2011年7月21日星期四

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Police widen probe into cash-for-votes scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:34 AM PDT

A video grab shows India's opposition lawmakers displaying wads of cash they said were offered as bribes to abstain from voting during a two-day debate inside the parliament in New Delhi July 22, 2008. REUTERS/ANI/FilesReuters - Police widened their probe into charges some opposition lawmakers were bribed in 2008 to vote for the Congress party-led government in a confidence vote, as prosecutors prepared on Thursday to oppose the bail plea of one of those accused.


Musharraf says Pakistan not complicit on bin Laden (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf speaks during an interview with Reuters in Dubai, May 2, 2011. REUTERS/Jumana El-Heloueh/FilesReuters - Pakistan's exiled former President Pervez Musharraf said on Thursday that "absolute negligence and not complicity" was behind his country's Osama bin Laden fiasco and Washington and Islamabad must put that episode behind them and rebuild trust.


War over, fear still stalks polls in north Sri Lanka (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:59 AM PDT

A Tamil woman collects water from a well on which political posters had been pasted ahead of local government election in Killinochchi July 21, 2011. Elections will be held in the North on Saturday. REUTERS/Dinuka LiyanawatteReuters - Sri Lanka's northern cities hold local polls for the first time in many years on Saturday and though the civil war is over, fear and intimidation remain rife, poll monitors and opposition politicians say.


Pakistan, Afghanistan must end border incursions - PM (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:18 AM PDT

A journalist stands to ask a question during a news conference with Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani (R) and Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the prime minister's residence in Islamabad June 11, 2011. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood/FilesReuters - Pakistan and Afghanistan must redouble efforts to end fighting along their border to prevent this jeopardising an improvement in relations, Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Thursday.


England take early honours at Lord's (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 11:15 AM PDT

India's Zaheer Khan appeals to umpire Asad Rauf and dismisses England's Alastair Cook (not in picture) lbw for 12 during the first cricket test match at Lord's cricket ground in London July 21, 2011. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - England took the early honours in the first test against India at Lord's on Thursday before the rain which blighted the series against Sri Lanka again had the final say.


Monsoon rains improve in past week (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:29 AM PDT

A farmer works in his paddy field against the backdrop of monsoon clouds in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala July 23, 2010. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/FilesReuters - India's key monsoon rains were 7 percent above normal in the week to July 20, snapping a two-week negative trend, the weather office said on Thursday, but weak rains in rice-growing eastern region have dampened the main summer crop's output prospects.


India may avoid diesel hike in 2011 as polls, inflation loom (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:20 PM PDT

A driver of a diesel tanker walks outside an oil depot in New Delhi December 31, 2010. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - The government is unlikely to risk raising, or even deregulating, diesel prices again this year, allowing demand to expand, as concerns over inflation and state elections eclipse the need to cut spending and keep pace with global oil prices.


Atlantis has landed, ending NASA's shuttle era (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:49 AM PDT

The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis (L-R) Commander Chris Ferguson, Sandy Magnus, Rex Walheim and Pilot Doug Hurley wave farewell at the end of the last crew news conference from aboard a shuttle in this image from NASA TV July 20, 2011.     REUTERS/NASA TV/HandoutReuters - The space shuttle Atlantis returned from NASA's final shuttle mission on Thursday, ending a 30-year era that opened the space frontier, exposed its dangers and established a toehold for future endeavors beyond Earth.


India's "recycled" school teaches environmental lessons (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 10:32 AM PDT

A student wearing a pink dress enters a classroom through a miniature door constructed specially for children at the Aman Setu school in Pune July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek PrakashReuters - On a regular school day, four-year-old Kush Bhattacharya can leave his mathematics class to run barefoot on grass, hide from his friends in a cave made of cow dung and return to recite nursery rhymes in a red bus that doubles up as a classroom.


Karun Chandhok replaces Trulli in Germany (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:01 AM PDT

Lotus Formula One reserve driver Karun Chandhok of India poses for photographers ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne March 24, 2011.  REUTERS/Daniel Munoz/FilesReuters - India's Karun Chandhok will replace Jarno Trulli for Team Lotus at this weekend's German Grand Prix as the outfit continue their bid for a first ever Formula One point.


Apple guns for Exxon as king of stocks (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:54 PM PDT

A boy looks at an Apple iMac desktop computer at the new Apple Store in Pudong Lujiazui, in Shanghai July 10, 2010.  REUTERS/Aly Song/FilesReuters - Apple Inc is within sight of catching up with Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company in the world.


Food inflation at 7.58 pct y/y as at July 9 - govt (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:00 AM PDT

A customer shops inside a grocery store in Lucknow January 19, 2011. India's food price index rose 7.58 percent and the fuel price index climbed 11.89 percent in the year to July 9, government data on Thursday showed. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar/FilesReuters - India's food price index rose 7.58 percent and the fuel price index climbed 11.89 percent in the year to July 9, government data on Thursday showed.


INTERVIEW - Indian soccer coach rues grassroots deficiencies (Reuters)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:40 AM PDT

Reuters - The term 'sleeping giant' is often used to describe Indian soccer and its massive potential talent pool, but national team coach Armando Colaco thinks officials have to wake up to the problems at grassroots level if India are to ever play in the World Cup finals.

U.S. charges two for illegal lobbying for Pakistan over Kashmir (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:01 PM PDT

Reuters - Two U.S. citizens have been charged with illegally lobbying the United States for the Pakistani government and its spy agency over the disputed territory of Kashmir, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday.

Tendulkar could reach 100th hundred in 2,000th test (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 07:49 PM PDT

India's Sachin Tendulkar (R) applies tape to his fingers after a training session ahead of Thursday's first cricket test match against England at Lord's cricket ground in London July 20, 2011. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - Sachin Tendulkar has the opportunity to mark the 2,000 test match with an unprecedented 100th international century in the opening test between England and India at Lord's starting on Thursday.


Tiger Woods shocks caddie with decision to part ways (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:41 PM PDT

Tiger Woods (R) of the U.S. talks with his caddie Steve Williams (L) on the fourth tee during second round play in the 2011 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia, April 8, 2011. REUTERS/Hans Deryk/FilesReuters - Tiger Woods has decided to part company with longtime caddie Steve Williams, a move that took the New Zealander by surprise after he helped the former world number one to win 13 majors.


Asian investors stricken by gold fever on record price (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:16 PM PDT

A salesman arranges gold jewellery at a shop in Hyderabad January 10, 2008. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder/FilesReuters - Gold fever is gripping Asian investors and could spread to central banks as global growth uncertainties tarnish the appeal of other assets, putting bullion on course for more gains but also provoking fears about supply.


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