2011年8月12日星期五

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Industrial output growth jumps 8.8 pct in June (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 02:35 AM PDT

Workers at LG Electronics India Pvt Ltd. assemble television sets inside a factory at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 6, 2011. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - India industrial output expanded above forecasts in June helped by strong capital goods production, confirming resilience in Asia's third-largest economy and supporting the case for the central bank to persist with its battle against high inflation.


U.S. asks India, others to boycott Syrian oil and gas (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 02:30 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke address at New York's Asia Society February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Segar/FilesReuters - The United States on Friday for the first time called on countries to stop buying Syrian oil and gas as it sought to build pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end a brutal crackdown against protesters.


Indian oil cos have paid 1st tranche of Iran oil debts - Mukherjee (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Reuters - Indian companies have paid the first installment of their Iran oil debts, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Friday, as money owed on shipments of some 400,000 barrels per day had risen to nearly $5 billion.

Cook's 294 leads England to third highest total (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 02:05 PM PDT

England's Alastair Cook hits out watched by India's Virender Sehwag (R) during the third cricket test match at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham, England August 12, 2011. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - Alastair Cook hit a career best 294 as England amassed their third-highest total of 710 for seven declared against a weary-looking India on day three of the third test on Friday.


"Grease Devil" panic grips rural Sri Lanka, at least three dead (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 02:43 PM PDT

Reuters - Panic over nighttime assaults blamed on "grease devils" has struck across rural Sri Lanka, leading to the deaths of at least three people this week, prompting women to stay indoors and men to arm themselves, police and local media said.

Riots, wild markets: Did space storms drive us mad? (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 03:59 PM PDT

A rioter walks through a burning barricade in Liverpool August 9, 2011. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - Rollercoaster financial markets and the worst riots Britain has seen in decades have made it quite a week for a time of year that is usually so dead the newspapers are filled with "silly season" tales of amusing pet antics.


Analysis - Apple going after Google in tablet spats? (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT

The Apple Inc. logo is seen through raindrops on a window outside of the New York City flagship Apple store in New York, January 18, 2011. Apple Inc's increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc. REUTERS/Mike Segar/FilesReuters - Apple Inc's increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc.


INSIGHT - China's microbloggers rattle the censor's cage (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:45 PM PDT

A generic picture of a woman typing in an office on a computer keyboard. China's microblog sites, which claim 195 million users and allow users to shoot out short bursts of often strongly worded opinion, have put China's Communist rulers in a difficult spot. REUTERS/Catherine Benson/FilesReuters - When Chinese journalist Wang Keqin found himself cornered in the countryside two years ago by police who were trying to stop him looking into a rape case involving local officials, he looked online for help.


Tsonga ousts Federer in latest Montreal upset (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 11:09 PM PDT

France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga hits a return to Switzerland's Roger Federer at the Rogers Cup tennis tournament in Montreal August 11, 2011.  REUTERS/Christinne MuschiReuters - Jo-Wilfried Tsonga hit Roger Federer with an unpleasant Wimbledon flashback on Thursday, brushing aside the Swiss maestro 7-6 4-6 6-1 to book his place in an unlikely quarter-final line-up at the Montreal Masters.


Analysis - Pinched U.S. seen holding onto big Pacific presence (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT

US Army soldiers from Charlie company 4th platoon,1st brigade 3-21 infantry, patrol in the village of Chariagen in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province southern Afghanistan, June 22 , 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/FilesReuters - The Pacific Rim is unlikely to bear the brunt of U.S. plans to cut $350 billion in security spending, but the prospect of decreased American military outlays has nonetheless prompted soul searching in a vital region where China is rapidly expanding its forces.


UK's Cameron under pressure over cuts after riots (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Aug 2011 06:58 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron is shown the West Midlands Police events control suite by Chief Constable Chris Sims (R) and Assistant Chief Constable Sharon Rowe, in Birmingham central England August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Jeff J Mitchell/poolReuters - Prime Minister David Cameron risks his government's austerity drive, particularly its plans to cut police funding, becoming the focus of Britons' fears about the future after the worst looting and rioting in decades hit English cities this week.


Frustrated Woods simply can't 'let it go' (Reuters)

Posted: 12 Aug 2011 05:34 AM PDT

Tiger Woods of the U.S. hits out of a sand trap on the eighth fairway during the first round of the 93rd PGA Championship golf tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Johns Creek, Georgia, August 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jeff HaynesReuters - Tiger Woods offered a tantalising glimpse of his old self at the PGA Championship on Thursday before the erratic play that has dogged him through the past, winless, two years returned to wreck his opening round.


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