| PM: Global stimulus must be sustained - FT (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 02:44 PM PDT  Reuters - Existing global stimulus plans are "probably adequate" for 2009, but policy-makers must act to extend support efforts into next year, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in an interview published on Tuesday.
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| Supreme Court bars Sanjay Dutt from contesting polls (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 11:58 AM PDT  Reuters - The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in connection with India's worst-ever bombing in 1993, to allow him to contest the April/May general election.
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| India key to Nepali hydropower ambition - Prachanda (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 02:01 PM PDT  Reuters - Nepal aims to boost its hydropower generation capacity more than 15-fold in 10 years, and the government is working to gain access to the vast Indian market for electricity exports, its premier said on Tuesday.
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| Bomb kills one in Assam (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:14 PM PDT  Reuters - At least one person was killed and 18 wounded when a bomb went off in Assam on Tuesday, police said.
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| Rahul Gandhi kicks off election campaign (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 03:08 AM PDT  Reuters - Rahul Gandhi, scion of India's most powerful family dynasty and touted as a future prime minister, hit the campaign trail on Tuesday with a populist message to boost the Congress party's efforts to regain power.
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| INTERVIEW - BJP says to push reforms, FDI (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:40 AM PDT  Reuters - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will speed up foreign investment projects in India if it wins a general election, with business hit by red tape, land protests and lack of government help, party president Rajnath Singh said.
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| Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for Lahore raid (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 05:40 AM PDT  Reuters - Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud said on Tuesday his group had carried out an assault on a police academy in the city of Lahore in retaliation for U.S. drone attacks on militants in Pakistan.
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| Elephants loom large as an issue in elections (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 11:50 PM PDT  Reuters - Along with Maoist rebels, rampaging elephants have become a key voter issue in Jharkhand ahead of the upcoming general election as political parties promise to save villagers from the animals.
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| Pakistan court allows Sharifs to take back Punjab (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:57 AM PDT  Reuters - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended a ruling barring former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his brother from holding elected office and restored their government in the key province of Punjab.
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| Prabhakaran's no-surrender vow nears last test (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 01:51 AM PDT  Reuters - COLOMBO (Reuters) -- Tamil Tiger founder Vellupillai Prabhakaran has done one thing better than anything else for 37 years: avoid capture.
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| Nandita Das turns director, raises eyebrows again (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2009 01:28 AM PDT  Reuters - After winning accolades for her acting in arthouse cinema, Nandita Das, a former jury member at Cannes, is drawing attention with her directorial debut as well: a film about one of India's worst religious riots.
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| Kerala hunts for fleeing Tamil Tiger rebels (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 07:46 PM PDT  Reuters - Heavily armed commandos locked down a stretch of the southern Indian coast on Monday and began a house-to-house search for a group of suspected Tamil Tiger rebels from Sri Lanka, police said.
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| WL Ross among bidders for Satyam - reports (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 09:39 PM PDT  Reuters - Private equity firm WL Ross & Co is among the bidders to buy a majority stake in fraud-tainted outsourcer Satyam Computer Services Ltd, two newspapers reported on Tuesday.
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| ELECTION EYE - Setback for opposition in Andhra Pradesh (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 09:11 PM PDT  Reuters - The following is a snapshot of recent developments in the general election campaign. (Items are from own sources unless stated.)
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| India's oldest horse racing club seeks revival (Reuters) Posted: 30 Mar 2009 10:15 PM PDT Reuters - Corporate sponsors and a richer purse are helping to revive one of the oldest and most popular legacies of British rule in India, the Royal Calcutta Turf Club (RCTC). |
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