2011年6月24日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Pakistan, India seek to lower nuclear fears (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 09:48 AM PDT

Pakistani Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir (R) shakes hands with his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao before a meeting at the Pakistan Foreign Ministry in Islamabad June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Aamir Qureshi/PoolReuters - Pakistan and India agreed on Friday to try to ease fears about their nuclear arsenals, in unexpectedly positive talks between the two countries' top diplomats.


Monsoon to enter lull phase next week - sources (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:15 AM PDT

An 18-year-old who gave his name as Reuters - India's monsoon rains are likely to ease next week, sources in the state-run weather office said on Friday, raising concerns there could be a slowdown in planting of crops such as cane, rice, cotton and oilseeds.


Govt raises diesel prices to ease subsidy burden (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Workers fill diesel in plastic containers at a fuel station in Noida in Uttar Pradesh January 27, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma/FilesReuters - India raised diesel prices about 9 percent on Friday after months of delay, a politically unpopular move that will add to inflationary pressure but also eases the government's subsidy burden and could bolster its image among wary investors.


Sri Lanka's Tharanga gets three-month doping ban (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Sri Lanka's Upul Tharanga plays a shot during the second one-day international cricket match against New Zealand in the tri-series in Dambulla August 13, 2010.  REUTERS/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/FilesReuters - Sri Lankan opening batsman Upul Tharanga has been suspended for three months after failing a doping test, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Friday.


Bollywood stars cast spell over Toronto (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 03:24 PM PDT

Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan arrives at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto June 24, 2011. The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards will be held in Toronto on Saturday. REUTERS/Mark BlinchReuters - They may not be as familiar to North American movie fans as Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie, but Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Bipashu Basu, Celina Jaitley and other Bollywood stars are getting a lot of second looks in Toronto in recent days.


Men savvier networkers than women - study (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:04 PM PDT

City workers cross London Bridge during the morning rush hour, in London April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Toby Melville/FilesReuters - When it comes to professional networking, men around the world are savvier than women, according to new data.


BCCI adamant Indians will not play in Lanka T20 league (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 07:42 AM PDT

A policeman walks past a logo of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at BCCI headquarters in Mumbai April 26, 2010. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - The inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League will go ahead next month without the Indian cricketers after talks failed with the Indian board (BCCI), Sri Lankan sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage told Reuters on Friday.


Pakistan army rejects report on bin Laden's cell-phone (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:05 AM PDT

A roadside vendor sells newspapers with headlines about the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in Lahore May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/FilesReuters - The Pakistan army condemned on Friday a report in the New York Times that a cell phone found in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contained contacts to a militant group with ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency.


ICC to discuss change in chief selection process (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 03:15 AM PDT

The International Cricket Council (ICC) logo at the ICC headquarters in Dubai, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Nikhil Monteiro/FilesReuters - The International Cricket Council (ICC) will discuss constitutional amendments to abolish the rotational policy of appointing its head and avoid "government interference" in the game's administration at next week's conference in Hong Kong.


Welcome to POSCO country: India's fight for investors (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:13 AM PDT

A man walks past a logo of steelmaker POSCO at the company's headquarters in Seoul October 25, 2010. REUTERS/Truth Leem/FilesReuters - For eight-year-old Rakesh Bardhan, it is protest time.


Sensex surges over 500 pts on global cues, Greece (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 04:37 AM PDT

A road sign stands next to the Bombay Stock Exchange building (R) in Mumbai, August 3, 2005. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) The BSE Sensex logged its first weekly gain in three weeks, rising 2.9 percent on Friday, with support from global markets that displayed some relief after Greece reached an agreement for an austerity plan to avoid a debt default.


Nepal shelter for ostracised gays a sign of change (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 10:29 PM PDT

Reuters - The first ever shelter for ostracised gays has opened in Nepal -- a growing sign, say activists, that the impoverished, conservative Himalayan nation is becoming more aware of the rights of its gay population.

Govt hikes diesel prices by 3 rupees/litre - sources (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Workers fill diesel in plastic containers at a fuel station in Noida in Uttar Pradesh January 27, 2011. REUTERS/Parivartan Sharma/FilesReuters - India has raised diesel prices by 3 Indian rupees ($0.07) per litre, two government sources said on Friday after a ministerial panel ended a meeting to decide on the hikes, a move that could stoke inflation that is already at uncomfortable levels.


ANALYSIS - Pakistan army chief shows no signs of quitting soon (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:54 AM PDT

Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani reviews a Sri Lankan Air Force honor guard in Colombo in this January 20, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - At the height of the storm which swept Pakistan after the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden, army chief General Ashfaq Kayani spoke for 1-1/2 hours, then told his officers they could ask whatever they wanted, and lit a cigarette.


ANALYSIS - Indian slowdown, high inflation likely to persist (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:55 PM PDT

A vegetable seller reads a newspaper as he waits for customers at a market in Kolkata September 9, 2010. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - India's growth story, which has excited many in recent years, is passing through a not-very-happy chapter that might last well into 2012.


Govt likely to take political plunge, hike diesel prices (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 02:21 AM PDT

A worker fills plastic containers with diesel at a fuel station in Kolkata March 3, 2011. India is expected to take advantage of a plunge in global crude prices to raise fuel prices on Friday after months of delaying a politically unpopular decision that will add to inflation but ease a rising subsidy burden. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - The government was expected to raise diesel prices on Friday, although a delay in a government meeting to decide on the politically unpopular decision raised questions as to whether or not officials were in full agreement.


Phone gives clues to bin Laden's Pakistan links - NYT (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 09:36 PM PDT

A South Korean man walks past a TV screen showing news that a U.S.-led operation had killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, at Seoul railway station in Seoul May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/FilesReuters - A cell phone found in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan contained contacts to a militant group with ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing senior U.S. officials briefed on the findings.


Banning "light" on cigarette packs does little (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:00 AM PDT

A man smokes a cigarette in Beijing August 18, 2010. More and more nations are banning the words Reuters - More and more nations are banning the words "light" and "mild" from cigarette packs, but this may not be enough to dispel smokers' misbeliefs that the products are safer, according to a study.


Govt defers fuel price hike meet to evening as it mulls options (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Jun 2011 01:54 AM PDT

A man walks past gas cylinders loaded on a cart in Mumbai June 7, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - India has deferred a ministerial meeting to decide on raising diesel and cooking fuel prices to 7 p.m. as the government is working on its options, Oil Minister Jaipal Reddy said on Friday.


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