2011年4月11日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Rajaratnam ran a tight ship at Galleon - witness (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 04:18 PM PDT

Lloyd Blankfein, (L) Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive, is seen in this courtroom sketch testifying in Manhattan Federal Court as Raj Rajaratnam (R) looks on during his insider trading case in New York March 23, 2011. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/FilesReuters - Raj Rajaratnam demanded discipline at his Galleon hedge fund, fined late-comers to his morning meetings $25 and never asked any company for inside information, one of his former top lieutenants testified.


HSBC U.S. client pleads guilty to offshore tax dodge (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 02:42 PM PDT

A man speaks on a mobile phone in front of the head office of HSBC bank in Mumbai November 20, 2008. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - An HSBC client pleaded guilty on Monday to offshore tax evasion, in a widening U.S. government probe of banks that may help tax dodgers.


Transocean drills in record water depth off India (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 02:31 PM PDT

Reuters - A rig owned by Transocean Ltd has drilled in the deepest-ever water depth off India, eclipsing a record set eight years before in the Gulf of Mexico, the company said on Monday.

Apple's Steve Jobs' life story due in 2012 (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:48 AM PDT

Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs introduces the iPad 2 on stage during an Apple event in San Francisco, California March 2, 2011. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach/FilesReuters - Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs will allow best-selling author Walter Isaacson, who chronicled the lives of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, to publish his biography next year.


Kallis powers Knight Riders to victory in IPL (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:02 PM PDT

Reuters - South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis notched his second successive half-century to power Kolkata Knight Riders to a nine-run victory over Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday.

Monsoon meet likely to forecast near-normal rains (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:42 AM PDT

Women carry fodder against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in the evening on the outskirts of Jammu September 9, 2010. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/FilesReuters - Global experts meeting this week are likely to forecast a near-normal monsoon for India, providing international commodities market the first hints of demand and supply in 2011/12 from one of the world's top producers and consumers of key farm goods.


Sibal says M&A norms for telcos need to be liberal (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 03:06 AM PDT

File photo of Kapil Sibal attending a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 31, 2009. REUTERS/Pascal Lauener/FilesReuters - Merger and acquisition rules in the telecoms sector should be relaxed, Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal said on Monday, a move that would help consolidation in the crowded market.


Bharti, Aircel to launch Apple's iPhone 4 in India (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 05:28 AM PDT

Customers pack a Verizon Wireless store in New York to buy the iPhone 4 shortly after the phone went on sale with Verizon service in New York, February 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Segar/FilesReuters - Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's top mobile phone carrier, and its smaller rival Aircel separately said on Monday they would launch Apple's iPhone 4 in India in the coming months.


Inflation, oil prices new risks to global economy - IMF (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:07 AM PDT

Consumers select vegetables at a supermarket in Hefei, Anhui province March 11, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - Soaring oil prices and inflation in emerging economies pose new risks to global recovery but are not yet strong enough to derail it, the International Monetary Fund said on Monday.


France starts ban on full-face veil (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:37 AM PDT

Muslim women take part in a demonstration by the Islamic political party Hizb ut-Tahrir against France's banning of full face veils from public spaces, outside the French Embassy in London September 25, 2010. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/FilesReuters - France's ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force on Monday, making anyone wearing the Muslim niqab or burqa in public liable to a fine of 150 euros ($216) or lessons in French citizenship.


Libyan rebels reject African Union peace plan (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 10:19 AM PDT

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gestures, as he is surrounded by members of the media, after a meeting with a delegation of five African leaders at his Bab al-Aziziyah compound in Tripoli April 10, 2011. REUTERS/Zohra BensemraReuters - Libyan rebels swiftly rejected an African Union peace initiative on Monday, saying there could be no deal to end a two-month-old civil war unless Muammar Gaddafi left power.


Japan expands nuclear evacuation, stops radiated water dumping (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:37 AM PDT

Police officers in protective suits observe a moment of silence for those who were killed by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, as they search for bodies at a destroyed area in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, about 18km from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant, April 11, 2011.  REUTERS/Kim Kyung-HoonReuters - Japan expanded the evacuation zone around a crippled nuclear plant to avoid exposing residents to high levels of accumulated radiation, as the struggle to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl entered its second month.


Arsenal agrees to $1.2 billion takeover by Kroenke (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 03:38 AM PDT

Arsenal's Samir Nasri (R) evades a tackle from Blackburn Rovers' Jermaine Jones during their English Premier League soccer match at the Emirates Stadium in London April 2, 2011. REUTERS/Eddie KeoghReuters - Arsenal is poised to become the fifth Premier League club to have an American owner after sports tycoon Stan Kroenke agreed a deal for a takeover that values the soccer club at 731 million pounds ($1.2 billion).


U.S. fast-food chains bet on India to drive growth (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 08:05 AM PDT

A sign shows Yum Brands Inc's support center at its corporate headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky January 18, 2011. REUTERS/John Sommers II/FilesReuters - The scramble by global food companies into India's fast food sector intensified on Monday as several U.S. chains announced plans to enter the country, hoping to tap the surging spending power in Asia's third-largest economy.


Q+A - India's normal monsoon progress, impact (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:10 AM PDT

Girls walk on a seaside promenade as it rains in Mumbai July 3, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - The chance of a normal southwest monsoon for a second straight year in 2011 has raised hopes of higher farm output in India that could tame high food prices and help persuade the government to free rice and wheat exports.


Iran econ minister says India oil payment row solved (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 04:21 AM PDT

Shamseddin Hosseini, Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance, attends a seminar on Investment Opportunities in Iran, in New Delhi July 8, 2010. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - Iran's economy minister said on Monday a dispute with India over payments for Iranian crude oil had been resolved, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.


FACTBOX - India monsoon and impact on economy (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 06:10 AM PDT

People hold umbrellas at a sea front off the coast of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai November 11, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - India's June-September monsoon rains are a key factor for global commodities markets as they influence output of various crops in India, which is among the world's leading producers and consumers of wheat, rice, sugar and edible oils.


Politics to temper "BRICS" broader ambitions (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 01:30 AM PDT

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev (L-R), Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da SIlva, China's President Hu Jintao and India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attend a photocall at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia April 15, 2010. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/FilesReuters - When Indian media reported recently that Chinese troops were in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, the response from China was vehement.


Scientists find way to map brain's complexity (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 10:09 PM PDT

An undated image of the human brain taken through scanning technology. REUTERS/Sage Center for the Study of the Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara/Handout/FilesReuters - Scientists say they have moved a step closer to developing a computer model of the brain after finding a way to map both the connections and functions of nerve cells in the brain together for the first time.


Rajaratnam defence to present its case for NY jury (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Apr 2011 09:29 PM PDT

Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam arrives at Federal Court in New York March 28, 2011. REUETRS/Mike SegarReuters - Now it is hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam's lawyers' turn to make their case at his insider trading trial on Monday that the government was wrong to accuse him of conspiracy and fraud.


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