2011年9月4日星期日

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


India approves $750 mln infrastructure loan for Bangladesh (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:04 AM PDT

Workers are seen at a high-rise building under construction in front of the city's largest shopping mall in Dhaka June 16, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Biraj/FilesReuters - India has approved a $750 million loan for Bangladesh to develop trade infrastructure ahead of a visit to Dhaka by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week, a senior Bangladesh official said on Sunday.


Flipkart gets jump on Amazon in India's nascent e-shopping market (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 12:45 AM PDT

Screenshot of Flipcart's homepage, Sept 04, 2011. REUTERS/ScreenshotReuters - On some days when they were starting out, the Bansals would get on a motorbike to make the rounds of book warehouses around Bangalore, ride back to their two-bedroom apartment and package up orders for online customers.


Strauss-Kahn back home, faces frosty welcome (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 04:32 AM PDT

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn carries his luggage to a van from his New York residence as he heads to JFK Airport in New York September 3, 2011. He and his wife Anne Sinclair are headed back to France. REUTERS/ Mark DyeReuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn, his presidential hopes shattered by a sex assault scandal that rocked his homeland, returned on Sunday to France facing a frosty public reception and unease among his political allies.


Pakistan tribe in talks with Taliban to free abductees (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 03:18 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistani tribal elders are holding talks with Taliban militants in Afghanistan for the release of scores of young tribesmen kidnapped during an outing along the border, officials said on Sunday.

Iran says India paid all $5 bln oil debt (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 01:12 AM PDT

A labourer works amid oil containers at a wholesale fuel market in Kolkata April 7, 2011. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - India has paid off all oil debts to Iran accumulated this year due to a sanctions-related problem, Iran's Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani told the official IRNA news agency on Sunday.


CIA, MI6 helped Gaddafi on dissidents - rights group (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 09:07 PM PDT

A man looks at the documents found in the abandoned Libyan External Security office where Muammar Gaddafi's former spy chief and foreign minister Moussa Koussa was based in Tripoli September 3, 2011.  REUTERS/Anis MiliReuters - Documents found in the abandoned Tripoli office of Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence chief indicate the U.S. and British spy agencies helped the fallen strongman persecute Libyan dissidents, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.


Dazzling Bolt leads Jamaica to world record (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Sep 2011 07:04 AM PDT

Usain Bolt of Jamaica (R) sprints to victory in the 4x100 metres relay final ahead of Jimmy Vicaut of France (L) and Kamil Krynski of Poland (C) at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu, September 4, 2011. Jamaica set a new world record with a time of 37.04 seconds. REUTERS/David GrayReuters - The world's fastest man Usain Bolt anchored Jamaica to a golden 4x100m relay world record in the final race of the 13th world athletics championships on Sunday.


Chile says no survivors in Pacific Ocean air crash (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:53 PM PDT

Chilean soldiers prepare to erect a tent near the Juan Fernandez island's landing strip, about 420 miles (676 km) off Chile's coast, September 3, 2011. All 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the remote Juan Fernandez islands perished, Chile's government said. REUTERS/Luis Hidalgo/PoolReuters - All 21 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the remote Juan Fernandez islands perished, Chile's government said on Saturday, as rescuers and fishermen searched for bodies.


Federer and Williams survive unscathed in U.S. Open (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 10:08 PM PDT

Serena Williams of the U.S. serves to Victoria Azarenka of Belarus during their match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Lucy NicholsonReuters - Roger Federer and Serena Williams came through their first real tests at the U.S. Open on Saturday with flying colours as the casualty toll at the last grand slam of the year soared to record numbers.


Kahn arrives at New York's Kennedy airport (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Sep 2011 08:27 PM PDT

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn carries his luggage to a van from his New York residence as he heads to JFK Airport in New York September 3, 2011. He and his wife Anne Sinclair are headed back to France. REUTERS/ Mark DyeReuters - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn prepared to leave the United States on Saturday for the first time since his May 14 arrest on charges, since dropped, that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid in New York.


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