2011年6月23日星期四

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


India hopes to build trust with Pakistan as Kashmir talks begin (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:32 AM PDT

Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is seen after her arrival in Islamabad June 23, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - The top diplomats of India and Pakistan held their first formal talks on disputed Kashmir in two-and-a-half years, meeting in Islamabad on Thursday to nudge forward their slow-moving peace process.


India wrap up first test against West Indies (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:51 PM PDT

Reuters - India wrapped up a 63-run victory over West Indies in the first test on the fourth day at Sabina Park on Thursday to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.

Q+A - What next for India's embattled government? (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 05:41 AM PDT

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (L) and Chief of India's ruling Congress party Sonia Gandhi hold up a recently released book titled Reuters - India's coalition government faces one of the biggest challenges of its six-year rule, with protests against graft paralysing policymaking at a time when the economy is slowing down.


Clinton warns Pakistan on U.S. military aid (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 03:12 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gestures as she testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Evaluating Goals and Progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan, on Capitol Hill in Washington June 23, 2011. REUTERS/Yuri GripasReuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Pakistan on Thursday that U.S. military aid could suffer if Islamabad failed to address rising U.S. doubts over its commitment to fighting Islamist militants.


Harry Potter ebooks are on the way, but no sequel (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:50 AM PDT

British author J.K. Rowling arrives for the world premiere of Reuters - The seven Harry Potter novels will be available as ebooks in October, author J.K. Rowling said on Thursday at the launch of a new interactive online website that will allow readers to navigate through the wizard stories.


Ministers' panel may meet in July on fuel pricing (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 01:22 AM PDT

An employee from an Indian gas agency loads a cooking gas cylinder onto a truck in Chennai February 4, 2010. REUTERS/Babu/FilesReuters - A panel of ministers may meet next month to look at raising prices of subsidised fuels, an oil ministry source said on Thursday.


Food price index up 9.13 pct y/y as at June 11 - govt (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 12:02 AM PDT

A boy sits on cages holding chickens at a wholesale poultry market in New Delhi June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - India's food price index rose 9.13 percent and the fuel price index climbed 12.84 percent in the year to June 11, government data showed on Thursday.


Bangladesh court sentences ex-PM's son to jail for graft (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 06:48 AM PDT

Reuters - A Bangladesh court sentenced on Thursday Arafat Rahman Koko, the younger son of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, to six years in prison for laundering $ 2.7 million received as kickbacks from foreign companies, court officials said.

Afghan drawdown creates risk, U.S. military warns (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT

Rosanna Cambron, whose son Arturo is serving in the US military in Iraq, watches U.S. President Barack Obama speak on television, in Long Beach, California June 22, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonReuters - The U.S. military warned on Thursday that President Barack Obama's faster-than-expected drawdown in Afghanistan created new risks, even as commanders backed the strategy to start winding down the unpopular, nearly decade-old war.


Pakistani makes drones for peaceful use but business risky (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 04:20 AM PDT

A supporter of religious and political party Jamaat-e-Islami flashes the victory sign in front of an image of drone, during a rally against drone attacks in Karachi June 4, 2011. REUTERS/Athar Hussain/FilesReuters - In Pakistan's commercial hub, a Pakistani is developing his own drone technology despite security challenges arising from the current political climate and the public anger over the U.S. use of the unmanned aircrafts.


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