Manmohan Singh invites Zardari, Gilani for Mohali semi-final (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:39 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited the Pakistani president and prime minister to watch Wednesday's cricket match between the two South Asian rivals in what is being dubbed "cricket diplomacy". |
DGCA cancels licences of 14 pilots suspected of faking documents (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:01 AM PDT Reuters - India has cancelled the licences of 14 airline pilots after police accused them of faking documents, a senior aviation official said on Friday, but he dismissed worries about safety in Indian skies. |
Oram athleticism turns tide New Zealand's way (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:50 PM PDT Reuters - A remarkable piece of athleticism by former New Zealand youth goalkeeper Jacob Oram swung the World Cup quarter-final against South Africa decisively in his team's favour on Friday. |
India, China's rivalry and a tale of two ports (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:33 AM PDT Reuters - India and China's quest for clout and resources extends across the globe, but perhaps the best manifestation of this fierce competition, and possible sign of who will ultimately win, lies in a tale of two ports. |
Talismanic Yuvraj fuels India's semi-final charge (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 08:27 AM PDT Reuters - A cricket-crazy nation remains enamoured with Sachin Tendulkar's single-minded quest to own every available milestone but statistics suggest Yuvraj Singh has been India's most valuable player in the World Cup so far. |
Ponting walks into World Cup sunset (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 10:53 AM PDT Reuters - Ricky Ponting's battling century could not prevent another blot on his captaincy record but the Australian walked into the World Cup sunset knowing he had at least salvaged his batting reputation. |
Radiation fears mount again in Japan after plant workers injured (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 05:56 AM PDT Reuters - Radiation fears escalated in Japan on Friday after workers suffered burns as they tried to cool an earthquake-crippled nuclear plant, while the government sowed confusion over whether it was widening an evacuation zone |
West strikes Libya forces, NATO sees 90-day campaign (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:54 AM PDT Reuters - Western warplanes bombed Muammar Gaddafi's armour in eastern Libya on Friday to try to break a battlefield stalemate and help rebels take the strategic town of Ajdabiyah. |
Telenor seeks to lift court order on Uninor issue (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 09:54 AM PDT Reuters - Norway's Telenor said on Friday it had approached an Indian court to lift a "stay order" imposed on a proposed rights issue to raise funds for its local mobile phone unit Uninor. |
Apple fans queue overnight to beat iPad shortages (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 08:23 AM PDT Reuters - Hundreds of customers queued outside Apple stores in Asia and Europe to buy an iPad 2 tablet computer amid fears that shortages in the United States would be repeated abroad. |
Chandhok's Team Lotus debut ends with a crash (Reuters) Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:19 PM PDT Reuters - Karun Chandhok's first drive in the Team Lotus Formula One car lasted less than a minute before he spun on the track and crashed into a barrier on Friday. |
Raina may be the answer to India's middle order woes (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 08:23 AM PDT Reuters - India would be fairly justified in believing that in Suresh Raina, they have finally found the missing piece of the middle order puzzle that vexed them in the group stage of the World Cup. |
One-dimensional bowling led to Aussie downfall (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 08:23 AM PDT Reuters - If Australia needed to find a reason for their earliest World Cup exit since 1992, they need look no further than their own one-dimensional bowling attack. |
Chandhok's Lotus debut ends with a crash (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:47 AM PDT Reuters - Karun Chandhok was left red-faced after his first drive in the Team Lotus Formula One car lasted less than a minute before the Indian spun on the track and crashed into a barrier on Friday. |
Quake kills 74 in Myanmar, aftershock rattles Thailand (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:20 AM PDT Reuters - At least 74 people were killed in a strong earthquake that struck Myanmar, state media said on Friday, while a series of aftershocks have caused panic but only limited damage in Thailand and Laos. |
HRT manage to put car on track for two (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:46 AM PDT Reuters - Formula One strugglers Hispania (HRT) toiled through the night to get their cars ready for practice on Friday, but only Vitantonio Liuzzi emerged from the garage to ironic cheers two minutes before the end of the second session. |
World Bank approves $400 mln for Pakistan education sector (Reuters) Posted: 25 Mar 2011 04:04 AM PDT Reuters - The World Bank approved a $400 million loan on Friday for Pakistan's flailing education system, one of the world's worst where the country spends less than 1.5 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on schooling. |