Three Indian teenagers picked for F1 fast track (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 11:18 AM PDT Reuters - Three Indian teenagers, picked by a panel including Lewis Hamilton's father Anthony, were presented by Force India on Thursday as winners of a competition to find and fund future Formula One drivers. |
Toiling Tiger's winless run closes in on two-year mark (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:41 PM PDT Reuters - With the two-year anniversary of his last tournament win fast approaching, Tiger Woods is preparing for next month's Australian Open amid growing doubts over whether he can ever regain his former dominance. |
Forbes list: Mukesh Ambani richest Indian, Anil biggest loser (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:53 AM PDT Reuters - India's richest are getting poorer, according to Forbes, as falling stock prices, corruption scandals in Asia's third-largest economy and a global slowdown wiped 20 percent off the total value of the country's 100 wealthiest in the last year. |
Organised chaos on Indian roads intrigues Vettel (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:25 AM PDT Reuters - Nothing Sebastian Vettel experiences on the track this weekend can match what the world champion has witnessed on India's roads. |
Indian F1 track shines despite teething problems (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:22 AM PDT Reuters - Teething problems were evident at India's new Buddh International circuit as the drivers arrived on Thursday but Formula One's main man declared himself satisfied. |
"Wife-sharing" haunts Indian villages as girls decline (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:08 AM PDT Reuters - When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband's two brothers who had failed to find wives. |
RIM hit with consumer lawsuits over BlackBerry outage (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 08:11 AM PDT Reuters - Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research in Motion for a days-long service outage on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world earlier this month. |
World Bank to extend $975 mln loan for Indian rail project (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:23 AM PDT Reuters - The World Bank has signed a $975-million loan agreement with the Indian government on Thursday to build part of a massive freight railway line connecting north and eastern India, it said in a statement on Thursday. |
Euro deal leaves much to do on rescue fund, Greek debt (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:23 AM PDT Reuters - Euro zone leaders struck a last-minute deal to limit the damage from the currency bloc's debt crisis early on Thursday but are still far from finalising plans to slash Greece's debt burden and strengthen their rescue fund. |
Some Pakistani industries view India trade with alarm (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 10:19 PM PDT Reuters - Efforts by longtime nuclear-armed foes Pakistan and India to liberalise their restrictive trade regimes have sent jitters across some Pakistani sectors which feel threatened by free trade with the neighbouring economic powerhouse. |
Bus driver-turned-militant takes on Pakistan again (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:05 AM PDT Reuters - When Pakistan's military launched an offensive in the Khyber tribal region in 2008, it promised residents they would soon be free of a reign of terror imposed by Islamist militants. |
Food inflation at 11.43 pct y/y on Oct 15 - govt (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 11:50 PM PDT Reuters - India's food price index rose 11.43 percent and the fuel price index climbed 14.70 percent in the year to Oct. 15, government data on Thursday showed. |
Commonwealth ministers stumble over human rights (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:36 AM PDT Reuters - Commonwealth foreign ministers meeting on Thursday were split over how tough to get on human rights abuses in member countries, an issue which one official said their leaders were unlikely to resolve at a summit later in the week. |
A tale of new cities: India's push to industrialise (Reuters) Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:06 AM PDT Reuters - Chotubhai Raghani's fields in a dry, salty strip of Indian coastline on the Arabian Sea never yielded much wheat but he feels like a lucky man now he's started selling them at a juicy markup. |
Reused pacemakers safe option in poor countries (Reuters) Posted: 26 Oct 2011 07:22 PM PDT Reuters - Recycled pacemakers donated from U.S. funeral homes could offer a safe way to get the heart devices to people in the developing world who otherwise might not be able to afford them, a U.S. study said. |