Rajaratnam ran a tight ship at Galleon - witness (Reuters) Posted: 11 Apr 2011 04:18 PM PDT Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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. |