India bans Japan food imports, says radiation spreading (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:42 AM PDT Reuters - India has imposed a three-month ban on imports of food articles from the whole of Japan on fears that radiation from an earthquake-hit nuclear plant was spreading to other parts of the country, becoming the first country to introduce a blanket ban. |
Satyam, PwC settle SEC probes into fraud (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:09 PM PDT Reuters - Satyam Computer Services Ltd and its former auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers agreed to pay a combined $17.5 million to settle U.S. probes into an accounting fraud that in 2009 became India's biggest corporate scandal. |
Anil Ambani faces parliament panel in telecom probe (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 08:12 AM PDT Reuters - Anil Ambani, the chairman of Reliance ADA group, appeared on Tuesday before a parliamentary panel investigating a multi-billion dollar telecoms graft scandal that has rocked the country's political and business establishment. |
IMF endorses capital controls amid political rifts (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:09 PM PDT Reuters - The IMF's first-ever endorsement of capital controls, contained in a document released on Tuesday, has exposed internal tensions so sensitive that some member countries even objected to the title. |
Hunger strike over Lokpal Bill as thousands protest corruption (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 08:00 AM PDT Reuters - Social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday began a fast unto death demanding the government enact a tough anti-corruption law that would lead to prosecution of officials and lawmakers. |
FBI agent tallies Rajaratnam trades for jury (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:12 PM PDT Reuters - Trade-by-trade and sometimes using a calculator, an FBI agent testified at hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam's insider trading trial how the government matched phone records with transactions that it contends were based on illegal confidential information. |
Tiger talks up his own chances at Augusta National (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:09 PM PDT Reuters - Tiger Woods was gracious, smiling, on a few occasions monosyllabic and prickly, but above all positive as he discussed his bid for a fifth Masters title at Augusta National this week. |
Schalke and Real eye semis after goal frenzy (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 04:12 PM PDT Reuters - Schalke 04 were the unlikely trailblazers on a night of 11 Champions League goals when they thumped Inter Milan 5-2 to become the first team ever to score five in one match against the reigning European Cup holders. |
Vedanta expects Cairn deal approval in few days (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 10:03 AM PDT Reuters - Vedanta Resources expects the Indian government to approve its long-pending deal to take control of Cairn India in the next few days, its chairman said, adding that the issue of royalty payments should be treated separately. |
Sangakkara quits as Sri Lanka ODI, T20 captain (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:06 AM PDT Reuters - Kumar Sangakkara has stood down as captain of Sri Lanka's limited overs team after their World Cup final loss to India on Saturday but plans to carry on as the interim test skipper until a replacement is found. |
Maruti raises prices between 1,100-9,000 rupees (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 04:42 AM PDT Reuters - Maruti Suzuki, India's largest car maker, has raised prices between 1,100 to 9,000 rupees ($25-$203) across all models, a company spokesman said on Tuesday, its second price increase in three months. |
Iran-India oil trade halted in Germany (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 09:38 AM PDT Reuters - India has agreed to stop paying for its Iranian oil imports via Germany, a German official said on Tuesday, ending a trade conduit that had drawn strong disapproval from the United States and Israel. |
Britain's Cameron in Pakistan seeking "fresh start" (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 06:30 AM PDT Reuters - British Prime Minister David Cameron called for a new start in relations with Pakistan on Tuesday, eight months after sparking a diplomatic row by saying Pakistan should not be allowed to "look both ways" on terrorism. |
Bangladesh court rejects Yunus appeal against dismissal (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 02:32 AM PDT Reuters - Bangladesh's highest court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus against his dismissal as managing director of Grameen Bank, the microlender he founded, lawyers said. |
Schwarzenegger says owes success to U.S., people's touch (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:21 AM PDT Reuters - To hear Arnold Schwarzenegger explain the unlikely course of his life as an actor and politician, success boils down to two factors: living in the United States and being a man of the people. |
Japan's nuclear plant operator pays "condolence money" (Reuters) Posted: 04 Apr 2011 10:55 PM PDT Reuters - The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant started paying "condolence money" on Tuesday to victims of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl while it kept pouring radioactive water into the sea. |
Paris sewers to heat schools, president's palace (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2011 03:08 AM PDT Reuters - The Paris sewers -- whose murky labyrinths have been reviled and romanticized through history -- are at the centre of a renewable energy experiment to harness heat for buildings, including the presidential palace. |