2011年4月26日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


CBI court sends Suresh Kalmadi into police custody (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:34 AM PDT

Suresh Kalmadi (C), former chief organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, arrives at a court in New Delhi April 26, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan SharmaReuters - A CBI court ordered Suresh Kalmadi, the former chief organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, into police custody on Tuesday as authorities stepped up a crackdown on businesses and government officials in a string of corruption cases to hit the country.


Rajaratnam jury asks to hear phone tap replays (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 03:28 PM PDT

Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam leaves Manhattan Federal Court in New York April 20, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesReuters - The jury in hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam's trial asked to listen to replays of phone taps that prosecutors consider to be the centerpiece of Wall Street's biggest insider trading case in a generation.


Kohli fashions third win for Bangalore with a fifty (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 12:42 PM PDT

A policeman stands guard at one of the entrances to a cricket stadium during a match in IPL tournament in Kolkata April 19, 2010. REUTERS/Parth SanyalReuters - Virat Kohli hit a stroke-filled 56 to power Royal Challengers Bangalore to a three-wicket victory against Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday.


Govt pledges Jaitapur nuclear plant safety amid Japan crisis fears (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:19 AM PDT

A man walks past a billboard depicting the Fukushima nuclear disaster and opposing the construction of a nuclear plant in the area, at Madhban village near the proposed site of the Jaitapur nuclear plant in Ratnagiri district, about 360 km (224 miles) south of Mumbai, April 13, 2011. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - India will tighten safety systems at the proposed $10 billion nuclear plant in Jaitapur, potentially the world's largest, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday, after protests against the plan turned violent in recent weeks following last month's nuclear disaster in Japan.


Pakistan defends spy agency ISI, rejects criticism (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:01 AM PDT

Pakistan's Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik speaks during a news conference in Islamabad March 9, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - Pakistan's interior minister strongly defended the country's top spy agency on Tuesday after the publication of leaked documents revealed the U.S. military classified it as a terrorist support entity.


Supreme Court allows Delhi Airport to charge development fee (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 08:11 AM PDT

An airport staff employee stands inside the T3 terminal of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi July 15, 2010. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - The Supreme Court has allowed Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) to continue charging airport development fee as per the approval granted to DIAL by the Airport Economic Regulatory Authority, according to a statement by the GMR Group.


S.Lanka rejects 'unofficial' U.N. war crimes report (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 09:31 AM PDT

A police officer looks on during a petition signing in front of a picture showing Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing a U.N. conference, in Colombo April 21, 2011. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteReuters - Sri Lanka on Tuesday rejected a report ordered by the U.N. chief blaming it for thousands of civilian deaths at end of its civil war, and said it can defend itself should the world body formally take up the accusations.


FACTBOX - Charges filed in 2G graft case (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 06:10 AM PDT

India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials carry the 2G spectrum case charge sheet to a court in New Delhi April 2, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma/FilesReuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) have indicted former telecoms minister Andimuthu Raja, Dravidra Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) party MP Kanimozhi and several firms and executives in the country's biggest ever graft case, charging them with a range of crimes aimed at rigging the grants of lucrative telecoms licences.


Power Finance $1.2 bln issue on May 10 - sources (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 02:01 AM PDT

A homeless woman heats herself with a fire between two high voltage cables to be laid underground in New Delhi on January 11, 2006. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan/FilesReuters - Power Finance Corporation Ltd will launch its share sale on May 10, four sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, marking a deal that could raise up to $1.2 billion in the largest equity issue this year.


Sony chases Apple with launch of Android tablet (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:35 AM PDT

Men stand behind a logo of Sony Corp at an electronics shop in Tokyo November 20, 2009.  REUTERS/Toru Hanai/FilesReuters - Sony launched its first tablet computers on Tuesday in an ambitious attempt to grab the No.2 spot from Samsung in a fast-growing market dominated by Apple's year-old iPad.


Breakthrough unlikely in Pakistan-India trade talks (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:39 AM PDT

Pakistani rangers stand near the Indian (R) and Pakistani national flags during an annual fair near Pakistan border in Chamliyal, 45 km (28 miles) west of Jammu, June 26, 2008. REUTERS/Amit Gupta/FilesReuters - Top trade officials from Pakistan and India will open two days of talks on Wednesday to push commercial ties, as the nuclear-armed rivals seek to build on goodwill from last month's successful bout of "cricket diplomacy".


Delhi High Court to resume 2G trial bail hearing Friday (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 04:28 AM PDT

Gautam Doshi, a group managing director of Reliance ADA group, leaves a court in New Delhi April 15, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - The Delhi High Court said on Tuesday it will resume on April 29 a hearing for bail applications of five business executives charged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the multi-billion dollar telecoms licensing scandal.


Govt to decide on wheat exports next week - food minister (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 01:39 AM PDT

A labourer works on a heap of wheat inside a grain-sorting unit at Sanand in Gujarat April 7, 2011.REUTERS/Amit Dave/FilesReuters - A panel of ministers will decide next week whether to allow export of wheat, Food Minister K.V. Thomas said on Tuesday.


Food prices could push millions into poverty - ADB (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 11:08 PM PDT

Labourers prepare to carry a basket containing wholesale vegetables weighing 400 kg to a market in Kolkata May 6, 2008. Surging food prices could push millions of people in Asia into extreme poverty and threaten the durability of the region's world-leading economic recovery, the Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/FilesReuters - Surging food prices could push millions of people in Asia into extreme poverty and threaten the durability of the region's world-leading economic recovery, the Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday.


Taliban attack two navy buses in Karachi, 4 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 05:14 AM PDT

Paramilitary solders stand guard at the scene of an explosion in Karachi April 26, 2011.  REUTERS/Athar HussainReuters - Taliban militants attacked two buses carrying navy officials in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding 56, officials said, the first major attack on the military in the city in seven years.


Obama camapign pushes underdog spirit for 2012 (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:09 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Chicago April 14, 2011.  REUTERS/Jason Reed/FilesReuters - Think insurgent, not incumbent for Barack Obama in 2012.


POLL - RBI rate rise expectations grow on inflation worries (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Apr 2011 12:44 AM PDT

A worker prepares sacks of grain at a wholesale market at Dadri in  Uttar Pradesh August 16, 2010. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma/FilesReuters - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is seen raising rates by a quarter point on May 3 and analysts now expect it to raise rates by a total of 75 basis points for the rest of 2011, or 25 bps more than they expected in mid-March, a new Reuters poll found.


Lindsay Lohan to appear on 'Tonight Show' (Reuters)

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 08:07 PM PDT

Actress Lindsay Lohan (L), with her attorney Shawn Chapman Holley, appears in Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles March 10, 2011. REUTERS/David McNew/Pool/FilesReuters - Lindsay Lohan, fresh from her latest stint in jail, will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Tuesday, NBC said.


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