2011年10月4日星期二

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Anna Hazare vows anti-govt drive in UP polls (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:13 AM PDT

Social activist Anna Hazare waves to his supporters in front of a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the 12th day of his fasting at Ramlila grounds in New Delhi August 27, 2011.  REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/FilesReuters - Anna Hazare, who led India's largest street protests against corruption in decades, said on Tuesday he plans a hunger strike against the ruling Congress party during state elections in Uttar Pradesh next year if the anti-graft Jan Lokpal Bill is not quickly passed.


Afghan leader signs deal to deepen ties with India (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:18 AM PDT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to one of the elders during the funeral ceremony of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, the government's chief peace negotiator, at the presidential palace in Kabul, September 23, 2011.    REUTERS/Kamran Jebreili/PoolReuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a wide-ranging agreement with India on Tuesday to deepen ties between the two countries, including to help train Afghan security forces, in a deal likely to irk Pakistan as tension grows in the region.


CBI files charges in bribes-for-loans case (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:52 AM PDT

School students shout slogans during a protest against a corruption case in Jammu February 12, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/FilesReuters - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed charges against executives at several financial services firms, including Life Insurance Corporation of India and Punjab National Bank, in a bribes-for-loans case, police said on Tuesday.


New Apple iPhone fails to wow investors, fans (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:53 PM PDT

Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, speaks about the iPhone 4S at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California October 4, 2011.    REUTERS/Robert GalbraithReuters - Apple Inc's newest iPhone left Wall Street and fans wishing for more than a faster version of last year's device, drawing a rare outburst of criticism and disappointment on the Internet.


Moody's cuts SBI rating; shares skid (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:42 AM PDT

People walk in front of a signboard displayed at the head office of State Bank of India in Mumbai November 9, 2009. REUTERS/Arko Datta/FilesReuters - Moody's on Tuesday downgraded the standalone rating for State Bank of India, the country's dominant lender, citing "modest" capital and weakening asset quality, sending its shares to a two-year low and rattling the broader Indian market.


Gujarat rolls out red carpet for carmakers (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:28 AM PDT

A worker walks at Maruti Suzuki stockyard on the outskirts of Ahmedabad August 1, 2011. REUTERS/Amit Dave/FilesReuters - Along a dusty, traffic-choked road in Gujarat lies what may be India's industrial future.


China to keep Pakistan embrace at arm's length (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:45 PM PDT

School children dance with Pakistani and Chinese flags in front of their leaders during the inauguration ceremony of the Pakistan China Friendship Center in Islamabad December 18, 2010.  REUTERS/Mian Khursheed/FilesReuters - Pakistan, facing a crisis with the United States, has leaned closely to longtime partner China, offering its "all-weather friendship" with Beijing as an alternative to Washington.


No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:56 PM PDT

A vegetable seller reads a newspaper as he waits for customers at a market in Kolkata September 9, 2010. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - Anyone hoping that recent falls in commodity prices would provide a boost to powerhouse Asian economies and help lift the developed world out of recessionary danger will be disappointed. The region's focus remains firmly on inflation.


Seventy percent of rural families are hungry in Bihar (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:51 PM PDT

A child drinks water at a flood relief camp in Araria district town in Bihar, September 7, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - Around seventy percent of rural households in Bihar are routinely forced to skip meals due to high levels of poverty, a new study has revealed.


Suspected sectarian attack in Pakistan kills 13 (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:38 PM PDT

Reuters - At least 13 people were shot dead by gunmen in a suspected sectarian attack on a passenger bus in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Tuesday, the second such attack in just over two weeks.

World Chefs - Khanna hopes to inspire with book, TV show (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:27 AM PDT

Reuters - Celebrity chef Vikas Khanna hopes his latest book and television show will inspire home chefs and children in his native India to express their culinary talents.

Apple to showcase new iPhone after 15-month hiatus (Reuters)

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:18 AM PDT

A man uses an Apple iPhone in Santa Monica, California August 24, 2011. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/FilesReuters - Apple Inc is set to unveil the fifth iteration of the iPhone on Tuesday after a 15-month hiatus, hoping to fend off hard-charging Android rivals and safeguard its lead in the smartphone market.


Cancer kills Nobel physician before he hears of prize (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 08:17 PM PDT

Professor Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren (R) of Karolinska Institute announces the 2011 Nobel Physiology or Medicine laureates during a news conference in Stockholm October 3, 2011. REUTERS/Leif R. Jansson/ScanpixReuters - A scientist who won the Nobel prize for medicine on Monday used his own discoveries to treat himself for cancer, but died of the disease just days before he could be told of the award.


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