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• Bodies pile up after Haiti quake; aid jams airport (Reuters)
• Half a million bathe in Ganges; crush kills 7 (Reuters)
• Pakistan Taliban chief said targeted by U.S. drone (Reuters)
• Reliance Infratel IPO gets SEBI nod - sources (Reuters)
• Inflation jumps, RBI seen tightening (Reuters)
• Govt to sell 10 pct stake in state-run EIL (Reuters)
• Panel to look into fin reforms - finmin (Reuters)
• China defends censorship after Google threat (Reuters)
• Political Twitters flutter India's old guard (Reuters)
• Opposition wants beef ban at Commonwealth Games (Reuters)
• Plastic paving for eco-friendly Indian roads (Reuters)
• Magazine identifies top over-exploited travel picks, Jaisalmer makes the list (Reuters)
• Government taking steps to tame inflation - adviser (Reuters)
• FACTBOX - Penpix of foreign entrepreneurs setting up in Britain (Reuters)
• WTO Doha round deal unlikely in 2010 - U.S. business (Reuters)
• Food price index up 17.28 pct y/y on Jan 2 - govt (Reuters)
• FEATURE - Britain lures talent: sci-tech entrepreneurs move in (Reuters)
• ADB says too early to end stimulus; no China bubble (Reuters)

Bodies pile up after Haiti quake; aid jams airport (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:52 PM PST Reuters - Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed in to Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.

Half a million bathe in Ganges; crush kills 7 (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 06:53 AM PST Reuters - Hundreds of thousands of Hindus bathed in waters considered sacred across large parts of India to mark the start of the "Kumbh Mela" festival on Thursday, with at least seven people killed in a stampede in West Bengal.

Pakistan Taliban chief said targeted by U.S. drone (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:18 AM PST Reuters - A U.S. drone fired two missiles on Thursday at a compound in northwest Pakistan where Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud was believed to have been, but his fate was not known, Pakistani officials said.

Reliance Infratel IPO gets SEBI nod - sources (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:18 AM PST Reuters - Reliance Communications has got the market regulator's nod for its planned initial public offering of its tower unit, two banking sources with direct knowledge of the development said on Thursday.

Inflation jumps, RBI seen tightening (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:55 AM PST Reuters - Indian inflation jumped to a one-year high in December, reinforcing views the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will start increasing reserve requirements later this month to contain price pressures as the economic recovery strengthens.

Govt to sell 10 pct stake in state-run EIL (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 07:46 AM PST Reuters - The government on Thursday approved the sale of a 10 percent stake in state-run Engineers India Ltd, the latest in a list of planned sell-offs aimed at raising funds to cut India's fiscal deficit.

Panel to look into fin reforms - finmin (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 04:24 AM PST Reuters - A panel of experts will review over the next three months how to encourage foreign investment in the financial sector such as the bonds and the stock markets, the government said on Thursday.

China defends censorship after Google threat (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:09 AM PST Reuters - China defended its extensive censorship and brushed aside hacking claims on Thursday, telling companies not to buck state control of the Internet after U.S. search giant Google threatened to quit the country.

Political Twitters flutter India's old guard (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:15 PM PST Reuters - When deputy foreign minister Shashi Tharoor tweets to his half-a-million followers, whether criticising tough visa restrictions or joking about holy cows, the old guard of the ruling Congress party shudders.

Opposition wants beef ban at Commonwealth Games (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 10:29 PM PST Reuters - Bhartiya Janata Party wants to ban beef from the menu at this year's Commonwealth Games in New Delhi to showcase the country's "cultural values and age-old traditions".

Plastic paving for eco-friendly Indian roads (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:06 PM PST Reuters - A waste management company has found a novel use for the heaps of ecologically unsound plastic that litter Bangalore: it's turning it into roads.

Magazine identifies top over-exploited travel picks, Jaisalmer makes the list (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:00 PM PST Reuters - Travellers yearning to explore prehistoric Stonehenge or Machu Piccu's Inca ruins better start packing, as both are on a list of endangered destinations, according to a British travel magazine.

Government taking steps to tame inflation - adviser (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:57 PM PST Reuters - The government is taking a host of measures to tame inflation, Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser at the finance ministry said on Thursday.

FACTBOX - Penpix of foreign entrepreneurs setting up in Britain (Reuters) Posted: 14 Jan 2010 12:12 AM PST Reuters - Government data show Britain is countering the "brain drain" in science and innovation as entrepreneurial talent that might previously have gone elsewhere moves in.

WTO Doha round deal unlikely in 2010 - U.S. business (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:06 PM PST Reuters - U.S. business groups said on Wednesday they expect slow progress in world trade talks in 2010 despite a goal set by President Barack Obama and other leaders to finish the long-running negotiations this year.

Food price index up 17.28 pct y/y on Jan 2 - govt (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 11:22 PM PST Reuters - The food price index rose 17.28 percent in the 12 months to Jan. 2, while the fuel index was up 6.25 percent, the government said in a statement on Thursday.

FEATURE - Britain lures talent: sci-tech entrepreneurs move in (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 08:34 PM PST Reuters - It took only a few weeks of research for Romanian entrepreneur Emi Gal to decide where to base his digital media firm, and his choice confounds a fairly enduring set of stereotypes about Britain's global appeal.

ADB says too early to end stimulus; no China bubble (Reuters) Posted: 13 Jan 2010 09:37 PM PST Reuters - The head of the Asian Development Bank warned it was too early for Asian countries to end stimulus policies started during the financial crisis and said he saw no big risk of price bubbles in China.

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