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Sania Mirza, Shoaib Malik in cross-border wedding (Reuters)
Strong quake hits north of Andaman islands (Reuters)
Bharti in $9 bln deal for Zain Africa operations (Reuters)
Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees (Reuters)
U.N. Benazir Bhutto assassination inquiry report delayed (Reuters)
Hyderabad hit by new clashes (Reuters)
Holy man Nithyananda Swami resigns over sex scandal (Reuters)
Six firms to bid for pan-India 3G radio airwaves - govt (Reuters)
Sonia Gandhi to head National Advisory Council (Reuters)
Maradona has facial surgery after pet dog bite (Reuters)
Book asks who greater, Michelangelo or Leonardo? (Reuters)
POLL - Growth, inflows to push rupee higher (Reuters)
Govt delays mobile number portability to end-June (Reuters)
Thirteen Indian Kabaddi players fail dope tests (Reuters)
CERN scientists closer to understanding Big Bang (Reuters)
India says its vessels seized by Somali pirates (Reuters)
Google: Mobile services partially blocked in China (Reuters)
StanChart files prospectus for India listing (Reuters)
INTERVIEW - Fitch: India almost certain to tighten more (Reuters)

Sania Mirza, Shoaib Malik in cross-border wedding (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:31 AM PDT

Reuters - Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and Indian tennis player Sania Mirza, two of South Asia's best known sports personalities, are to marry in April, the players said on Tuesday.

Strong quake hits north of Andaman islands (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Reuters - A strong 6.4 magnitude quake struck on Tuesday north of the Andaman Islands, an area devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

Bharti in $9 bln deal for Zain Africa operations (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 12:46 PM PDT

Reuters - Bharti Airtel Ltd clinched a deal on Tuesday to buy most of the African operations of Kuwait's Zain for $9 billion, making it the No.2 cellular company on the African continent and setting India's biggest carrier a tough financial and management challenge.

Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Reuters - As Apple Inc gears up for the crush of customers expected for Saturday's iPad launch, employees who staff its retail stores are just as curious about the tablet as the fans who will line up outside.

U.N. Benazir Bhutto assassination inquiry report delayed (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 10:41 AM PDT

Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted an urgent request from Pakistan to delay presentation of a U.N. report on the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the world body said on Tuesday.

Hyderabad hit by new clashes (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 09:22 AM PDT

Reuters - Riot police fired rubber bullets and used teargas to disperse clashes between Hindus and Muslims that injured dozens in the IT hub of Hyderabad on Tuesday, police said.

Holy man Nithyananda Swami resigns over sex scandal (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:22 AM PDT

Reuters - Hindu holy man Nithyananda Swami, with thousands of followers across India, resigned as head of a religious organisation on Tuesday after police began investigating his role in a sex scandal, officials said.

Six firms to bid for pan-India 3G radio airwaves - govt (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:06 AM PDT

Reuters - Six of the nine applicants for the upcoming third-generation (3G) spectrum auction will bid for radio airwaves across all 22 telecoms zones in the country, according to a government notice on Tuesday.

Sonia Gandhi to head National Advisory Council (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Mar 2010 11:44 PM PDT

Reuters - Sonia Gandhi will chair the National Advisory Council (NAC) in a move that will strengthen the ruling party's pro-poor programmes in time for crucial state elections.

Maradona has facial surgery after pet dog bite (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:29 AM PDT

Reuters - Argentina's World Cup coach and soccer great Diego Maradona was bitten on his face by one of his pet dogs and plastic surgeons have repaired his upper lip, doctors and team officials said on Tuesday.

Book asks who greater, Michelangelo or Leonardo? (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:06 AM PDT

Reuters - A new book focuses on a 16th century competition that set out to discover who was the better artist -- Michelangelo or Leonardo Da Vinci, and says the outcome profoundly influenced the Renaissance titans' legacies.

POLL - Growth, inflows to push rupee higher (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 08:15 AM PDT

Reuters - Buoyant growth in the Indian economy will put a shine on the rupee in comparison to other BRIC currencies thanks to surging flows of funds into the emerging powerhouse, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday.

Govt delays mobile number portability to end-June (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:54 AM PDT

Reuters - The government has further delayed the introduction of mobile number portability to end-June, it said on Tuesday, as operators need to be ready for it by upgrading their networks.

Thirteen Indian Kabaddi players fail dope tests (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 01:26 AM PDT

Reuters - India has suspended 13 Kabaddi players for doping and ordered more tests on others just days ahead of a tournament being dubbed the World Kabaddi Cup.

CERN scientists closer to understanding Big Bang (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 06:23 AM PDT

Reuters - Scientists smashed sub-atomic particles into each other with record energy on Tuesday, aiming to recreate conditions just after the Big Bang that gave rise to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.

India says its vessels seized by Somali pirates (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 03:32 AM PDT

Reuters - India said it is trying to trace the whereabouts of nearly 100 sailors on seven Indian vessels taken captive by Somali pirates off the African coast.

Google: Mobile services partially blocked in China (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 07:47 AM PDT

Reuters - Google Inc said its mobile services have been partially blocked in China for two days, while searches on its Chinese-language site became erratic, about a week after the company shut its mainland Chinese portal and rerouted Web searches to a Hong Kong site.

StanChart files prospectus for India listing (Reuters)

Posted: 30 Mar 2010 04:58 AM PDT

Reuters - UK-based bank Standard Chartered plans to raise up to $750 million with an Indian share listing in the next three months to beef up its profile in what may soon become its biggest market.