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• Reliance posts record profit, lags estimates (Reuters)
• Delhi High Court defers bail hearing in 2G trial (Reuters)
• Rajaratnam defense in last shot to urge acquittal (Reuters)
• Earth Day organizers call for 'a billion acts of green' (Reuters)
• China, India need decade to stamp out bird flu - FAO (Reuters)
• New skirt rule irks Chinese shuttlers (Reuters)
• India targets lower deficit, higher farm output to tame prices (Reuters)
• Regulator calls meet as Reliance Industries lags gas target (Reuters)
• Back to school for Pakistan players, coaches in corruption fight (Reuters)
• TCS Q4 net profit up 23pct, beats f'cast (Reuters)
• Ivory Coast polio outbreak could spread abroad - WHO (Reuters)
• Japan makes no-go nuclear zone, PM faces more criticism (Reuters)
• Food inflation snaps 3-week easing trend (Reuters)
• Mortars pound Misrata; West talks of tougher action (Reuters)
• INTERVIEW - Only thinkers survive T20, says Parnell (Reuters)
• Heart risk factors high in young Indian adults - study (Reuters)
• U.N. peacekeepers learn to battle sexual violence in war (Reuters)
• Ronaldo seals dramatic Spanish Cup win for Real (Reuters)
• Prenatal pesticide exposure linked with lower IQ (Reuters)

Reliance posts record profit, lags estimates (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 08:46 AM PDT Reuters - India's largest listed firm Reliance Industries posted a record quarterly profit on Thursday, but still missed forecasts due to flat production from gas blocks and lower-than-expected refining margins.

Delhi High Court defers bail hearing in 2G trial (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 05:21 AM PDT Reuters - The Delhi High Court on Thursday deferred a hearing on bail pleas of five business executives charged in one of India's biggest corruption scandals that has undermined the government and business sentiment in Asia's third-largest economy.

Rajaratnam defense in last shot to urge acquittal (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:40 PM PDT Reuters - Raj Rajaratnam's lawyer took a last shot at trial of keeping his client out of prison, blasting the credibility of key witnesses and telling jurors the government failed to prove the hedge fund manager broke insider trading laws.

Earth Day organizers call for 'a billion acts of green' (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:33 PM PDT Reuters - If the environmental movement has a high holiday, Earth Day is it.

China, India need decade to stamp out bird flu - FAO (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:42 AM PDT Reuters - China, India and four other countries where bird flu remains endemic will take ten years or longer to stamp out the disease, because they offer little anti-virus protection to poultry, the United Nations said.

New skirt rule irks Chinese shuttlers (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 12:33 AM PDT Reuters - Badminton's new dress code has irked some of the Chinese female shuttlers, who insist wearing a skirt hampers their on-court movement.

India targets lower deficit, higher farm output to tame prices (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 11:55 AM PDT Reuters - Stubbornly high inflation could be tamed through reducing its fiscal deficit and boosting farm output, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said, as mounting price pressures threaten to slow the economy.

Regulator calls meet as Reliance Industries lags gas target (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:27 AM PDT Reuters - Reliance Industries is pumping 28 percent less gas than it should from its key block, the upstream regulator said, and will meet the company, which has just partnered with BP on field development, over the shortfall next month.

Back to school for Pakistan players, coaches in corruption fight (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:56 AM PDT Reuters - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has launched a program to educate cricketers and officials on how to avoid corruption and be on their best behaviour in the sport.

TCS Q4 net profit up 23pct, beats f'cast (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:43 AM PDT Reuters - Tata Consultancy Services, India's largest software services exporter, posted a 23-percent rise in quarterly net profit on Thursday, beating analysts' forecasts on rising demand for outsourcing services from western clients.

Ivory Coast polio outbreak could spread abroad - WHO (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 09:42 AM PDT Reuters - Polio has broken out in Ivory Coast, with three children confirmed as having the crippling disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.

Japan makes no-go nuclear zone, PM faces more criticism (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:17 AM PDT Reuters - Japan said on Thursday it would ban anyone entering the 20-km (12-mile) evacuation zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant north of Tokyo, weeks after the tsunami-wrecked facility began leaking radiation.

Food inflation snaps 3-week easing trend (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:38 AM PDT Reuters - The annual food inflation snapped a three-week easing trend on April 9, while fuel inflation also quickened, raising the odds for an aggressive rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) next month.

Mortars pound Misrata; West talks of tougher action (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 02:43 AM PDT Reuters - Libyan government troops pounded the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata overnight, undeterred by Western threats to step up military action against Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

INTERVIEW - Only thinkers survive T20, says Parnell (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 01:00 AM PDT Reuters - Twenty20 cricket is a constant battle of wits and bowlers who cannot think on their feet will end up cannon-fodder, says South African pace bowler Wayne Parnell.

Heart risk factors high in young Indian adults - study (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2011 07:21 PM PDT Reuters - More and more, young urban adults in India are developing obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes, suggesting that rising rates of cardiovascular disease could appear in the future, an Indian study said.

U.N. peacekeepers learn to battle sexual violence in war (Reuters) Posted: 21 Apr 2011 03:48 AM PDT Reuters - NEW DELHI (AlertNet) Imagine you're a U.N. peacekeeper driving along a dirt road surrounded by dense forests on each side in the conflict-hit region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Ronaldo seals dramatic Spanish Cup win for Real (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2011 05:52 PM PDT Reuters - Real Madrid claimed their first trophy under Jose Mourinho in dramatic fashion when Cristiano Ronaldo's extra-time winner secured a 1-0 King's Cup final victory over arch-rivals Barcelona on Wednesday.

Prenatal pesticide exposure linked with lower IQ (Reuters) Posted: 20 Apr 2011 10:00 PM PDT Reuters - Babies exposed to pesticides before birth may have significantly lower intelligence scores by age 7 than children who were not exposed, three separate studies published on Thursday said.

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