2011年11月30日星期三

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Yahoo! News: India Top Stories - Reuters


State cos to cut petrol prices from Thursday (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:49 AM PST

An employee fills an iconic yellow ambassador taxi with diesel at a fuel station in Kolkata June 24, 2011.  REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/FilesReuters - State-run oil firms will cut petrol prices by 0.78 rupees a litre, or nearly 1.2 percent from Thursday, Indian Oil Corp said, the second cut this month, reflecting global prices and potentially easing near double-digit inflation.


Earthquake recorded off India's Nicobar Islands (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:05 PM PST

Reuters - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake, at a depth of one kilometre, was recorded off India's remote Nicobar Islands at 1942 GMT on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

India says breaks up militant cell, arrests Pakistani (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 06:06 AM PST

Firefighters examine the site of a bomb blast at the German Bakery restaurant in Pune February 13, 2010. REUTERS/StringerReuters - Police on Wednesday arrested six alleged members of a banned militant group, including one Pakistani man, in connection with three bomb blasts and a shootout last year.


In world's biggest democracy, parliament doesn't work (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:30 AM PST

Parliament building is pictured behind marigold flowers on the opening day of the winter session in New Delhi November 22, 2011.  REUTERS/B MathurReuters - India's parliament has always been a boisterous and chaotic place that, like the country itself, still somehow worked: these days, it's not even muddling through.


GDP growth at 6.9 pct in Q2, slowest in more than 2 years (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 02:15 AM PST

A worker moves iron pipes to make way after unloading them at a factory in the outskirts of Jammu August 30, 2011.  REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/FilesReuters - India's economy grew at its weakest pace in more than two years in the quarter that ended in September, revealing the heavy toll that stubborn inflation, rising interest rates and crisis-hit global capital markets are having on Asia's third-biggest economy.


Retail sector reform freezes dysfunctional parliament (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:47 AM PST

The parliament building is pictured behind marigold flowers on the opening day of the winter session of parliament in New Delhi November 22, 2011.  REUTERS/B MathurReuters - The government refused to allow a parliamentary vote on Wednesday on rolling back controversial retail reforms, and the current legislative session now faces more disruption, making it unlikely that any significant laws will be passed this year.


Pakistan army says NATO attack was blatant aggression (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 07:01 AM PST

Protestors, who are demonstrating against a NATO cross-border attack, burn an effigy representing the U.S. in Karachi November 27, 2011.  REUTERS/Athar HussainReuters - A senior Pakistani army official has said a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 soldiers was a deliberate, blatant act of aggression, hardening Pakistan's stance on an incident that could hurt efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.


Funding crunch puts progress on AIDS at risk (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 04:46 AM PST

Children run past a mural painting of an Aids ribbon at a school in Khutsong Township, 74 km west of Johannesburg, August 22, 2011. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/FilesReuters - The international community has made extraordinary progress in the past decade in the fight against AIDS, but a funding crisis is putting those gains at risk, the United Nations health agencies said on Wednesday.


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