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• Ratan Tata, Anil Ambani to face PAC over 2G probe (Reuters)
• Ponting to step down as Australia captain - reports (Reuters)
• Global majors shun India oil, gas block auction (Reuters)
• Protestors and police clash in run-up to India-Pakistan semi (Reuters)
• India, Pakistan talk in shadow of "cricket diplomacy" (Reuters)
• Japan finds plutonium at stricken nuclear plant (Reuters)
• Jobs, inflation bigger India worries than corruption - Mobius (Reuters)
• Asia braces for its date with demographic destiny (Reuters)
• India cheers rising tiger numbers amid habitat concerns (Reuters)
• Web site to pay $950,000 for Beatles piracy (Reuters)
• Rajaratnam brother removed Galleon records - filings (Reuters)
• Rebels push west before Libya crisis talks (Reuters)
• Highly radioactive water leaks from Japanese nuclear plant (Reuters)
• Europe, U.S. converging on Internet privacy (Reuters)
• Afridi accuses Indian media of negative campaign (Reuters)
• Kashmir army officers expect World Cup to improve ties (Reuters)
• Reuters journalists freed in Syria (Reuters)
• India batsmen face off with Pakistan bowlers (Reuters)
• Army says Mubarak, family forced to stay in Egypt (Reuters)
• Gul says scandal has made team stronger (Reuters)

Ratan Tata, Anil Ambani to face PAC over 2G probe (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:49 AM PDT Reuters - Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani will appear before the Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that is probing the multi-billion-dollar telecoms licencing scandal, their companies said in separate statements on Monday.

Ponting to step down as Australia captain - reports (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:02 PM PDT Reuters - Ricky Ponting, the most successful captain in test cricket, will step down as Australia skipper later on Tuesday but continue as a batsman with the team, local media reported.

Global majors shun India oil, gas block auction (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 10:48 AM PDT Reuters - India failed to woo global players in its latest oil and gas exploration licensing round due to its poor track record of commercial discoveries and sluggish bureaucracy, with most of the 33 blocks going to domestic firms.

Protestors and police clash in run-up to India-Pakistan semi (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:05 AM PDT Reuters - Angry protestors clashed with police on Monday outside the stadium in Mohali where India will meet Pakistan in a World Cup semi-final which has captured the imagination of the sub-continent.

India, Pakistan talk in shadow of "cricket diplomacy" (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:55 AM PDT Reuters - Indian and Pakistani officials began their first formal peace talks since the 2008 Mumbai attacks on Monday in a meeting pushed into the background by the decision of their leaders to meet during a World Cup cricket match between the two countries.

Japan finds plutonium at stricken nuclear plant (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:17 PM PDT Reuters - Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm on Tuesday over Japan's protracted battle to contain the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

Jobs, inflation bigger India worries than corruption - Mobius (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 06:50 AM PDT Reuters - Veteran emerging markets investor Mark Mobius cited unemployment, inflation and water as key concerns for India but downplayed worries about corruption, which has spooked many investors in the country.

Asia braces for its date with demographic destiny (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PDT Reuters - If demography is destiny, as the French philosopher Auguste Comte put it, then Asia faces daunting challenges in the coming decades.

India cheers rising tiger numbers amid habitat concerns (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT Reuters - The number of Indian tigers living in the wild rose to 1,706 at the latest count, giving a boost to conservation efforts for the endangered species in the country with the world's largest population of the big cats.

Web site to pay $950,000 for Beatles piracy (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 02:14 PM PDT Reuters - The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band's EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed on Monday.

Rajaratnam brother removed Galleon records - filings (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 03:35 PM PDT Reuters - A former Galleon Group trader contends he saw a brother of accused hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam remove notebooks from their office on the day of Rajaratnam's October 2009 arrest, according to trial documents.

Rebels push west before Libya crisis talks (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:53 AM PDT Reuters - Rebels advanced towards the birthplace of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Monday, firing mortars and heavy machineguns in sporadic clashes with loyalist forces.

Highly radioactive water leaks from Japanese nuclear plant (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:08 AM PDT Reuters - Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan's crippled nuclear complex, the plant's operator said on Monday, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

Europe, U.S. converging on Internet privacy (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 09:39 AM PDT Reuters - Few topics are more sensitive for Web users, or more likely to raise concerns in the corridors of Facebook or Google, than how to regulate privacy.

Afridi accuses Indian media of negative campaign (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 07:23 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi accused the Indian media on Monday of conducting a negative campaign against his team before Wednesday's eagerly anticpated World Cup semi-final in Mohali.

Kashmir army officers expect World Cup to improve ties (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:42 AM PDT Reuters - Cricket might succeed where diplomacy failed and mend India's ties with Pakistan, according to some of the Indian army officers posted on the disputed Kashmir border area.

Reuters journalists freed in Syria (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 08:19 AM PDT Reuters - Two Reuters journalists were released by Syrian authorities on Monday, two days after they were detained in Damascus.

India batsmen face off with Pakistan bowlers (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:06 AM PDT Reuters - India will bank on the stroke-makers while Pakistan will pin hopes on their bowlers in their World Cup semi-final on Wednesday which has gripped the sub-continent's imagination.

Army says Mubarak, family forced to stay in Egypt (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 05:44 AM PDT Reuters - Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family are not allowed to leave the country, the military council to which he handed power on Feb. 11 said on Monday.

Gul says scandal has made team stronger (Reuters) Posted: 28 Mar 2011 04:59 AM PDT Reuters - Team unity has helped Pakistan recover from last year's spot-fixing scandal and qualify for the World Cup semi-finals, Pakistan pace bowler Umar Gul said on Moday.

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