Himalayan quake deaths rise as night falls (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:32 AM PDT Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - "Modern Family" dominated the early stages of the Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday in a night of surprises and rewards for several newcomers. |