2011年10月1日星期六

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Maruti says strike at plant ends; Sept sales down 21 pct (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 05:13 AM PDT

Private security guards stand outside the main entrance to the Maruti Suzuki India Limited plant in Manesar June 14, 2011. REUTERS/Adnan AbidiReuters - Maruti Suzuki, India's top car maker, said a month-long strike at its Manesar plant that cost the company about $135 million in lost output ended on Saturday, after workers agreed to sign discipline agreements.


U.S. struggles to chart fresh course with Pakistan (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 02:35 AM PDT

A supporter of the religious and political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, waves a party flag during a rally against drone attacks in Karachi June 4, 2011. REUTERS/Athar Hussain/FilesReuters - The White House's attempts to set a fresh course with Pakistan are being hobbled by bad options, bureaucratic tensions and the desire to avoid severing a vexing but critical relationship.


Nato says captures senior Haqqani commander in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 05:12 AM PDT

Reuters - NATO-led forces said on Saturday that they had captured the senior commander for the Haqqani network in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan, during an operation in eastern Paktia province earlier in the week.

Wasabi alarm, beetle sex win Ig Nobel spoof prizes (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 01:07 AM PDT

A chemist is reflected in a beaker after mixing chemicals that gave the beaker a reflective coating during a demonstration at the 21st annual Ig Nobel prize ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts September 29, 2011. REUTERS/Adam HungerReuters - Prognosticators who predicted the end of the world and got it wrong, scientists who built a wasabi fire alarm, and researchers who studied how the urge to urinate affects decision-making were among the winners of spoof Ig Nobel prizes on Thursday.


India, 25 others oppose EU airline carbon charge plan (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 12:38 AM PDT

Boeing 787 Dreamliner airframe #8's landing gear breaks contact from the ground on departure from Paine Field in Everett, Washington, September 27,2011, for delivery to the 787's first customer, All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan. REUTERS/Anthony BolanteReuters - European Union plans to charge airlines for carbon emissions are "discriminatory" and violate global laws, a group of 26 countries including the United States and China said in a joint declaration released by the Indian government on Friday.


Pakistani Punjab governor killer sentenced to death (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 02:49 AM PDT

A portrait of the assassinated Governor of Punjab Salman Taseer is displayed during a Sunday service at the Cathedral Church of the Resurrection in Lahore January 9, 2011. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza/FilesReuters - A Pakistani court sentenced to death on Saturday the killer of the governor of Pakistan's largest province after he had called for reform of a law against blasphemy, a defence lawyer and state-run media said.


China calls for talks over shelved Myanmar dam (Reuters)

Posted: 01 Oct 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Myanmar's new civilian president, Thein Sein (L), shares a toast with Chinese President Hu Jintao after a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing May 27, 2011. REUTERS/David Gray/FilesReuters - China called on Saturday for talks with Myanmar after the government there suspended a controversial $3.6 billion, Chinese-led dam project.


Ailing matriarch Sonia puts Gandhi dynasty at crossroads (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 11:30 PM PDT

(R - L) Chief of Congress party Sonia Gandhi, her daughter Priyanka Vadera, son-in-law Robert Vadera, and son Rahul Gandhi, walk at Rajiv Gandhi's memorial on the occasion of former Prime Minister's 18th death anniversary in New Delhi May 21, 2009. REUTERS/B Mathur/FilesReuters - Rahul Gandhi, heir to the family dynasty that has dominated politics in the world's biggest democracy for generations, was trying to make himself heard in the uproar of Parliament.


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