Pakistan warns U.S.: 'You will lose an ally' (Reuters) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 03:59 PM PDT Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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 Reuters - 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. |