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Bopara opens with 60 as England make 240 in India (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:11 AM CST Reuters - All rounder Ravi Bopara hit 60 runs as a makeshift opener to help a shaky England to 240 all out in the third one day international against India on Thursday.

Jharkhand cracks downs on Maoists, 25 arrested (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:47 AM CST Reuters - Police have busted two jungle hideouts of Maoist rebels in Jharkhand and arrested about two dozen guerrillas, some apparently plotting landmine attacks on government forces, officials said on Thursday.

Annual inflation at 8.90 pct on Nov. 8 (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 02:32 AM CST Reuters - India's wholesale price index rose 8.90 percent in the 12 months to Nov. 8, marginally below the previous week's annual rise of 8.98 percent, government data showed on Thursday.

Opposition BJP says crisis needs bigger response (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 12:49 AM CST Reuters - India needs to restore economic confidence hit by the global credit crisis by helping struggling industries, boosting infrastructure spending and dramatically improving governance, senior opposition leader Arun Shourie said.

Kashmir employees on strike for pay rise (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 03:14 AM CST Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of government employees, including teachers and health workers, went on a day-long strike in Kashmir on Thursday demanding higher wages and the raising of the retirement age by two years.

Cabinet OKs higher wages in state-run firms (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 01:17 AM CST Reuters - The cabinet on Thursday approved higher wages for employees of state-run firms, an official present at the meeting said.

India blows up pirate boat; tanker owners in talks (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 06:59 PM CST Reuters - An Indian warship blew up a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels, defying the foreign warships patrolling the seas off their anarchic country.

End of TV strike spells relief for Indian soap fans (Reuters) Posted: 20 Nov 2008 12:28 AM CST Reuters - Shooting of dozens of Indian television soap operas, hugely popular in South Asia, resumed on Thursday after a television industry workers' union called off a strike on an assurance of better pay and work conditions.

Boy thrown under train for writing love letter (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 11:56 PM CST Reuters - A teenage boy was thrashed, paraded through the streets with his head shaved and then thrown under a train in Bihar for daring to write a love letter to a girl from a different caste, police said on Thursday.

Lunchtime pastry-eating contest ends in death (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 11:24 PM CST Reuters - A lunchtime pastry-eating contest ended in tragedy when a young professional in Gurgaon was found unconscious in the washroom and choked to death before reaching hospital, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

U.S. teen lives 118 days without heart (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 08:19 PM CST Reuters - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.

Qaeda scorns Obama, urges attacks on United States (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 11:14 AM CST Reuters - Al Qaeda's second-in-command urged Muslims to keep up attacks on the "criminal" United States and criticised U.S. president-elect Barack Obama for promising to back Israel.

England win toss, elect to bat in third India ODI (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 10:12 PM CST Reuters - England skipper Kevin Pietersen won the toss and chose to bat first against India in the third one-day international on Thursday. The start was delayed by 45 minutes due to hazy conditions, reducing play to 49-overs per side. The forecast is for showers during the day.

India can be world beaters, says Laxman (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 05:03 AM CST Reuters - The emergence of Ishant Sharma as strike force and the resurgence of Zaheer Khan have given India's bowling the edge and made the team potential world beaters, senior test batsman Vangipurappu Laxman said.

Scrapped ships must be broken safely, EU says (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 08:49 AM CST Reuters - Ship breaking which can expose workers to asbestos and other hazards must be done more safely to cut down on high accident rates, health risks and pollution, the European Union said on Wednesday.

Soldiers, porters feared dead in Kashmir avalanches (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 05:03 AM CST Reuters - At least seven soldiers and three army porters are feared dead after avalanches triggered by heavy snow hit military posts near India's border with Pakistan in Kashmir, police said on Wednesday.

Rupee ends weaker than 50/dlr for first time (Reuters) Posted: 19 Nov 2008 06:22 AM CST Reuters - The rupee closed weaker than 50 per dollar on Wednesday for the first time as it was sideswiped by a falling stock market and demand for dollars to arbitrage a gap to offshore non-deliverable forward rates.

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