2011年11月11日星期五

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


Kingfisher flies into debt turbulence (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:11 AM PST

A passenger aircraft of India's Kingfisher Airlines is seen during Reuters - The civil aviation minister sought to cool a crisis over debt-hobbled Kingfisher Airlines on Friday as investors bailed out, alarmed by scores of flight cancellations and reports that its leasing firms wanted their planes back.


BJP not in favour of govt bailout for Kingfisher (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 04:13 AM PST

A passenger aircraft of Kingfisher Airlines is seen in Hyderabad October 15, 2008. REUTERS/Krishnendu HalderReuters - The Bharatiya Janata Party, is opposed to any move by the government to bail out debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines that cancelled flights to minimise losses and urgently needs cash to escape a collapse.


EXCLUSIVE - State-run retailers eye gasoline price cut next week: source (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:45 AM PST

A worker fills a car with petrol as he gestures towards the fuel barometer for the passenger to check, at a fuel station in Kolkata September 15, 2011. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - State-run retailers may cut gasoline prices from Nov. 16, an industry source said, the first cut in nearly three years and the first in the 18 months since the government ended controls.


India makes small savings more attractive, tweaks structure (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 08:19 AM PST

An employee counts currency notes at a cash counter inside a bank in Agartala, Tripura, January 29, 2010. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey/FilesReuters - India has made small savings more attractive in an effort to woo small investors and enlarge the national savings pool, a notification from the finance ministry on Friday showed.


Factory output growth slides to 2-yr low (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 06:55 AM PST

A worker winds aluminium and iron wires used to making electrical power lines at a factory on the outskirts of Jammu September 12, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/FilesReuters - India's industrial output grew at its slowest pace in two years in September, providing further evidence of deceleration in the economy and raising the odds of a pause in the central bank's 20-month-long policy tightening cycle.


Petri dish to dinner plate, in-vitro meat coming soon (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 02:54 AM PST

A spit roast pig is seen at the Mangalica Festival in Budapest on February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Karoly Arvai/FilesReuters - Scientists are cooking up new ways of satisfying the world's ever-growing hunger for meat.


Tiger Woods bites back to lead in Australia (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 01:06 AM PST

Tiger Woods of the U.S. plays a shot on the 11th hole during the second round of the Australian Open Golf tournament in Sydney November 11, 2011. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Tiger Woods flourished in balmy morning conditions to claim one-stroke advantage halfway through the Australian Open on Friday, leading a tournament overnight for the first time this year.


Food inflation at 11.81 pct y/y on Oct 29 - govt (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 11:15 PM PST

A vendor waits for customers at his vegetable and fruit shop at the wholesale market in Mumbai March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - India's food price index rose 11.81 percent and the fuel price index climbed 14.50 percent in the year to Oct. 29, government data on Friday showed.


France shocked by S&P downgrade error (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:21 PM PST

The Standard and Poor's building in New York, August 2, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/FilesReuters - Standard & Poor's mistakenly announced the downgrade of France's top credit rating on Thursday, frightening investors already anxious over Europe's worsening debt crisis.


U.S. Army sergeant convicted of Afghan murders (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:16 PM PST

Reuters - A U.S. Army sergeant was convicted by court-martial on Thursday of murdering unarmed civilians and cutting fingers from their corpses as ringleader of a rogue platoon in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

Kingfisher in trouble over aircraft leases; pilots quit - reports (Reuters)

Posted: 10 Nov 2011 08:38 PM PST

A Kingfisher Airlines Airbus passenger aircraft prepares to take off for Mumbai airport in this April 11, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/FilesReuters - Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, which has been cancelling flights across several routes, faces fresh trouble as some companies who have lent aircraft to the loss-making airline plan to take them back, while about 130 staff pilots have quit in the past few weeks, two newspapers said, citing unnamed sources.


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