2011年9月19日星期一

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Himalayan quake deaths rise as night falls (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:32 AM PDT

Members of the Nepalese army gather around a damaged car after the wall surrounding the British Embassy collapsed on top of the car that was passing by during the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Kathmandu September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Navesh ChitrakarReuters - Rescuers dug through mudslides on roads to isolated Himalayan villages on Monday in search of survivors after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake killed 63 people in India, Nepal and the Chinese region of Tibet.


INTERVIEW - Rate rise cycle near peak - RBI deputy gov (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:31 AM PDT

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) logo is pictured outside its head office in Mumbai January 11, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - India faces inflation of close to 10 percent in the September-November period but price pressure should moderate from December, meaning the peak of an 18-month rate rise cycle is near, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor Subir Gokarn said on Monday.


Obama offers $3 trillion debt plan, tax hikes on rich (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:29 AM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he talks about cutting the U.S. deficit by raising taxes, from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, September 19, 2011. REUTERS/Jason ReedReuters - President Barack Obama laid out a $3 trillion plan on Monday to cut U.S. deficits by raising taxes on the rich, but Republicans rejected it as a political stunt and made clear the proposal has little chance of becoming law.


Strauss-Kahn apology seen contrived, staged (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:31 AM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fondation chief (IMF), reacts on the TF1 prime time news programme in their studios in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Francois Guillot/PoolReuters - The French media scorned what it called an insincere and staged TV apology by Dominique Strauss-Kahn for his sexual encounter with a New York hotel maid, with many noting he left the door ajar for an eventual political comeback.


BCCI rules out England tour post-mortem (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:24 AM PDT

India's Munaf Patel is assisted from the field after getting injured during their fifth one-day international cricket match against England at the Swalec Stadium in Cardiff, Wales September 16, 2011. REUTERS/Philip BrownReuters - The new BCCI president N. Srinivasan on Monday ruled out any formal inquiry into the team's abysmal performance on their tour of England.


Renewables stir growth, create jobs - EU adviser (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:02 AM PDT

Jeremy Rifkin delivers his speech during a congress of Socialist International at Lagonisi Grand Resort south of Athens, June 30, 2008. REUTERS/John Kolesidis/FilesReuters - A major expansion of renewable energy could create millions of jobs worldwide, stir economic growth in heavily indebted countries and help fight climate change at the same time, an American adviser to the German leader Angela Merkel said on Monday.


INSIGHT - Dreams and decline in Kolar gold mine (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Schoolchildren play in front of an abandoned shaft at Kolar Gold Fields, located in Karnataka September 9, 2011.  REUTERS/Swetha GopinathReuters - Richard Johnson has a glittering dream he hopes India's dilatory government won't thwart. The 60-year-old mining engineer wants to restart gold production at Kolar, site of one of the world's deepest mines in the heart of gold-fevered India.


BCCI terminates IPL Kochi franchise (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:11 AM PDT

A policeman walks past a logo of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in Mumbai April 26, 2010. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has terminated the contract of the Indian Premier League's Kochi franchise for a breach of terms, newly elected board president N. Srinivasan said on Monday.


Kaushik Basu says to keep FY12 fiscal gap under 5 pct of GDP - TV (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 06:34 AM PDT

A cashier checks Indian currency notes inside a bank in Agartala, July 24, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/FilesReuters - India will try to keep its fiscal deficit under 5 percent of the gross domestic product, even as a slowing economy and worsening global outlook make it "difficult" to meet fiscal targets, a top government adviser said in an interview broadcast on Monday.


Fortis Healthcare to buy sister overseas arm (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:26 AM PDT

Fortis Healthcare Group Chairman Malvinder Mohan Singh speaks during the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Kuala Lumpur September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Bazuki MuhammadReuters - Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd will buy Singapore-based sister firm Fortis Healthcare International in a move to bring all of the group's health businesses under one firm, group Chairman Malvinder Singh said.


WHO says $1.20 a person could curb chronic diseases (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:42 PM PDT

Zainab Batool, an 11-year-old girl with fever, rests her head on her mother's lap while waiting for a medical check-up at the Services Hospital in Lahore September 18, 2011.  REUTERS/Mohsin RazaReuters - Poorer countries could introduce measures to prevent and treat millions of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and lung disease for a little as $1.20 per person per year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday.


BSE Sensex falls 1.1 pct on weak global cues; lenders drop (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:42 AM PDT

A broker monitors share prices at a brokerage firm in Mumbai August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Stringer/FilesReuters - The BSE Sensex shed 1.11 percent on Monday, after eking out 0.4 percent gains last week, tracking weak global peers on lingering worries over the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis, with Friday's local rate hike weighing on rate-sensitive sectors.


Tata's Jaguar Land Rover picks UK for new plant (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 05:30 AM PDT

A Jaguar symbol is seen outside the Jaguar Land Rover's Halewood assembly plant in Liverpool, northern England, March 2, 2011.    REUTERS/Phil Noble/FilesReuters - Luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover, part of Tata Motors, said it will invest 355 million pounds ($561 million) on a new engine plant in central England, which fought off competition from India with backing from the UK government.


'Mad Men', 'Modern Family' win Emmys but shocks abound (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 04:00 AM PDT

The female cast of Reuters - "Mad Men" and "Modern Family" won television's top drama and comedy prizes again on Sunday but elsewhere it was out with the old and in with the new at the Primetime Emmy Awards.


I made a "moral error", Strauss-Kahn tells France (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:51 AM PDT

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former International Monetary Fondation chief (IMF), reacts on the TF1 prime time news programme in their studios in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, September 18, 2011.  REUTERS/Francois Guillot/PoolReuters - Dominique Strauss-Kahn apologised to his country on Sunday for a sexual encounter with a hotel maid he said was a "moral error" he would regret all his life, and vowed to stay out of the Socialist Party's 2012 election campaign in France.


Senior policeman survives Pakistan suicide blast, 8 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 11:01 PM PDT

Reuters - At least eight people were killed, including six policemen, after a Taliban suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into the home of a senior police official in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi on Monday.

Gender equality boosts development, World Bank says (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:38 AM PDT

A woman fills an application form for a job posting in Kuwait during a job fair at the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency in Manila in this September 20, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo/FilesReuters - Gender equality is shrewd economics as well as a human right, the World Bank said on Monday in a report that showed countries with better opportunities for women and girls can boost productivity and development.


Man United, Bayern keep on winning (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:51 AM PDT

Chelsea's Ashley Cole (R) challenges Manchester United's Javier Hernandez during their English Premier League soccer match in Manchester, northern England September 18, 2011. REUTERS/Phil NobleReuters - Bayern Munich and Manchester United kept up their winning streaks to stay top in Germany and England at the weekend.


'Modern Family' wins early Emmys on night of surprises (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 08:19 PM PDT

Actress Sarah Hyland from Reuters - "Modern Family" dominated the early stages of the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday in a night of surprises and rewards for several newcomers.


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