2011年7月26日星期二

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Just talking is progress in India, Pakistan ties (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:32 AM PDT

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar adjusts her sunglasses while speaking to the media upon her arrival at the airport in New Delhi July 26, 2011. Khar is on a visit to India for the ministerial level talks to be held on Wednesday. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - Expectations of a breakthrough in peace talks between India and Pakistan on Wednesday remain low, but the fact the nuclear armed rivals keep talking is a sign that neither side wants to slide back towards conflict in the world's most dangerous region.


Norwegian killer probably insane, his lawyer says (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:06 AM PDT

Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik (L), the man accused of a killing spree and bomb attack in Norway, sits in the rear of a vehicle as he is transported in a police convoy as he is leaving the courthouse in Oslo July 25, 2011. REUTERS/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen/Aftenposten via ScanpixReuters - The lawyer of a Norwegian who killed at least 76 people in a bombing and a shooting spree said on Tuesday his client appeared to be a madman.


Major issues between old rivals India and Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:22 AM PDT

A Pakistani Ranger stands near the Pakistani flag and Indian flag (L) during a daily parade at the Pakistan-India joint check post at Wagah border, on the outskirts of Lahore February 26, 2010. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/FilesReuters - India's and Pakistan's foreign ministers hold talks in New Delhi on Wednesday, the latest in a series of high-level meetings between the nuclear armed countries aimed at bringing peace to the world's most dangerous region.


Facebook tweaks face-recognition after complaints (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:03 AM PDT

The Facebook logo is shown at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California May 26, 2010. Facebook has made it easier for users to opt out of its controversial facial-recognition technology for photographs, an effort to address concerns that it had violated consumers' privacy. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith/FilesReuters - Facebook has made it easier for users to opt out of its controversial facial-recognition technology for photographs, an effort to address concerns that it had violated consumers' privacy.


Maruti Q1 beats forecast, rate hike clouds outlook (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:57 AM PDT

A worker cleans a parked car at the Maruti Suzuki's stockyard on the outskirts of Jammu January 4, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh GuptaReuters - Maruti Suzuki, India's top car maker, beat estimates with an 18 percent rise in its fiscal first quarter net profit on Tuesday that coincided with another interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that made the outlook for the car sector murkier.


RBI surprises with 50 bps rate hike (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:53 AM PDT

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao attends an annual monetary policy review meeting in Mumbai May 3, 2011. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/FilesReuters - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stunned investors by raising interest rates by 50 basis points on Tuesday, showing unexpected resolve in fighting persistently high inflation despite slowing growth in Asia's third-largest economy and uncertainty about global demand.


Kotah maharaja's tiger hunting Rolls Royce may fetch $1 mln (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:44 AM PDT

Reuters - Auction house Bonhams will put under the hammer a rare Rolls Royce Phantom modified for tiger hunting by an Indian maharaja during the days of the British Raj, featuring a mounted machine gun and a cannon, that may fetch up to $1 million.

NEWSMAKER-Strauss-Kahn's accuser: Schemer or immigrant survivor? (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:14 AM PDT

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn turns to the media after he and his wife Anne Sinclair July 6, 2011. REUTERS/Reuters TVReuters - First she was portrayed as a model of virtue who was violated by a rich and powerful man.


Norway killer praises Japan as model country - Kyodo (Reuters)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:04 AM PDT

Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of a killing spree and bomb attack in Norway, sits in the rear of a vehicle as he is transported in a police convoy as he is leaving the courthouse in Oslo July 25, 2011. REUTERS/Jon-Are Berg-Jacobsen/Aftenposten via ScanpixReuters - The confessed killer of 76 people in Friday's bomb and gun attacks in Norway described Japan as a model country in a document he distributed on the Internet, praising it for shying away from multiculturalism, Kyodo news agency reported.


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