2011年3月28日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

Ratan Tata, Anil Ambani to face PAC over 2G probe (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:49 AM PDT

Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons Limited in Washington in this November 16, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/FilesReuters - Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani will appear before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that is probing the multi-billion-dollar telecoms licencing scandal, their companies said in separate statements on Monday.

Ponting to step down as Australia captain - reports (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT

Australia's cricket captain Ricky Ponting pauses during a news conference on his arrival at Sydney airport March 27, 2011. REUTERS/Tim WimborneReuters - Ricky Ponting, the most successful captain in test cricket, will step down as Australia skipper later on Tuesday but continue as a batsman with the team, local media reported.

Global majors shun India oil, gas block auction (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 10:48 AM PDT

An engineer of Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) works inside the Kalol oil field in Gujarat September 12, 2009. India failed to woo global players in latest oil and gas exploration licensing round due to its dim track record of commercial discoveries and sluggish bureaucracy. REUTERS/Amit Dave/FilesReuters - India failed to woo global players in its latest oil and gas exploration licensing round due to its poor track record of commercial discoveries and sluggish bureaucracy, with most of the 33 blocks going to domestic firms.

Protestors and police clash in run-up to India-Pakistan semi (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:05 AM PDT

A policeman hits a protester with a stick near the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali March 28, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek PrakashReuters - Angry protestors clashed with police on Monday outside the stadium in Mohali where India will meet Pakistan in a World Cup semi-final which has captured the imagination of the sub-continent.

India, Pakistan talk in shadow of "cricket diplomacy" (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:55 AM PDT

India's home secretary G. K. Pillai (R) shakes hands with his Pakistani counterpart Chaudhary Qamar Zaman before the start of the Indo-Pak secretary level talks in New Delhi March 28, 2011. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - Indian and Pakistani officials began their first formal peace talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks on Monday in a meeting pushed into the background by the decision of their leaders to meet during a World Cup cricket match between the two countries.

Japan finds plutonium at stricken nuclear plant (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PDT

A handout from Japan Ground Self-Defense Force via Kyodo shows No. 4 reactor at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan March 27, 2011. REUTERS/Japan Ground Self-Defence Force via Kyodo/HandoutReuters - Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's protracted battle to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Jobs, inflation bigger India worries than corruption - Mobius (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:50 AM PDT

Chairman of Franklin Templeton's Emerging Markets Group Mark Mobius speaks during a news conference in Mumbai March 28, 2011. REUTERS/Danish SiddiquiReuters - Veteran emerging markets investor Mark Mobius cited unemployment, inflation and water as key concerns for India but downplayed worries about corruption, which has spooked many investors in the country.

Asia braces for its date with demographic destiny (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PDT

People sit next to a paperboard reading Reuters - If demography is destiny, as the French philosopher Auguste Comte put it, then Asia faces daunting challenges in the coming decades.

India cheers rising tiger numbers amid habitat concerns (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT

India's crime branch officers hold a seized head of a Royal Bengal tiger outside a hotel in Nagpur March 16, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The number of Indian tigers living in the wild rose to 1,706 at the latest count, giving a boost to conservation efforts for the endangered species in the country with the world's largest population of the big cats.

Web site to pay $950,000 for Beatles piracy (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:14 PM PDT

An autographed photo of The Beatles is displayed at an exhibition in Buenos Aires October 4, 2010. REUTERS/Enrique Marcarian/FilesReuters - The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band's EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed on Monday.

Rajaratnam brother removed Galleon records - filings (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PDT

Galleon hedge fund partner Raj Rajaratnam arrives at Manhattan Federal Court for a bail hearing, November 5, 2009. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesReuters - A former Galleon Group trader contends he saw a brother of accused hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam remove notebooks from their office on the day of Rajaratnam's October 2009 arrest, according to trial documents.

Rebels push west before Libya crisis talks (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:53 AM PDT

Rebels travel in a convoy on their way to Sirte city near Bin Jawad March 28, 2011. A steady stream of rebels in 4x4 pick-ups mounted with machineguns drove in the direction of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte on Monday, seeking to extend their advance west. REUTERS/Youssef BoudlalReuters - Rebels advanced towards the birthplace of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday, firing mortars and heavy machineguns in sporadic clashes with loyalist forces.

Highly radioactive water leaks from Japanese nuclear plant (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:08 AM PDT

A public health nurse scans Mitsue Watanabe (unseen), who evacuated from Minamisoma in Fukushima, to test for signs of nuclear radiation at a health center in Yonezawa, northern Japan, 98 km (61 miles) from the Fukushima nuclear plant, March 24, 2011. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

Europe, U.S. converging on Internet privacy (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:39 AM PDT

A student uses her laptop computer on the steps to Memorial Church at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 21, 2009. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/FilesReuters - Few topics are more sensitive for Web users, or more likely to raise concerns in the corridors of Facebook or Google, than how to regulate privacy.

Afridi accuses Indian media of negative campaign (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:23 AM PDT

Pakistan's captain Shahid Afridi wipes his sweat during a cricket practice session ahead of their ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match against India on Wednesday, in Mohali March 28, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi accused the Indian media on Monday of conducting a negative campaign against his team before Wednesday's eagerly anticpated World Cup semi-final in Mohali.

Kashmir army officers expect World Cup to improve ties (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:42 AM PDT

Cricket fans with their faces painted with the Indian and Pakistani national flags pose as they engage in a tug-of-war for a replica of the Cricket World Cup trophy using their teeth, in Hyderabad March 28, 2011. REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - Cricket might succeed where diplomacy failed and mend India's ties with Pakistan, according to some of the Indian army officers posted on the disputed Kashmir border area.

Reuters journalists freed in Syria (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PDT

Burnt buses in the port city of Latakia are seen in this handout photograph released March 27, 2011 by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS/Sana/HandoutReuters - Two Reuters journalists were released by Syrian authorities on Monday, two days after they were detained in Damascus.

India batsmen face off with Pakistan bowlers (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:06 AM PDT

Pakistan's Umar Gul (C) bowls as his teammate Shoaib Akhtar (R) and bowling coach Aqib Javed watch during a cricket practice session ahead of their ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match against India on Wednesday in Mohali March 28, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - India will bank on the stroke-makers while Pakistan will pin hopes on their bowlers in their World Cup semi-final on Wednesday which has gripped the sub-continent's imagination.

Army says Mubarak, family forced to stay in Egypt (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:44 AM PDT

A man reads a local newspaper at Tahrir Square in Cairo March 3, 2011. REUTERS/Peter Andrews/FilesReuters - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family are not allowed to leave the country, the military council to which he handed power on Feb. 11 said on Monday.

Gul says scandal has made team stronger (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:59 AM PDT

Pakistan's Umar Gul warms up during a practice session ahead of their ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match against India in Mohali March 28, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek PrakashReuters - Team unity has helped Pakistan recover from last year's spot-fixing scandal and qualify for the World Cup semi-finals, Pakistan pace bowler Umar Gul said on Moday.

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