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Anger swells over slow relief in floods (Reuters)
Two killed in Madurai blast (Reuters)
Finmin: big reforms needed at World Bank, IMF (Reuters)
One-third of world's child brides from India - UNICEF (Reuters)
Rains trigger landslides in Nepal, 12 killed (Reuters)
Tax changes, investment needed in food processing - PM (Reuters)
Communication pioneers win 2009 physics Nobel (Reuters)
TRAI for per-second billing - reports (Reuters)
Watson cracks another century as Australia retain title (Reuters)
World boxing champion Mary Kom throws tantrum, suspended (Reuters)
Floods leave 2.5 million homeless, 250 dead (Reuters)
Australia v New Zealand - Champions trophy scoreboard (Reuters)
North Korea says ready to return to nuclear talks (Reuters)
Bharti CEO sees users doubling in less than 3 yrs (Reuters)
Obama breaks precedent by not meeting Dalai Lama (Reuters)
Microsoft says some Hotmail passwords exposed (Reuters)
Robert Kubica to join Renault - report (Reuters)

Anger swells over slow relief in floods (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 08:48 AM PDT

Reuters - Rescue workers with boats and helicopters struggled on Tuesday to deliver rations to about 5 million victims of flooding triggered by torrential rains in southern India.

Two killed in Madurai blast (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 08:30 AM PDT

Reuters - Two people were killed and eight injured in a blast at a railway station near Madurai on Tuesday, with officials suspecting fire crackers were the cause of the blast.

Finmin: big reforms needed at World Bank, IMF (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 07:49 AM PDT

Reuters - Far-reaching changes are needed in the governance structure of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to reflect a changed global economy, the finance minister said on Tuesday.

One-third of world's child brides from India - UNICEF (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 06:04 AM PDT

Reuters - More than a third of the world's child brides are from India, leaving children at an increased risk of exploitation despite the Asian giant's growing modernity and economic wealth, according to a UNICEF report.

Rains trigger landslides in Nepal, 12 killed (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT

Reuters - Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides in Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people in the west of the Himalayan nation, officials said.

Tax changes, investment needed in food processing - PM (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 01:13 AM PDT

Reuters - India needs to review the taxes on processed food, improve rural infrastructure and aim at increasing private investments in the sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday.

Communication pioneers win 2009 physics Nobel (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 03:41 AM PDT

Reuters - A pioneer in fibre-optics and two scientists who figured out how to turn light into electronic signals -- work that paved the way for the Internet age -- were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday.

TRAI for per-second billing - reports (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 11:52 PM PDT

Reuters - Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) plans to ask operators to bill customers on a per-second basis from the current per-minute billing, media reported on Tuesday, a move that could hit the revenue of companies.

Watson cracks another century as Australia retain title (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 08:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Shane Watson struck another commanding century to lead holders Australia to a six-wicket win over New Zealand in the Champions Trophy final on Monday.

World boxing champion Mary Kom throws tantrum, suspended (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 10:09 PM PDT

Reuters - India's MC Mary Kom, a four-times world champion, has been floored by a suspension for ranting at officials after her defeat at the national championships, local media reported on Tuesday.

Floods leave 2.5 million homeless, 250 dead (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:09 AM PDT

Reuters - Rescue workers used sandbags to stop a raging river from breaching its embankment near Vijayawada on Monday as floods triggered by heavy rains over the last week left 2.5 million people homeless.

Australia v New Zealand - Champions trophy scoreboard (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 08:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Scoreboard in the Champions Trophy final between Australia and New Zealand at Centurion on Saturday.

North Korea says ready to return to nuclear talks (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:28 AM PDT

Reuters - North Korea on Tuesday signalled it could return to nuclear disarmament talks it had declared dead six months ago, but a report it was near restoring its atomic plant underlined the secretive state would keep the stakes high.

Bharti CEO sees users doubling in less than 3 yrs (Reuters)

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 12:32 AM PDT

Reuters - Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's leading mobile phone operator with about 110 million customers, expects to reach a total of 200 million in less than three years, Chief Executive Manoj Kohli said on Tuesday.

Obama breaks precedent by not meeting Dalai Lama (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 07:27 PM PDT

Reuters - President Barack Obama will not meet the Dalai Lama during his five-day trip to the U.S. capital beginning on Monday, the first time in 18 years the exiled Tibetan leader has visited Washington without seeing the president.

Microsoft says some Hotmail passwords exposed (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 08:32 PM PDT

Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on Monday that passwords belonging to some users of its Hotmail email service were exposed on an Internet site, but had since been taken down.