Vatican (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 06:07 AM PST Reuters - Catholics cannot confess via iPhone and technology is not a substitute for being present when admitting sins to a priest, the Vatican spokesman said on Wednesday. |
Organisers confident of safe World Cup (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 01:42 AM PST Reuters - With Pakistan scratched from the itinerary and peace descending on Sri Lanka, there is a growing feeling that the spectre of terror is no longer stalking the World Cup in the subcontinent like it did 15 years ago. |
TRAI proposes higher 2G spectrum price (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 12:03 AM PST Reuters - India's telcoms regulator has proposed to the government large increases in the price of second-generation spectrum that companies use for mobile services, it said on Wednesday. |
Pakistani cabinet resigns as part of revamp plan (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 02:05 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan's federal cabinet resigned on Wednesday to allow Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani to set up a new, smaller cabinet and reduce government expenditure, officials said. |
FACTBOX - Government hit by corruption scandals (Reuters) Posted: 09 Feb 2011 01:21 AM PST Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have arrested the first executive in a probe into a billion dollar telecoms scam that has rocked the Congress party-led coalition government and undermined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
South Asia faces rising incidence of heart disease, diabetes (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 10:26 PM PST Reuters - South Asia is facing a health crisis, with rising rates of heart disease, diabetes and obesity, and patients facing impoverishment as they pay for treatment out of their own pockets, the World Bank said on Wednesday. |
TRAI:1.71 mln users opt for Mobile Number Portability (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2011 07:30 PM PST Reuters - Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, India's telecoms regulator, on Tuesday said about 1.71 million mobile users have opted to switch operators while retaining their numbers by Feb. 5, following the launch of mobile number portability (MNP) in the world's fastest-growing mobile market. |