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• One dead, 9 hurt in gun attack on Togo soccer team (Reuters)
• India hockey players boycott World Cup training camp (Reuters)
• Govt to finalise GST rate, rollout date by end-Jan - min (Reuters)
• India boosts ties with Africa, expands credit lines (Reuters)
• Wawrinka advances to Chennai Open semis (Reuters)
• Boeing says India keen to acquire 10 C-17 aircraft (Reuters)
• Tablet? Slate? New devices emerge as Apple looms (Reuters)
• Tharanga and Jayawardene lead Sri Lanka to emphatic win (Reuters)
• Smell on flight halts operations at Boston airport (Reuters)
• SBI sees no rate rise in 6 months - chairman (Reuters)
• Govt pledges better infrastructure to fuel growth (Reuters)
• Reliance ups offer for Lyondell, valuing it at $13.5 bln - source (Reuters)
• Finmin adviser sees inflation subsiding - TV (Reuters)
• Soldiers kill 2 gunmen as violence rises in Kashmir (Reuters)
• ICC chief backs New Delhi despite pitch fiasco (Reuters)
• SBI says 18 pct loan growth possible in FY10 (Reuters)
• 2010/11 vehicle sales seen up 12-13 pct (Reuters)
• Q+A - India, Bangladesh dispute over proposed river dam (Reuters)

One dead, 9 hurt in gun attack on Togo soccer team (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 05:16 PM PST Reuters - Gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Togo's national football squad to the top African tournament in Angola on Friday, killing the driver and wounding nine others, including two players, a Togo team official said.

India hockey players boycott World Cup training camp (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 07:23 AM PST Reuters - India hockey players have boycotted a training camp ahead of next month's World Cup over non-payment of match fees, local media reported on Friday.

Govt to finalise GST rate, rollout date by end-Jan - min (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 05:47 AM PST Reuters - India is likely to finalise by this month-end the rate of a new Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the date of its implementation, a state minister said on Friday.

India boosts ties with Africa, expands credit lines (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:49 AM PST Reuters - India will increase credit lines to Africa to $5.4 billion until 2012 from the current $2.15 billion, and will also boost technical and economic support to the continent, it said on Friday.

Wawrinka advances to Chennai Open semis (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:58 AM PST Reuters - Swiss third seed Stanislas Wawrinka advanced to the Chennai Open semi-finals with a 7-6 6-4 victory over Michael Berrer of Germany on Friday.

Boeing says India keen to acquire 10 C-17 aircraft (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 08:37 AM PST Reuters - U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing Co said on Friday the Indian Air Force is keen to acquire 10 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, in a deal which Indian defence ministry officials said is potentially worth more than $2 billion.

Tablet? Slate? New devices emerge as Apple looms (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 07:53 AM PST Reuters - Call it a "slate" or call it a "tablet," the technology world is suddenly awash with a novel category of mobile devices seeking to grab the spotlight from a hugely anticipated product launch by Apple Inc later this month.

Tharanga and Jayawardene lead Sri Lanka to emphatic win (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:12 AM PST Reuters - Upul Tharanga and Mahela Jayawardene struck centuries as Sri Lanka romped to a nine-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the tri-series one-day tournament in Dhaka on Friday.

Smell on flight halts operations at Boston airport (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 09:04 AM PST Reuters - Boston's Logan International Airport was closed for about 30 minutes on Friday after a suspicious smell on a departing Delta Air Lines flight prompted the evacuation of 28 passengers and crew members, according to an airport spokesman.

SBI sees no rate rise in 6 months - chairman (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 06:24 AM PST Reuters - The chairman of India's largest commercial bank said on Friday demand for loans was rising slowly and interest rates were unlikely to rise over the next six months.

Govt pledges better infrastructure to fuel growth (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:33 AM PST Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to improve infrastructure, a day after the head of the world's biggest steelmaker Arcelor Mittal blasted the country over delays in getting projects off the ground.

Reliance ups offer for Lyondell, valuing it at $13.5 bln - source (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 03:16 AM PST Reuters - Reliance Industries Ltd has sweetened its offer to buy a controlling stake in LyondellBasell Industries that values the bankrupt chemicals firm at $13.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters.

Finmin adviser sees inflation subsiding - TV (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 03:05 AM PST Reuters - India's high inflation will subside soon, the chief economic adviser to the finance ministry told television channel CNBC-TV 18 on Friday.

Soldiers kill 2 gunmen as violence rises in Kashmir (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:24 AM PST Reuters - Government forces killed two heavily armed Islamist separatists on the outskirts of Srinagar on Friday, a day after soldiers shot dead two militants to end a daring siege of a city hotel.

ICC chief backs New Delhi despite pitch fiasco (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 01:57 AM PST Reuters - New Delhi is still likely to host matches for the 2011 World Cup despite concerns about the pitch, International Cricket Council president David Morgan has said.

SBI says 18 pct loan growth possible in FY10 (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:25 AM PST Reuters - Loan growth at State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, could reach 18 percent in the current financial year to end-March, its chairman said on Friday.

2010/11 vehicle sales seen up 12-13 pct (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:40 AM PST Reuters - India's domestic vehicle sales are seen rising 12 to 13 percent in 2010/11, but rising costs and any premature withdrawal of stimulus measures could dampen sales growth, a top industry official said on Friday.

Q+A - India, Bangladesh dispute over proposed river dam (Reuters) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 12:35 AM PST Reuters - A controversial dam project by India on a common river with Bangladesh is threatening to cloud a visit by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to New Delhi starting on Sunday.

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