2011年9月7日星期三

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Minor earthquake shakes Delhi, no damage reported (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:26 PM PDT

Reuters - An earthquake measuring 4.2 shook New Delhi and surrounding areas late on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or injuries, authorities said.

Al Qaeda affiliate HuJI suspected in Delhi blast (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:25 AM PDT

Police cordon off the site of a bomb blast outside the High Court in New Delhi September 7, 2011. A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least nine people and injured 45 on Wednesday, a senior official said, prompting the Indian government to put the capital on high alert. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least 11 people and wounded 76 on Wednesday in an attack authorities said was claimed by a South Asian militant group linked to al Qaeda.


Q+A - Who could be behind deadly Delhi court blast? (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:55 AM PDT

Paramedics rush a covered man, who was injured by a bomb blast outside the High Court in New Delhi, to a hospital for treatment September 7, 2011. REUTERS/Vijay MathurReuters - A powerful bomb placed in a briefcase outside the High Court in New Delhi killed at least 11 people on Wednesday in an attack authorities said may have been carried out by a South Asian militant group linked to al Qaeda.


Govt introduces long-delayed land acquisition bill (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:13 AM PDT

Villagers and their children lie at the proposed site of a $12 billion steel plant by South Korea's POSCO during a protest in Orissa June 11, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The government edged closer to replacing a century-old land acquisition law on Wednesday, introducing a bill in parliament that seeks to placate a rural voter base worried it is being short-changed in the country's rush into modernisation.


India says probing bomb claim by Islamist militant group (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:34 AM PDT

Men carry a man, who was injured by a bomb blast outside the High Court in New Delhi, on a stretcher to a hospital for treatment September 7, 2011.  REUTERS/Vijay MathurReuters - India is investigating an email allegedly sent by the outlawed South Asian militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami (HUJI) claiming responsibility for a bomb attack in New Delhi, which killed at least 10 people on Wednesday, said a senior Indian security official.


Court clears way for Telenor unit rights issue (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:10 AM PDT

Reuters - Norway's Telenor said on Wednesday the Punjab and Haryana High Court's decision has "cleared the way" for a proposed rights issue to raise funds for its Indian mobile phone unit Unitech Wireless.

Dozens feared dead in Russian hockey team plane crash (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Emergency workers search the wreckage of a plane that crashed near the Russian city of Yaroslavl September 7, 2011. REUTERS/StringerReuters - A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, leaving 43 people feared dead.


EXCLUSIVE - Facebook first-half revenue roughly doubles (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a news conference at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto, California July 6, 2011. Facebook's first-half revenue roughly doubled to $1.6 billion, underscoring the  world's largest social network's appeal to advertisers. REUTERS/Norbert von der Groeben/FilesReuters - Facebook's first-half revenue roughly doubled to $1.6 billion, underscoring the world's largest social network's appeal to advertisers.


Inflation partly fuelled by external factors: Pranab (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:24 PM PDT

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee attends the swearing-in ceremony of the cabinet reshuffle at the presidential palace in New Delhi January 19, 2011. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - India's domestic inflation is partly fuelled by the policy actions in developed countries, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.


Yahoo CEO Bartz fired over the phone, rocky run ends (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Sep 2011 12:47 AM PDT

Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz speaks during an interview with Reuters in New York September 15, 2010. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/FilesReuters - Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous tenure marked by stagnation and a rift with Chinese partner Alibaba.


Manmohan Singh in Bangladesh but little progress (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 07:54 PM PDT

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (R) and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina review an honour guard at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka September 6, 2011. REUTERS/Andrew BirajReuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina signed a series of agreements in Dhaka on Tuesday, but failed to resolve their main disputes, over transit rights for India and the sharing of river waters, officials said.


Tax cuts could set off India wine boom (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 11:52 PM PDT

Visitors taste bottles of red wine during the 6th Shanghai International Wine Trade Fair June 1, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/FilesReuters - Cash-rich emerging Asian markets, especially India, could see an explosion in wine consumption in the future -- if their government scraps import taxes altogether, the way Hong Kong did in 2008, maintains wine expert Jeannie Cho Lee.


Suspected bomb blast at Delhi High Court kills four (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Sep 2011 10:58 PM PDT

Reuters - A suspected bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court killed four people on Wednesday, a senior home ministry official told CNN-IBN channel.
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