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• Crisis-hit government defers parliament reopening (Reuters)
• India on top after West Indies batting fails (Reuters)
• NY maid claims Indian consul exploited her - filing (Reuters)
• 2011 monsoon rains seen just below normal (Reuters)
• Pakistan arrests brigadier over Islamist ties (Reuters)
• UN assembly approves 2nd term for Ban (Reuters)
• Obama's Afghan plan to start with 5,000-troop cut (Reuters)
• Orissa halts land takeover for $12 bln POSCO plant (Reuters)
• Nokia unveils new N9 smartphone; analysts not impressed (Reuters)
• Sri Lanka officials head to India for T20 league talks (Reuters)
• Bangalore police orders Google to suspend Street View service (Reuters)

Crisis-hit government defers parliament reopening (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 05:03 AM PDT Reuters - The parliament will reopen two weeks later than usual, giving the embattled government more time to reach an agreement with civil society over drafting a tough anti-graft "Jan Lokpal" bill and head off any more national protests.

India on top after West Indies batting fails (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:59 PM PDT Reuters - India dominated the second day of the first test against West Indies on Tuesday to seize the momentum in the series opener at Sabina Park.

NY maid claims Indian consul exploited her - filing (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 01:14 PM PDT Reuters - India's consul general in New York and his family treated a former maid like a slave, paying her $300 a month, confiscating her passport and sexually harassing her, a lawsuit against the family said.

2011 monsoon rains seen just below normal (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 07:18 AM PDT Reuters - India's vital monsoon this year is expected to be just below normal, the weather office said in a revised forecast on Tuesday, but the rains could pick up after July 15, during the key planting month for rice, sugar cane and corn.

Pakistan arrests brigadier over Islamist ties (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 08:45 AM PDT Reuters - Pakistan has detained a brigadier assigned to army headquarters over alleged links to a banned Islamist group, the army said on Tuesday, the highest-ranking serving officer arrested in a decade.

UN assembly approves 2nd term for Ban (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:09 PM PDT Reuters - The 192-nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday unanimously approved a second five-year term for U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, who analysts and diplomats see as a solid ally of Washington.

Obama's Afghan plan to start with 5,000-troop cut (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 03:55 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama is expected to unveil plans to withdraw about 5,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July and up to 5,000 more by year-end in a major speech on Wednesday to Americans increasingly weary of the costly, decade-old war.

Orissa halts land takeover for $12 bln POSCO plant (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 02:12 AM PDT Reuters - Local protests have forced Orissa to halt acquiring land for a proposed $12 billion steel plant to be built by South Korea's POSCO, further delaying the biggest foreign direct investment in Asia's third largest economy.

Nokia unveils new N9 smartphone; analysts not impressed (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 04:37 AM PDT Reuters - Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity.

Sri Lanka officials head to India for T20 league talks (Reuters) Posted: 21 Jun 2011 02:23 AM PDT Reuters - Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officials are hopeful that hastily arranged talks with their Indian counterparts will succeed in releasing players from that country to participate in the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) Twenty20 tournament.

Bangalore police orders Google to suspend Street View service (Reuters) Posted: 20 Jun 2011 11:40 PM PDT Reuters - Google Inc has been ordered by city police to suspend its "Street View" service in Bangalore, the company said on Tuesday, in the latest setback to its global mapping project that has been hit by privacy fears.

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