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• Australia reaches out to India with climate aid (Reuters)
• Intel to pay AMD $1.25 bln, settle all disputes (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka top general retires, may run for president (Reuters)
• Pakistan's disputed Northern Areas go to polls (Reuters)
• Obama tops Forbes list of world's most powerful people (Reuters)
• L&T to sell Satyam shares worth $65 mln - TV (Reuters)
• Govt approves $2.34 bln road projects - fin min (Reuters)
• Weird and wacky world records tumble around globe (Reuters)
• Dhaka to revive talks on Myanmar-India gas link (Reuters)
• Govt to infuse equity into Air India by March - Praful Patel (Reuters)
• India to play one-day series and two tests in Bangladesh (Reuters)
• Strong industry data adds to stimulus debate (Reuters)
• Food price index rises 13.68 pct yr/yr Oct 31 (Reuters)
• Ranbaxy gets WHO approval for AIDS drug (Reuters)
• China warns Obama about Dalai Lama, citing Lincoln on slavery (Reuters)
• Rising jobless casts shadow over world trade - Lamy (Reuters)
• Infosys BPO buys U.S. firm, to pay $38 mln upfront (Reuters)
• Nepal Maoists block PM's office over army chief row (Reuters)
• SPECIAL REPORT - India's food dilemma: high prices or shortages (Reuters)

Australia reaches out to India with climate aid (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 09:35 AM PST Reuters - Australia said it will invest $50 million to develop green technology in India in a sign Canberra is trying to bridge differences with New Delhi over climate change negotiations.

Intel to pay AMD $1.25 bln, settle all disputes (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:18 PM PST Reuters - Intel Corp will pay rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc $1.25 billion to settle all outstanding legal disputes, in a move that can hasten the resolution of Intel's antitrust troubles.

Sri Lanka top general retires, may run for president (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 06:54 AM PST Reuters - Sri Lanka's top general, who engineered the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam after a 25-year war, submitted his resignation on Thursday amid speculation he will run for president.

Pakistan's disputed Northern Areas go to polls (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:53 AM PST Reuters - Voters in Pakistan's mountainous far north went to the polls on Thursday to elect an assembly for their district as part of an autonomy package that has angered old rival India.

Obama tops Forbes list of world's most powerful people (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 03:07 AM PST Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama can add another accolade to his already long list of awards after being named the world's most powerful person in an inaugural ranking by Forbes magazine.

L&T to sell Satyam shares worth $65 mln - TV (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:57 AM PST Reuters - Leading Indian engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro Ltd will raise $65 million by selling one-third of its stake in Mahindra Satyam Ltd on Friday, a television channel said on Thursday.

Govt approves $2.34 bln road projects - fin min (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:08 AM PST Reuters - A government panel has approved eight road projects worth 108.8 billion rupees ($2.34 billion), the finance ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Weird and wacky world records tumble around globe (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:06 AM PST Reuters - Manjit Singh, a 59-year-old security consultant from Leicester, England known as the "Ironman", on Thursday pulled a double-decker bus weighing more than eight tonnes over a distance of 21.2 metres with his hair.

Dhaka to revive talks on Myanmar-India gas link (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:49 AM PST Reuters - Bangladesh will restart negotiations over a long standing proposal for a pipeline across its territory that would take natural gas from Myanmar to India, a senior energy official said on Thursday.

Govt to infuse equity into Air India by March - Praful Patel (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:31 AM PST Reuters - The government will infuse equity into ailing state-run carrier Air India by March, Aviation Minister Praful Patel told reporters on Thursday.

India to play one-day series and two tests in Bangladesh (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 05:35 AM PST Reuters - India will play in a tri-nation tournament and a two-test series against Bangladesh in January, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Thursday.

Strong industry data adds to stimulus debate (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 12:03 AM PST Reuters - Industrial output grew a faster-than-expected 9.1 percent in September from a year earlier, helped by stimulus measures and adding to the debate over when the government should pull back from its aggressive policies to drive growth.

Food price index rises 13.68 pct yr/yr Oct 31 (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 10:53 PM PST Reuters - The food price index was up 13.68 percent in the 12 months to Oct. 31, while the fuel index was down 1.71 percent, the government said on Thursday.

Ranbaxy gets WHO approval for AIDS drug (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 04:08 AM PST Reuters - Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's top drug maker by sales, said on Thursday it received the World Health Organization pre-qualification for its Indinavir anti-retroviral AIDS drug.

China warns Obama about Dalai Lama, citing Lincoln on slavery (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:45 AM PST Reuters - A Chinese government spokesman said Barack Obama should be especially sympathetic to China's opposition to the Dalai Lama and Tibetan independence, as a black president who lauded Abraham Lincoln for helping abolish slavery.

Rising jobless casts shadow over world trade - Lamy (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 09:40 PM PST Reuters - Rising unemployment is the biggest threat to free trade and could spark greater protectionist policies around the globe, the head of the World Trade Organisation said on Thursday.

Infosys BPO buys U.S. firm, to pay $38 mln upfront (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 11:12 PM PST Reuters - The back-office services unit of Infosys Technologies Ltd, India's No. 2 software exporter, will acquire U.S.-based McCamish Systems for an upfront payment of $38 million to boost its service offerings.

Nepal Maoists block PM's office over army chief row (Reuters) Posted: 12 Nov 2009 01:31 AM PST Reuters - Thousands of former Maoist rebels blocked entrances to the prime minister's office and other ministries on Thursday in the worst standoff since they quit the government earlier this year.

SPECIAL REPORT - India's food dilemma: high prices or shortages (Reuters) Posted: 11 Nov 2009 05:55 PM PST Reuters - For a man who will inherit vast tracts of fertile farmland in Punjab, India's grain bowl, Jaswinder Singh made what seemed to him a logical career move -- he took a job with a telecoms company in New Delhi.

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