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• Supreme Court rejects CVC, blow for Congress (Reuters)
• Food inflation eases, but rate rise seen (Reuters)
• On fire Afridi lifts ragged Pakistan to victory (Reuters)
• Facebook valued at $65 billion in new investment (Reuters)
• SBI chief: interest rates have peaked or near peak (Reuters)
• Rebels push west, doubt over Chavez's Libya plan (Reuters)
• Pakistan vows to battle extremism after minister slain (Reuters)
• Yunus begins legal fight over removal from Grameen (Reuters)
• EXCLUSIVE - Twitter's Stone: no IPO or funding talks (Reuters)
• South Africa steamroll Dutch for second win (Reuters)
• Pakistan beat Canada by 46 runs in Group A match (Reuters)
• Guardiola hospitalised with spinal disc hernia (Reuters)
• Cabinet may rule on Cairn-Vedanta next week (Reuters)
• Pakistan slump to below par 184 against Canada (Reuters)
• FACTBOX - How Apple's iPad 2 compares to rivals and iPad (Reuters)
• India pays $2 billion to clear Iran oil import dues (Reuters)
• GST implementation unlikely in April 2012 - Revenue secy (Reuters)
• Djokovic out but Nadal relishing Davis Cup opener (Reuters)

Supreme Court rejects CVC, blow for Congress (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 09:55 AM PST Reuters - The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed the government's appointment of a top anti-graft official for involvement in a palm oil import scam, delivering another blow to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's coalition.

Food inflation eases, but rate rise seen (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:48 PM PST Reuters - Food inflation eased in mid February following a drop in prices of vegetables and milk, but high headline inflation would keep the pressure on the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to raise interest rates this month.

On fire Afridi lifts ragged Pakistan to victory (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:03 PM PST Reuters - Shahid Afridi made up for Pakistan's ragged performance with the bat by collecting his second five-wicket haul of the World Cup as the 1992 champions beat Canada by 46 runs on Thursday.

Facebook valued at $65 billion in new investment (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:27 PM PST Reuters - Investment firm General Atlantic is investing in Facebook, valuing the leading social network at $65 billion, representing a 30 percent boost from its last big investment in January, according to a report on CNBC.

SBI chief: interest rates have peaked or near peak (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:28 AM PST Reuters - Interest rates in India have peaked or are near a peak, O.P. Bhatt, chairman of State Bank of India, the country's largest lender said on Thursday.

Rebels push west, doubt over Chavez's Libya plan (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 04:05 PM PST Reuters - Libyan rebels pushed west on Thursday, extending their grip on a key coast road as Muammar Gaddafi received a warning he would be held to account at The Hague for suspected crimes by his security forces.

Pakistan vows to battle extremism after minister slain (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:39 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan must not buckle to extremism, President Asif Ali Zardari said on Thursday, a day after Taliban militants killed his government's only Christian minister for challenging a law on blasphemy towards Islam.

Yunus begins legal fight over removal from Grameen (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 07:48 AM PST Reuters - Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus launched a legal battle on Thursday against his removal from the top post of the microlending bank he founded, a dismissal seen as part of a vendetta with the prime minister.

EXCLUSIVE - Twitter's Stone: no IPO or funding talks (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:14 AM PST Reuters - Twitter has no plans to go public any time soon and does not need additional funds because it is making money, the co-founder of the popular microblogging site said.

South Africa steamroll Dutch for second win (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:28 AM PST Reuters - South Africa crushed the Netherlands by 231 runs in a lop-sided Group B match to record their second successive victory in the World Cup on Thursday.

Pakistan beat Canada by 46 runs in Group A match (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 08:39 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan beat Canada by 46 runs in their World Cup Group A match on Thursday.

Guardiola hospitalised with spinal disc hernia (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 06:09 AM PST Reuters - Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has been diagnosed with a spinal disc hernia after he was admitted to hospital overnight suffering from acute lower back pain, the La Liga club said on Thursday.

Cabinet may rule on Cairn-Vedanta next week (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:44 AM PST Reuters - The cabinet could give its final decision next week on granting approval to Cairn Energy's plan to sell its Indian assets to Vedanta Resources, Oil Minister S. Jaipal Reddy said on Thursday.

Pakistan slump to below par 184 against Canada (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 05:19 AM PST Reuters - Pakistan, one of the tournament favourites, slumped to a well below-par 184 off 43 overs against the unfancied Canada in their World Cup Group A match on Thursday.

FACTBOX - How Apple's iPad 2 compares to rivals and iPad (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:26 AM PST Reuters - iPad 2

India pays $2 billion to clear Iran oil import dues (Reuters) Posted: 03 Mar 2011 03:26 AM PST Reuters - India has paid 1.5 billion euros ($2.08 billion) to clear pending dues for oil imports from Iran, the country's oil minister said, over three months after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) ended a long-standing clearing house system.

GST implementation unlikely in April 2012 - Revenue secy (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 11:47 PM PST Reuters - The government is unlikely to implement the Goods and Services Tax in April, 2012, Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra said on Thursday.

Djokovic out but Nadal relishing Davis Cup opener (Reuters) Posted: 02 Mar 2011 08:32 PM PST Reuters - Holders Serbia will be without their best player Novak Djokovic when they begin the defence of their Davis Cup title on Friday but his absence is unlikely to cause too much alarm.

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