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• Toyota faces new probe on Corolla steering (Reuters)
• Designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in wardrobe (Reuters)
• Tiger Woods to apologise, discuss future on Friday (Reuters)
• White House hails capture of Taliban leader (Reuters)
• Delhi police promise "foolproof" security for hockey World Cup (Reuters)
• Maoist massacre at police "picnic" shakes India (Reuters)
• Rain, Amla frustrate India's victory charge (Reuters)
• Pakistan government averts judicial confrontation (Reuters)
• Inflation a worry; may touch 10 pct by March (Reuters)
• Economy may grow over 8 pct in FY11 - Mukherjee (Reuters)
• U.S., Pakistan confirm arrest of Taliban commander (Reuters)
• Sikorsky eyes $8-12 bln India defence deals (Reuters)
• Gradual rollback of stimulus seen in 2010/11 (Reuters)
• BSE Sensex rises 1.3 pct; Reliance, Tata Steel up (Reuters)
• Bharti confident of Zain deal, shares rise 2 pct (Reuters)
• McQueen hanged himself in wardrobe - inquest (Reuters)
• Govt to move bill on foreign universities entry (Reuters)
• Govt tightens rules for bidders of highway projects (Reuters)
• India remove Kallis before rain stops play (Reuters)
• Bharti Airtel confident of Zain deal, shares rise 2 pct (Reuters)

Toyota faces new probe on Corolla steering (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 05:20 PM PST Reuters - U.S. regulators launched a preliminary investigation into reported steering problems on the Corolla sedan on Wednesday as Toyota Motor Corp faced questions from U.S. lawmakers on whether it had ignored red flags on safety before a wave of vehicle recalls. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has received more than 150 complaints about possible steering problems in 2009 and 2010 Corolla models, a U.S government official said.

Designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in wardrobe (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 10:49 AM PST Reuters - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in a wardrobe at his home last week on the eve of his mother's funeral, an inquest and British media reported on Wednesday.

Tiger Woods to apologise, discuss future on Friday (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST Reuters - Tiger Woods, the superstar golfer who took an indefinite break from the game in December after admitting marital infidelity, will make a public statement on Friday about his playing future.

White House hails capture of Taliban leader (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:46 PM PST Reuters - The White House called the capture of a top Taliban military commander "a big success" on Wednesday and said commanders reported a major offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan was going well.

Delhi police promise "foolproof" security for hockey World Cup (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 07:37 AM PST Reuters - Police have promised "foolproof" security for the men's hockey World Cup after a bomb blast last weekend raised safety concerns for visiting teams.

Maoist massacre at police "picnic" shakes India (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 02:31 AM PST Reuters - A daylight Maoist rebel attack on a police camp in West Bengal that killed at least 24 people has raised a storm of criticism that India is unable to guard against rising militant violence in some key industrial and mining areas.

Rain, Amla frustrate India's victory charge (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 05:46 AM PST Reuters - Top-ranked India will bank heavily on their spinners on the last day after rain and Hashim Amla frustrated their bid for a series-levelling victory in the second test against South Africa on Wednesday.

Pakistan government averts judicial confrontation (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:58 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan's government averted a potentially destabilising dispute with the judiciary on Wednesday, withdrawing orders from the president appointing two judges that the Supreme Court had opposed.

Inflation a worry; may touch 10 pct by March (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 02:31 AM PST Reuters - India's high food prices have started to ease and will dip further next month, the farm minister said, while the finance minister is still worried about inflation amid signs that the headline number may hit 10 percent by March.

Economy may grow over 8 pct in FY11 - Mukherjee (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 11:24 PM PST Reuters - India's economy may grow at more than 8 percent in the 2010/11 financial year, after growing at around 7.5 percent in the current fiscal year ending March, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Wednesday.

U.S., Pakistan confirm arrest of Taliban commander (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 09:44 AM PST Reuters - The Pakistani military and a senior U.S. diplomat confirmed on Wednesday that the Afghan Taliban's top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, had been captured.

Sikorsky eyes $8-12 bln India defence deals (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:52 AM PST Reuters - Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, an arm of United Technologies, is eyeing defence deals worth $8-12 billion in India by 2018 and plans to manufacture its Black Hawk helicopters locally, a top official said on Wednesday.

Gradual rollback of stimulus seen in 2010/11 (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 12:41 AM PST Reuters - The government will gradually wind down its growth-supporting stimulus over the next fiscal year beginning on April 1, but will still need to borrow a record amount from the market, a Reuters survey of economists showed.

BSE Sensex rises 1.3 pct; Reliance, Tata Steel up (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:40 AM PST Reuters - MUMBAI (Reuters) The BSE Sensex climbed for a second day on Wednesday, rising 1.25 percent to its highest close in two weeks, as foreign appetite for risk revived on the back of higher world equities.

Bharti confident of Zain deal, shares rise 2 pct (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 06:24 AM PST Reuters - Bharti Airtel does not see any funding issues for its planned $9 billion deal to buy Zain's African assets and is confident to seal the takeover by the March 25 deadline, its chief was quoted as saying in a interview.

McQueen hanged himself in wardrobe - inquest (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 03:38 AM PST Reuters - British fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in a wardrobe at his home in central London after leaving a note at the scene, an inquest into his death heard on Wednesday.

Govt to move bill on foreign universities entry (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 09:59 PM PST Reuters - The government will introduce a bill to allow the entry of foreign universities during the parliament session that begins on Monday, an official said, a long-awaited reform that would revamp the country's education system.

Govt tightens rules for bidders of highway projects (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 02:01 AM PST Reuters - The government has barred firms from bidding for new highway projects if they have over two projects awaiting financial closure, a senior official of the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) told Reuters.

India remove Kallis before rain stops play (Reuters) Posted: 17 Feb 2010 02:09 AM PST Reuters - South Africa lost the key wicket of Jacques Kallis just minutes before rain stopped play as the tourists struggled to avoid defeat in the second and final test against India on Wednesday.

Bharti Airtel confident of Zain deal, shares rise 2 pct (Reuters) Posted: 16 Feb 2010 10:07 PM PST Reuters - Bharti Airtel does not see any funding issues for its planned $9 billion deal to buy Zain's African assets and is confident to seal the takeover by the March 25 deadline, its chief was quoted as saying in a interview.

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