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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's food inflation accelerated in late August, supporting the case for more interest rate rises, while a top government adviser said price pressures would not ease immediately.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ruling Congress party head Sonia Gandhi, the country's most powerful politician, has thrown her support behind greater land rights for farmers as the issue becomes a key political battleground for the government.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The circuit for next year's Indian Grand Prix will be ready in time and tickets for the first Formula One race in the country will go on sale by the end of this year, an official said on Thursday.
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - The public face of the emergency response in flood-hit Pakistan may be the international relief worker or Pakistani soldier, but officials say there are hundreds of thousands of ordinary people supporting the aid effort who should not be forgotten.
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan athletics chiefs have defended world 800 metres record holder David Rudisha's decision to pull out of next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's vital monsoon rains were 26 percent above normal in the week to Sept. 8, compared with 16 percent above normal in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday.
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed 10 people and wounded four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border on Thursday, a government official told Reuters.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he would go ahead with the event despite warnings it would endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc and its Gulf of Mexico oil well partners traded blame on Wednesday after an internal BP investigation tried to downplay the company's role in the world's biggest offshore spill.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on Sept. 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he will go ahead with the event despite warnings it will endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
PARIS (Reuters) - Formula One's governing body (FIA) upheld a $100,000 fine for Ferrari but will impose no further sanction following the team orders controversy, an Italian motorsport official told reporters on Wednesday.
DETROIT (Reuters) - Venture capitalist Warren Packard hopes sports fans will stop listening to their friends and start heeding his new website to find out which games they should watch.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's tax department has jurisdiction over tax bills in cross-border mergers, a court ruled, dismissing a petition by Vodafone and setting a precedent for foreign firms looking to buy into Indian companies.
KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan, whose economy has been battered by the worst floods in its history, needs to abide by terms of an IMF bailout loan by enforcing fiscal austerity, the chances of which happening appear close to zero.
PARIS (Reuters) - Formula One will stretch to a record 20 races next year with India making its grand prix debut in late October although no new teams will be coming in, the sport's governing body said on Wednesday.
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - James Bond fans with deep pockets will soon have the chance to get their hands on the ultimate piece of 007 memorabilia, as the martini-sipping, daredevil spy's Aston Martin DB5 goes up for auction next month.
ROME (Reuters Life!) - Help for millions affected by the recent floods in Pakistan may be coming from an unusual source: an online vocabulary game that feeds the hungry.
