2011年9月23日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Pakistan warns U.S.: 'You will lose an ally' (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:59 PM PDT

Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar addresses the media in Ankara August 11, 2011. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/FilesReuters - Pakistan warned the United States it risked losing an ally if it kept accusing Islamabad of playing a double game in the war against militancy, escalating the crisis in relations between the two countries.


U.S. looks for links between Kabul, Mumbai attacks (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:41 PM PDT

Afghan policemen fire towards a building which the Taliban insurgents took over during an attack near the U.S. embassy in Kabul September 13, 2011.   REUTERS/Ahmad MasoodReuters - U.S. agencies are looking into possible similarities between the Sept. 13 attacks on U.S. and NATO targets in Afghanistan, and the November 2008 attack by militants on civilian targets in Mumbai, India.


By rickshaw from London to India - for charity (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 05:45 AM PDT

Sanjay Sharma, 44, a UK-based IT professional drives Reuters - A three-wheeled rickshaw hardly seems the vehicle of choice for travelling thousands of kilometers and crossing 14 countries.


U.S.-Pakistan ties dismal, but could get worse (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:13 PM PDT

Members of Pakistan's air force stand before the Pakistan national flag during Defense Day ceremonies, or Pakistan's memorial day, at the mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi.  REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro/FilesReuters - The United States and Pakistan unleashed a war of words this week as Washington accused Islamabad of involvement in attacks on U.S. targets in Kabul, and Pakistan warned against a rupture in an already strained relationship crucial to U.S. success in Afghanistan.


Ravi Shankar still making magic sitar music at 91 (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 02:12 PM PDT

Sitar player Ravi Shankar performs in Kolkata February 7, 2009. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw/FilesReuters - Baby boomers may remember classical sitar player Ravi Shankar from his legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, or his influence on popular music culture at the time.


Rupee posts biggest weekly fall in 15 years (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:45 PM PDT

An employee counts Indian rupee notes at a cash counter inside a bank in Agartala December 31, 2010. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/FilesReuters - The rupee posted its biggest weekly fall in more than 15 years on Friday on heightened risk aversion amid the possibility of a recession in the developed world, even as it rebounded from a 28-month low on suspected intervention by the central bank.


Job axe swings across Asia banking sector; more to come (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:45 AM PDT

Pedestrians walk pass a HSBC banner in Mumbai March 10, 2005. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - Firings are picking up pace at foreign banks across Asia, with industry professionals and headhunters saying more rounds are set to come.


INSIGHT - Haqqani chief: U.S. will suffer if it tries attack (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 04:13 PM PDT

A woman clad in a burqa walks past the national flag of Pakistan in Lahore August 13, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/FilesReuters - Sirajuddin Haqqani does not carry a gun or wear a turban as he moves stealthily through the Waziristan wilderness along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, hoping to avoid detection and getting hit by a U.S. missile from a drone aircraft.


India Inc balks at new land bill, calls for balance (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 11:27 PM PDT

A private security guard walks outside the closed Tata Motors Nano car factory in Singur, north of Kolkata, April 27, 2011. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - Unfinished car shells rusting in a deserted factory in West Bengal lie testimony to flaws in a century-old land-acquisition law the government now wants to replace.


ANALYSIS - Informal lending stymies India's inflation fight (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 01:07 AM PDT

A rupee note a money exchange shop in Siliguri February 5, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhur/FilesiReuters - Sudhir Kakkar, a business executive in a New Delhi publishing firm, recently needed to borrow money to furnish his house after getting married. Instead of approaching commercial banks for his loan, however, Kakkar joined a "chit fund" group.


G20 pledges to support banks, short on specifics (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 09:36 PM PDT

U.S. dollar, euro and Swiss franc bank notes are seen in a bank in Budapest August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo/FilesReuters - The world's major economies pledged on Thursday to prevent the euro zone's debt crisis from undermining banks and markets but announced no new specific measures to shore up confidence in the global economy.


U.S. turns up the heat on Pakistan's spy agency (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:59 AM PDT

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen listens to a question during a news conference in New Delhi April 8, 2009. REUTERS/B MathurReuters - Washington's stunning charge that Pakistan's spy service is backing violence against U.S. targets in Afghanistan has pushed Islamabad into a tight corner: either it cleans up the powerful agency or it faces the wrath of an angry superpower.


Sri Lanka's women deminers clean up legacy of Asia's longest war (Reuters)

Posted: 22 Sep 2011 08:54 PM PDT

Biruntha Ravichandran, 21, a deminer working for the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD), searches for mines in a mine field in Kannaddi, located in Mannar district in Sri Lanka, September 8, 2011. REUTERS/ALERTNET/Nita BhallaReuters - Wearing a visor and a protective vest over grey fatigues tucked into black military boots, former housewife S. Dishanty crawls on her hands and knees through dense bush, slowly inching forward and methodically scanning the ground.


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