2011年9月9日星期五

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Political connections hold diminishing sway for India Inc (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 12:24 AM PDT

Veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare walks-off the stage in front of a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the 12th day of his fasting at Ramlila grounds in New Delhi August 27, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - Being politically connected isn't what it used to be for corporate India.


Taliban plan abductions to free bin Laden family (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:37 AM PDT

A market-goer walks past an image of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on display for sale in Quetta September 5, 2011. REUTERS/Naseer AhmedReuters - Pakistani Taliban militants plan to kidnap senior Pakistani officials to pressure authorities to release relatives of Osama bin Laden detained after the al Qaeda leader was killed, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Friday.


F1 tax row clouds Indian GP (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 11:52 AM PDT

McLaren Formula One team principal Martin Whitmarsh monitors the race during the Chinese F1 Grand Prix at Shanghai International circuit April 17, 2011. REUTERS/Aly Song/FilesReuters - McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh has played down fears that a tax wrangle could jeopardise next month's inaugural Indian Formula One Grand Prix.


Tata Motors CEO resigns after less than 2 years (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 08:08 AM PDT

Carl-Peter Forster, group chief executive officer of Tata Motors, attends a news conference in Mumbai, May 26, 2011. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash/FilesReuters - India's Tata Motors said late on Friday its group Chief Executive Officer Carl-Peter Forster has resigned with immediate effect, only 18 months after joining the company, which faces slowing growth in its home market.


Auto sales dragged down by cars (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 01:59 AM PDT

A worker adjusts the windscreen wipers of a parked car at a Maruti Suzuki stockyard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad September 1, 2011.  REUTERS/Amit DaveReuters - Cars sales in India fell 10 percent in August, pulling down total passenger vehicle sales for the second month in a row, as high interest rates and rising costs hit demand in Asia's third-largest economy.


Microsoft fixing Hotmail after major outage (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 02:29 AM PDT

Reuters - Microsoft said on Friday it had restored access to its Windows Live services, including Hotmail, for most customers after a major glitch that took them offline for several hours.

Al Qaeda shadow of former self 10 years after 9/11 (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 03:27 AM PDT

A woman touches a twisted piece of steel, from the attacks on the World Trade Center, at a memorial site across the Hudson River from the under-construction One World Trade Center (C) in Jersey City, New Jersey August 20, 2011. REUTERS/Gary HershornReuters - Al Qaeda's core leadership is badly wounded and almost certainly incapable of mounting another attack like the one on Sept. 11, 2001, in New York and Washington, according to U.S. and European security officials.


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