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• U.S. pastor cancels Koran-burning plan (Reuters)
• Air India bomb perjury trial starts in Canada (Reuters)
• Sonia Gandhi backs improved rights for farmers (Reuters)
• Forget dengue, enjoy India, says Sports Minister (Reuters)
• India not treating AIDS patients early - Global Fund (Reuters)
• Nuclear-armed Pakistan expected to chair IAEA board (Reuters)
• Myanmar says China top ally, vote won't affect ties (Reuters)
• India to conduct first caste census in 80 years (Reuters)
• No signs of slowdown in industrial output growth - adviser (Reuters)
• Indian GP will be ready in time, says official (Reuters)
• India leads calls for action to stop Koran burning (Reuters)
• Food inflation picks up in late August (Reuters)
• Rudisha's Commonwealth pull-out defended by Kenya (Reuters)
• Rains 26 pct above normal in past week - Met (Reuters)
• Govt plans to set up 500 bln rupee power fund (Reuters)
• Bomb blast kills 10 in Pakistan's Kurram region (Reuters)

U.S. pastor cancels Koran-burning plan (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:19 PM PDT Reuters - A Christian pastor on Thursday canceled a plan to burn copies of the Koran at his obscure Florida church, which had drawn international condemnation and a warning from President Barack Obama that it could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings.

Air India bomb perjury trial starts in Canada (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 01:41 PM PDT Reuters - A Canadian man's own actions will prove he lied to a court about having no knowledge of the conspiracy that led to the deadly bombing of Air India Flight 182 in 1985, prosecutors said at the start of a perjury trial on Thursday.

Sonia Gandhi backs improved rights for farmers (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:08 AM PDT Reuters - Ruling Congress party head Sonia Gandhi, the country's most powerful politician, has thrown her support behind greater land rights for farmers as the issue becomes a key political battleground for the government.

Forget dengue, enjoy India, says Sports Minister (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 07:40 AM PDT Reuters - Athletes should not let the outbreak of dengue fever or security concerns ruin their experience at next month's Commonwealth Games, Indian Sports Minister Manohar Singh Gill said on Thursday.

India not treating AIDS patients early - Global Fund (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 04:15 AM PDT Reuters - Thousands of AIDS patients in India are not receiving treatment on time, underscoring huge challenges the country faces as it combats the disease, the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said on Thursday.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan expected to chair IAEA board (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 08:26 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan is expected to become the next head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact and home to a nuclear smuggler who supplied Iran and North Korea, diplomats say.

Myanmar says China top ally, vote won't affect ties (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 07:21 AM PDT Reuters - Myanmar's reclusive leader on Thursday reassured Beijing that China is a vital ally and said an upcoming election and planned power transfer to a civilian government would not affect relations.

India to conduct first caste census in 80 years (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:14 AM PDT Reuters - India will carry out its first caste census in 80 years, in a controversial decision that could define how political parties campaign for votes and help government schemes offering quotas to lower castes.

No signs of slowdown in industrial output growth - adviser (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 07:11 AM PDT Reuters - There are no signs of a slowdown in India's industrial output growth, Kaushik Basu, the finance ministry's chief economic adviser said on Thursday.

Indian GP will be ready in time, says official (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:48 AM PDT Reuters - The circuit for next year's Indian Grand Prix will be ready in time and tickets for the first Formula One race in the country will go on sale by the end of this year, an official said on Thursday.

India leads calls for action to stop Koran burning (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 05:33 AM PDT Reuters - India led calls on Thursday for the United States to intervene to halt a small church's plan to burn copies of the Koran in commemoration of the Sept. 11 attacks and urged a media blackout to calm tensions.

Food inflation picks up in late August (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 03:37 AM PDT Reuters - NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's food inflation accelerated in late August, supporting the case for more interest rate rises, while a top government adviser said price pressures would not ease immediately.

Rudisha's Commonwealth pull-out defended by Kenya (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:10 AM PDT Reuters - Kenyan athletics chiefs have defended world 800 metres record holder David Rudisha's decision to pull out of next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi.

Rains 26 pct above normal in past week - Met (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 02:00 AM PDT Reuters - India's vital monsoon rains were 26 percent above normal in the week to Sept. 8, compared with 16 percent above normal in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday.

Govt plans to set up 500 bln rupee power fund (Reuters) Posted: 09 Sep 2010 12:27 AM PDT Reuters - India plans to set up a 500-billion-rupee debt fund for the power sector, Power Secretary P. Uma Shankar said on Thursday.

Bomb blast kills 10 in Pakistan's Kurram region (Reuters) Posted: 08 Sep 2010 11:15 PM PDT Reuters - A roadside bomb killed 10 people and wounded four in Pakistan's Kurram tribal region on the Afghan border on Thursday, a government official told Reuters.

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