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• Reliance to pay Atlas $1.7 bln for Marcellus stake (Reuters)
• Tiger on the tail of clubhouse leader Poulter (Reuters)
• BJP supports opening pension, insurance sector (Reuters)
• Chidambaram offers to resign over Maoist attack (Reuters)
• 3G spectrum auction starts, may take weeks (Reuters)
• A Minute With: Prakash Jha on "Rajneeti" (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka ruling alliance wins parliamentary majority (Reuters)
• INTERVIEW - Nokia plans launch of music service in India (Reuters)
• Vehicle sales seen at record high for 2nd yr (Reuters)
• Radioactive scrap injures four in Delhi (Reuters)
• India to open 100 Kashmir peaks to foreign climbers (Reuters)
• Jet Airways sees fares rise 10-15 pct (Reuters)
• BSE Sensex up 1.2 pct; ninth straight weekly gain (Reuters)
• Films poke fun at Jews, Muslims, suicide bombers (Reuters)
• Adviser sees inflation easing in two months (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka ruling alliance takes lead in polls (Reuters)
• IT firms to report rise in demand; eye on rupee (Reuters)
• Hillary's ashes won't be scattered on Mount Everest (Reuters)
• ASEAN urges Myanmar to hold fair election (Reuters)

Reliance to pay Atlas $1.7 bln for Marcellus stake (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:02 PM PDT Reuters - Indian energy giant Reliance Industries will pay $1.7 billion to form a joint venture at one of the most promising natural gas deposit regions in the U.S. with Atlas Energy, becoming the latest foreign company to invest in shale plays that are expected to be very lucrative.

Tiger on the tail of clubhouse leader Poulter (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:11 PM PDT Reuters - Tiger Woods birdied the two par-five holes on Augusta National's back nine to surge into a familiar position high up the leaderboard in the U.S. Masters second round on Friday.

BJP supports opening pension, insurance sector (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 08:31 AM PDT Reuters - India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party will not block government plans to open the insurance and pension sectors to foreign investments if it helps the people, but opposes a nuclear liability bill, its leader Nitin Gadkari said on Friday.

Chidambaram offers to resign over Maoist attack (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 06:24 AM PDT Reuters - Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram offered to resign after Maoist insurgents killed 76 police this week, officials said on Friday, as New Delhi mobilised more security forces to flush out the rebels from their forest bases.

3G spectrum auction starts, may take weeks (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:21 AM PDT Reuters - India kicked off an eagerly awaited multi-billion dollar spectrum auction on Friday that would help telecom firms in the world's fastest-growing wireless market offer premium third-generation (3G) services.

A Minute With: Prakash Jha on "Rajneeti" (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 10:00 AM PDT Reuters - Politics and Prakash Jha are a good match. In his films, the award-winning writer-director has often explored the dark underbelly of India's regional politics.

Sri Lanka ruling alliance wins parliamentary majority (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 09:05 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lankan President Mahinda's Rajapaksa's ruling coalition on Friday secured a parliamentary majority, election results showed, in his third big win since declaring victory over the Tamil Tigers last year.

INTERVIEW - Nokia plans launch of music service in India (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:58 AM PDT Reuters - Nokia Corp said on Friday it is planning a launch soon for its music downloading service in India following a China launch, as it looks to emerging markets to breathe new life into the struggling service.

Vehicle sales seen at record high for 2nd yr (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:08 AM PDT Reuters - Indian vehicles sales are expected to reach a record high for the second year in a row in 2010/11, as rising incomes in a rapidly growing economy boosts demand.

Radioactive scrap injures four in Delhi (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:25 AM PDT Reuters - Four people were hospitalised with severe burns after they were accidentally exposed to radioactive scrap in the Indian capital, police officials said on Friday.

India to open 100 Kashmir peaks to foreign climbers (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 12:07 AM PDT Reuters - Mountaineers, rejoice: India will, for the first time, allow foreign climbers to scale more than 100 high-altitude peaks this summer in the Himalayan state of Kashmir.

Jet Airways sees fares rise 10-15 pct (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:41 AM PDT Reuters - Jet Airways expects average fares to rise by 10-15 percent in April-June over the previous quarter, an official told reporters on Friday.

BSE Sensex up 1.2 pct; ninth straight weekly gain (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:16 AM PDT Reuters - The BSE Sensex logged its ninth straight weekly gain, its second longest weekly winning streak in nearly a year, to close 1.2 percent higher on Friday supported by earnings optimism and firm world equities.

Films poke fun at Jews, Muslims, suicide bombers (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 04:26 AM PDT Reuters - Nothing, it seems, is off limits to British comedy, with two films hitting theatres in the next month that poke fun at Muslims, Jews and, perhaps most controversially, suicide bombers.

Adviser sees inflation easing in two months (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:41 AM PDT Reuters - Inflationary pressures in India's economy will ease in a couple of months, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of the planning commission, said on Friday.

Sri Lanka ruling alliance takes lead in polls (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 05:08 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lanka's ruling alliance was confident of a sweeping victory on Friday in a parliamentary election, but said it may miss the two-thirds majority it needs to amend the constitution.

IT firms to report rise in demand; eye on rupee (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 03:34 AM PDT Reuters - A pick-up in global technology spending in 2010 will bolster the toplines of Indian outsourcers that get most of their revenue from exports, but a strengthening rupee and rising wages pose risks to profit margins.

Hillary's ashes won't be scattered on Mount Everest (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:57 AM PDT Reuters - The ashes of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to summit Mount Everest, will be kept at a memorial near the mountain and will not be scattered on the peak as he had desired, a sherpa official said on Friday.

ASEAN urges Myanmar to hold fair election (Reuters) Posted: 09 Apr 2010 01:19 AM PDT Reuters - Southeast Asian leaders urged Myanmar to hold fair and inclusive elections, and pledged to work together to sustain recovery from the global financial crisis as they wound up their summit on Friday.

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