Swami Ramdev anti-graft fast gains momentum (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:36 AM PDT Reuters - The government suffered a fresh blow on Thursday in containing growing anger over corruption from million of voters as leading civil activist Anna Hazare joined forces with influential yoga guru Swami Ramdev in a "fast-until-death" against graft. |
FACTBOX - Swami Ramdev, India's most popular yoga guru (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:05 AM PDT Reuters - India's government suffered a fresh blow in containing growing anger over corruption from million of voters as Swami Ramdev, the country's most famous yoga guru, gained the support of a leading civil activist for his "fast-until-death" against graft. |
U.S. weighs security after "serious" Google allegation (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:03 PM PDT Reuters - Washington scrambled on Thursday to assess whether security had been compromised after Google Inc revealed a major hacker attack targeting U.S. officials that the Internet giant pegged to China. |
Suicides shed light on darker side of Dubai's glitz (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:13 AM PDT Reuters - Indian labourer Athiraman Kannan kept to his routine in the hours before he jumped off the world's tallest building. |
Monsoon on track as weekly rains rise (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:19 AM PDT Reuters - India's monsoon rains were 12 percent above normal in the week to June 1, the weather office said on Thursday, after hitting the southern coast two days ahead of expectations, with coffee and rubber crops potentially benefiting. |
Bahrain wary of protests before Formula One ruling (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:02 AM PDT Reuters - Bahrain, eager for Formula One organisers to reinstate a motor race postponed after popular protests erupted in February, acted to prevent any unrest on Thursday after lifting martial law earlier in the week. |
Paternal smoking linked to menopause age in daughters (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 09:31 AM PDT Reuters - If men smoke when their partners are pregnant, their daughters may end up reaching menopause about a year earlier than their peers, according to a study. |
Asia Views - A reminder of the hunger that haunts India (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 11:45 AM PDT Reuters - For many of us living in urban India, it can be hard to beileve that people starve in this country. |
Economy may grow 8.5 pct in FY12 - econ adviser (Reuters) Posted: 01 Jun 2011 09:40 PM PDT Reuters - The economy may grow at 8.5 percent in the current fiscal year and all tools must be used to cut inflation to 4-5 percent, the chairman of the prime minister's economic advisory council, C. Rangarajan, said on Thursday. |
Remove barriers to India, other nations going low-carbon - study (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 05:57 AM PDT Reuters - Barriers preventing the transfer of clean technologies to help nations like India adopt low-carbon development must be removed if the world is to successfully address climate change, a new study has warned. |
Gazprom to boost gas to India from 2016-18 - source (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 02:55 AM PDT Reuters - Gazprom is set to start increasing deliveries of liquefied natural gas to India starting from 2016-2018, a source close to the Russian gas export monopoly told Reuters on Thursday. |
Sun TV plunges on telecoms lawsuit (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:50 AM PDT Reuters - Shares in broadcaster Sun TV fell more than 31 percent on Thursday after media reports said the founder's brother, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran, was named in a lawsuit related to the telecoms probe, further embarassing a coalition government mired in a series of scandals. |
May 21 food price index up 8.06 pct y/y vs 8.55 pct week ago - govt (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:03 AM PDT Reuters - The food price index rose 8.06 percent in the year to May 21, government data showed on Thursday, slowing down from an annual rise of 8.55 percent a week ago. |