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• PM Singh says need to deal with high inflation (Reuters)
• Tendulkar and Muralitharan take centre stage (Reuters)
• Japan crisis drags, France wants global nuclear reform (Reuters)
• Jordanians call for release of Reuters journalist (Reuters)
• Atwal can draw on Tiger's advice for Augusta debut (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka's president flying to India to watch final (Reuters)
• Damaged PM regains the initiative, for now (Reuters)
• Dhoni's blunder helps India to overcome bowling woes (Reuters)
• Scandinavians best at English, India performs worse than expected (Reuters)
• Slower Indian population growth may benefit economy (Reuters)
• Pakistan hopeful of renewing bilateral ties with India (Reuters)
• Govt grants income tax exemption to ICC World Cup (Reuters)
• Vodafone to buy out Essar stake in India JV (Reuters)
• India furious over biography of "bisexual" Gandhi (Reuters)
• Census signals unabated killing of unborn girls (Reuters)
• U.S. support order, defection could buoy Libya rebels (Reuters)
• Ex-Berkshire exec Sokol: I did nothing wrong - CNBC (Reuters)
• Players and politicians hail Afridi's men (Reuters)
• Pakistan overcome crisis to show character (Reuters)
• India's food inflation at 9.50 pct y/y on March 19 - govt (Reuters)

PM Singh says need to deal with high inflation (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:02 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday his government will deal with the challenge of high inflation driven by rising oil, food and commodity prices because of political upheavals and natural disasters in some countries.

Tendulkar and Muralitharan take centre stage (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 11:24 AM PDT Reuters - Sachin Tendulkar stands at the heart of a real life drama on Saturday which would be rejected as impossibly contrived if suggested to any director in the flourishing film industry of his native Mumbai.

Japan crisis drags, France wants global nuclear reform (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:53 PM PDT Reuters - Japan's nuclear crisis stretched to three weeks on Friday with radiation widening from a crippled power plant and scant hope of a quick resolution.

Jordanians call for release of Reuters journalist (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:31 PM PDT Reuters - Prominent Jordanian journalists and rights activists staged a silent protest on Thursday over the detention in Syria of Reuters correspondent Suleiman al-Khalidi, who was arrested while covering Syrian protests.

Atwal can draw on Tiger's advice for Augusta debut (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 01:44 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. Masters debutants usually turn to their closest friends on the PGA Tour for advice about the daunting Augusta course and India's Arjun Atwal has the ultimate mentor in four-times Masters winner Tiger Woods.

Sri Lanka's president flying to India to watch final (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 08:41 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will fly to Mumbai to watch Kumar Sangakkara's men take on India in the World Cup final on Saturday.

Damaged PM regains the initiative, for now (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:41 AM PDT Reuters - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may have regained the political initiative after his successful "cricket diplomacy" with Pakistan overshadowed, for now, a string of corruption scandals that have paralysed his second-term government.

Dhoni's blunder helps India to overcome bowling woes (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:58 AM PDT Reuters - It took a selection blooper for India to make sure they had ticked all the boxes before they locked horns with Sri Lanka in Saturday's World Cup final in Mumbai.

Scandinavians best at English, India performs worse than expected (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - Speaking English is increasingly a basic requirement for participating in international business, but a new study shows large gaps in English skills around the world.

Slower Indian population growth may benefit economy (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 07:33 AM PDT Reuters - India's population grew at its slowest pace since independence in the decade to 2011, the government said on Thursday, a trend welcomed by some since it may lead to higher living standards and sounder public finances in a country with enough young people.

Pakistan hopeful of renewing bilateral ties with India (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:08 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan cricket chief Ijaz Butt was optimistic that bilateral cricket ties with India will soon resume after the World Cup.

Govt grants income tax exemption to ICC World Cup (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 09:09 AM PDT Reuters - India approved a proposal to exempt the Cricket World Cup from income tax on Thursday, granting the tournament an estimated 450 million rupee ($10.1 million) windfall.

Vodafone to buy out Essar stake in India JV (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:50 AM PDT Reuters - Vodafone will buy out partner Essar in a $5 billion deal that ratchets up its exposure to a mobile market that has proved challenging despite its rapid growth.

India furious over biography of "bisexual" Gandhi (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:58 AM PDT Reuters - India could bring in legislation to jail anyone who insults Mahatma Gandhi while state governments are moving to ban a biography that reviewers said showed the "Father of the Nation" was bisexual.

Census signals unabated killing of unborn girls (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 04:17 AM PDT Reuters - Fewer girls have been born in India over the last decade compared with boys, suggesting that female foeticide - the killing of unborn girls - continues unabated, early results of the 2011 national census revealed on Thursday.

U.S. support order, defection could buoy Libya rebels (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:39 AM PDT Reuters - Libyan rebels massed for a counter-attack against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the east on Thursday, both buoyed by and wary of news of covert U.S. support and his foreign minister's defection.

Ex-Berkshire exec Sokol: I did nothing wrong - CNBC (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 06:22 AM PDT Reuters - Former Berkshire Hathaway executive David Sokol insisted he did nothing wrong in buying stock in a company that he then suggested Berkshire acquire, and said he has in past invested in companies he then recommended to Warren Buffett.

Players and politicians hail Afridi's men (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 03:02 AM PDT Reuters - Shahid Afridi's men should be given a heroes' welcome when they touch down in Pakistan despite their loss to India in the World Cup semi-finals, urged a number of former players on Thursday.

Pakistan overcome crisis to show character (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 05:53 AM PDT Reuters - Shahid Afridi arrived for the World Cup with a "rag-tag bunch of players" and in the space of six short weeks turned them into a strong Pakistan outfit.

India's food inflation at 9.50 pct y/y on March 19 - govt (Reuters) Posted: 31 Mar 2011 12:21 AM PDT Reuters - India's food price index rose 9.50 percent and the fuel price index climbed 13.13 percent in the year to March 19, government data on Thursday showed.

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