| RBI cuts rates after growth hit more than expected (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 08:06 AM PST  Reuters - The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut its short-term lending and borrowing rates by 50 basis points each on Wednesday, saying the country's growth had been hit more than expected by the global financial crisis and downturn.
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| Pakistani police anxious for break on team attack (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:55 PM PST  Reuters - Pakistani police were searching on Thursday for a breakthrough in their investigation nearly 48 hours after gunmen attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team and then melted away.
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| Australian umpire angry over Pakistan security (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:55 PM PST  Reuters - One of the two Australian umpires caught up in the attack by gunmen on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan said he felt "let down" by the security arrangements for the tour.
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| Lack of security left us sitting ducks - Broad (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:28 PM PST  Reuters - International Cricket Council (ICC) match referee Chris Broad said he and colleagues were left like "sitting ducks" by a lack of security in Tuesday's attack on Sri Lanka's team bus in Lahore that left six players injured.
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| India ready for more games if Pakistan lose World Cup rights (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 03:13 PM PST  Reuters - India are ready to host extra matches in the 2011 World Cup if Pakistan lose staging rights in the wake of the attack on the Sri Lankan team, the head of the Indian cricket board said on Wednesday.
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| Lahore attack grips Pakistan, police hunt gunmen (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 07:18 AM PST  Reuters - Pakistani investigators were following "important leads" to identify who was behind the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday.
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| India steps up effort to bring back Gandhi memorabilia (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:28 AM PST  Reuters - The government intensified efforts to buy back some personal belongings of iconic leader Mahatma Gandhi from an auction in New York as a New Delhi court injunction may have failed to halt the sale.
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| India plan massive security for 2010 Games (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 09:18 AM PST  Reuters - The 2010 Commonwealth Games will adopt security methods similar to those used at the Beijing Olympics, its chief said on Wednesday, allaying fears the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team could scupper the event.
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| India wants Twenty20 league tweaked due to security (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 12:28 AM PST  Reuters - India's cricket board is looking to reschedule its popular Twenty20 league after the government, worried by Tuesday's attack in Lahore, said the security forces would be preoccupied with general elections.
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| Congress buys rights to Slumdog tune "Jai Ho" (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 01:08 AM PST  Reuters - Aiming to spice up its election campaign, Congress party has bought the rights to "Jai Ho", the Oscar-winning song from "Slumdog Millionaire".
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| Indian Sikhs take up French turban rights issue (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 06:34 AM PST  Reuters - Indian Sikhs urged the government on Wednesday to ask France to withdraw a ban on wearing turbans in public schools, officials said.
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| Slain Pakistani driver pays for love of cricket (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 02:55 AM PST  Reuters - Driver Zafar Khan was with the New Zealand cricket team in 2002 when a suicide bomber struck outside their hotel in Karachi.
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| Pakistan following "important leads" in Lahore probe (Reuters) Posted: 04 Mar 2009 05:32 AM PST  Reuters - Pakistani investigators are following "important leads" to identify who was behind the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Wednesday.
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| We won't negotiate with Taliban - Zardari (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 11:47 PM PST  Reuters - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said that his government will not negotiate with Taliban militants, adding that the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team showed the evil the country faced.
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| Long winter looms for Pakistan cricket (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2009 09:00 PM PST  Reuters - A billion fans in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka -- all test nations -- have used the game of cricket as a balm for their myriad problems.
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