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• G8 summit to pledge $15 bln to boost food supply (Reuters)
• Monsoon improves, reservoirs depleted (Reuters)
• BMW to re-think planned India launch of Mini (Reuters)
• Obama sees G8 climate progress, U.N. says not enough (Reuters)
• Maoists extort $60 mln/yr in mineral-rich state (Reuters)
• India says to host MEF trade talks in Sept (Reuters)
• Police arrest man accused of stalking Sania Mirza (Reuters)
• WPI falls again, rates unlikely to change (Reuters)
• Bootleg liquor kills at least 65 in Ahmedabad (Reuters)
• China's Hu says maintaining stability paramount (Reuters)
• ANALYSIS - India spawns global technology products, services (Reuters)
• More bodies, plane wreckage found off Tanzania (Reuters)
• G8 eyes climate as summit includes emerging powers (Reuters)
• Shortage of expertise curbs India's R&D ambitions (Reuters)
• Allure of R&D draws tech giants to India (Reuters)

G8 summit to pledge $15 bln to boost food supply (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:03 PM PDT Reuters - Leaders from rich nations at the G8 summit in Italy will commit $15 billion over three years to spur agricultural investment in poorer countries and combat hunger, a final draft statement seen by Reuters said.

Monsoon improves, reservoirs depleted (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 09:25 AM PDT Reuters - India's monsoon rains were 8 percent below normal in early July, reviving after the driest June in 83 years, but water in the main reservoirs has more than halved, putting at risk even winter-sown oilseeds and wheat.

BMW to re-think planned India launch of Mini (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:52 AM PDT Reuters - BMW, the world's largest premium car maker, is reconsidering a plan to launch its Mini hatchback in India by the end of this year, having already delayed it from 2007, a senior official said on Thursday.

Obama sees G8 climate progress, U.N. says not enough (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 12:11 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday the world had made "important strides" towards arresting climate change by agreeing to limit warming, but U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said it was simply not enough.

Maoists extort $60 mln/yr in mineral-rich state (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:47 AM PDT Reuters - Maoist rebels are extorting up to $60 million annually from business and industry across Chhattisgarh, home of one of India's largest mineral reserves, the state's chief minister said on Thursday.

India says to host MEF trade talks in Sept (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 11:28 AM PDT Reuters - India will host a meeting of trade ministers from the 17-nation Major Economies Forum (MEF) in September to discuss the Doha round of trade talks, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivsankar Menon said.

Police arrest man accused of stalking Sania Mirza (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:07 AM PDT Reuters - Police have arrested a man accused of stalking the country's top-ranked woman tennis player, Sania Mirza, local media reported on Thursday.

WPI falls again, rates unlikely to change (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 02:43 AM PDT Reuters - India's wholesale price index remained negative at the end of June, but with prices rising on a weekly basis and the impact of a fuel price hike still to be seen analysts said the central bank would keep interest rates steady.

Bootleg liquor kills at least 65 in Ahmedabad (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 09:16 AM PDT Reuters - At least 65 people have died in Ahmedabad after drinking bootleg liquor and the death toll could rise, police said on Thursday.

China's Hu says maintaining stability paramount (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 03:42 AM PDT Reuters - Chinese President Hu Jintao, forced to abandon a G8 summit in Italy by ethnic violence in restive Xinjiang, said that maintaining social stability in the energy-rich region was the "most urgent task", state television reported on Thursday.

ANALYSIS - India spawns global technology products, services (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 04:47 AM PDT Reuters - When Google Inc executives in India found that the country was largely "terra incognita" when it came to digital maps, they saw the makings of a new product.

More bodies, plane wreckage found off Tanzania (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 08:03 AM PDT Reuters - French marines and divers found aircraft parts and five more decomposing bodies off Tanzania's coast on Thursday, hundreds of miles from where a Yemeni jet crashed into the Indian Ocean, officials said.

G8 eyes climate as summit includes emerging powers (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 01:35 AM PDT Reuters - Leaders of the world's richest nations and major developing powers meet on Thursday to seek common ground on global warming and international trade, with the poorer countries seeking concessions.

Shortage of expertise curbs India's R&D ambitions (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 05:36 AM PDT Reuters - As India's dream of moving up the value chain in the tech industry is slowly realized, its giant bite into the research and development apple has led to some teething troubles.

Allure of R&D draws tech giants to India (Reuters) Posted: 09 Jul 2009 06:04 AM PDT Reuters - As the world prepared for the launch of Intel's server processor Xeon 7400 last September, engineers in Bangalore -- dubbed the Silicon Valley of India -- were putting the finishing touches on what would become the company's best-performing server chip yet. The chip was designed end-to-end by Intel Corp's digital enterprise group in Bangalore.

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