2011年6月30日星期四

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

More Indian athletes in doping scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:02 AM PDT

India's Ashwini Akkunji (L-R), Manjeet Kaur, Mandeep Kaur and Sini Jose celebrate winning gold for the women's 4x400 metres relay at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi October 12, 2010. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - A second member of the Indian women's 4x400 metres Asian and Commonwealth Games winning team has failed a dope test, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) said on Thursday.

Fuel inflation accelerates to 8-week high (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:08 AM PDT

An employee counts Indian currency at a fuel station in Mumbai June 25, 2010. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - Fuel inflation hit an eight-week high in mid-June, showing price pressures persisted even before the government's recent increase in diesel prices and suggesting headline inflation in Asia's third-largest economy is headed back towards double-digits even as growth slows.

Govt clears Cairn, Vedanta deal with conditions (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:47 AM PDT

Cairn India employees work at a storage facility for crude oil at Mangala oil field at Barmer in Rajasthan August 29, 2009. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal/FilesReuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) The government said it granted Vedanta Resources conditional approval on Thursday to buy a stake in British oil explorer Cairn Energy's Indian business, in a deal valued at around $6 billion.

Ricciardo set to replace Karthikeyan at Silverstone (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 09:24 AM PDT

HRT Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan of India arrives for the third practice session of the Malaysian F1 Grand Prix at Sepang circuit outside Kuala Lumpur April 9, 2011. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad/FilesReuters - Australia will have two drivers in next week's British Grand Prix with Daniel Ricciardo poised to make his Formula One race debut as replacement for India's Narain Karthikeyan at tail-enders HRT.

Windies dig in to frustrate India (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 10:04 AM PDT

Reuters - Marlon Samuels and Shivnarine Chanderpaul shared a 77-run partnership to inch West Indies towards India's first innings total in the second test in Barbados on Thursday.

Monsoon rains ease in predicted lull (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:16 AM PDT

A man takes cover from rain under an umbrella in front of a food stall during sudden downpour in Kochi June 24, 2011. REUTERS/Sivaram V/FilesReuters - India's key monsoon rains were 10 percent above normal in the past week to June 29, slowing from 23 percent above average the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday, and could slow further next week, a source in the weather office said.

Botched replay led to Dhoni dismissal - ICC (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:29 AM PDT

Reuters - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was incorrectly given out during the second test against West Indies because the television broadcaster showed the wrong replay to the review umpire, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Thursday.

Harry Potter to cast final spell with 8th, last film (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:29 AM PDT

Actors (L-R) Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Tom Felton pose at the premiere of Reuters - As the studio behind the Harry Potter films likes to remind us, "It all ends here".

Greek lawmakers back reforms, clear way for more aid (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 08:44 AM PDT

Protesters attack a policeman during violent protests around Syntagma square in Athens June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Yiorgos KarahalisReuters - The Greek parliament approved detailed austerity and privatisation bills on Thursday in a crucial vote to secure emergency funds and avert imminent bankruptcy, but longer-term dangers still lurk.

Chicken pox and wax dilemma inspires novel on Indian TV (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 12:43 AM PDT

A model walks the runway during the Carolina Herrera collection show at New York Fashion Week February 16, 2009. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/FilesReuters - Expletive-mouthing executives obsessed with PowerPoint presentations, an incoherent female talk show host with "thunder thighs" and a prime-time news anchor desperate for a knockout story that will hold India's attention.

Bangladesh scraps caretaker govt system for polls (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 06:04 AM PDT

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina speaks during the 64th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 26, 2009. REUTERS/Patrick Andrade/FilesReuters - Bangladesh on Thursday scrapped a system of holding national elections under a non-partisan caretaker administration that was introduced in the mid-1990s to try to end the violence and fraud that have often marred voting in the South Asian country.

May infrastructure output up 5.3 pct y/y - govt (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:56 AM PDT

Labourers work at the site of a residential estate under construction in Kolkata January 31, 2011. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - India's infrastructure sector output grew 5.3 percent in May from a year earlier, slightly faster than an annual growth of 5.2 percent in April, government data showed on Thursday.

Federer cut down by inspired Tsonga (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:16 PM PDT

Roger Federer of Switzerland wipes his forehead during his quarter-final match against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleReuters - Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga shredded the Wimbledon script with a devastating fightback to knock six-times champion Roger Federer out on Wednesday and clinch a semi-final showdown against Novak Djokovic.

Cairn, Vedanta deal with conditions - minister (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 07:49 AM PDT

Cairn India employees work at a storage facility for crude oil at Mangala oil field at Barmer in Rajasthan August 29, 2009. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal/FilesReuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) The cabinet on Thursday granted conditional approval to Vedanta Resources' plan to buy British oil explorer Cairn Energy's Indian assets, union minister Krishna Tirath said.

Magnitude 5.4 quake hits central Japan, 7 injured (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 07:33 PM PDT

Reuters - A magnitude 5.4 earthquake hit central Japan and injured seven people on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.

PM Singh fails to dispel policy paralysis fears (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 09:26 PM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speaks at a joint news conference during the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in Sanya, on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, April 14, 2011. REUTERS/Press Information Bureau of India/Handout/FilesReuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh brushed aside on Wednesday widespread accusations that he was a "lame duck" leader presiding over a government mired in graft and policy paralysis, but offered little concrete in way of policy steps he would take up.

Dangers lurk beyond Greek parliament vote (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Jun 2011 04:04 AM PDT

A protester taunts police in front of the parliament during violent protests in Athens' Syntagma square, June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Yannis BehrakisReuters - The Greek parliament was set to approve detailed austerity and privatisation bills on Thursday to secure emergency funds and avert imminent bankruptcy, but longer-term dangers still lurk.

ANALYSIS - Fast fashion catches consumer fancy in Asia (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PDT

Women choose clothes at a Zara shop in Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok June 29, 2011. REUTERS/Chaiwat SubprasomReuters - As pop music blares from a Zara store in Bangkok, Suthip Nanthavong jostles with others for bargains that might disappear in days -- from stylish thin-strap t-shirts selling for 490 baht ($16) to racks of blue-denim jeans.

Asia looks to "friend" Lagarde to honour IMF pledges (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 08:16 PM PDT

Christine Lagarde makes a statement to reporters as she leaves the IMF headquarters in Washington, June 23, 2011. The IMF board on Tuesday elected French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as the new managing director of the global lender. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstReuters - Asia's fast-rising economies set their sights on securing key IMF posts under new chief Christine Lagarde, hopeful she would be the one to make good on oft-heard pledges to give more power to emerging markets.

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