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• Songs, prayers as Anna Hazare due to leave jail (Reuters)
• ANALYSIS - Protests are baptism of fire for Rahul Gandhi (Reuters)
• Nadal scrapes into Cincinnati quarters (Reuters)
• Rain interrupts England charge (Reuters)
• ICICI Bank launches new fixed rate home loan scheme (Reuters)
• Ecclestone goes into bat for F1 success in India (Reuters)
• Wordplay: from growleries to woots and beyond (Reuters)
• Food inflation at 9.03 pct y/y as on Aug 6 - govt (Reuters)
• Sensex near 15-month closing low, below 16,500 (Reuters)
• India gold hits peak; deters physical buying (Reuters)
• Monsoon rains above normal for second straight week (Reuters)
• England win toss and elect to bat v India (Reuters)
• New evidence points to cover-up at Murdoch tabloid (Reuters)

Songs, prayers as Anna Hazare due to leave jail (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 10:12 PM PDT Reuters - Self-styled Gandhian campaigner, Anna Hazare, who has become a symbol of popular outrage over endemic corruption in India was due to leave Tihar jail on Friday to carry on his fast after a beleaguered government caved in to huge protests across the country.

ANALYSIS - Protests are baptism of fire for Rahul Gandhi (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:49 AM PDT Reuters - Huge anti-corruption protests and a fumbling government response have catapulted India's family scion and prime minister-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi into a baptism of fire and exposed a leadership vacuum in the world's biggest democracy.

Nadal scrapes into Cincinnati quarters (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:03 PM PDT Reuters - World number two Rafa Nadal scraped into the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Open after beating fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco 7-6 6-7 7-6 in a fierce battle on Thursday but his rivals all had comfortable paths into the last eight.

Rain interrupts England charge (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - Rain frustrated England's bid for a series whitewash over India on Thursday when play was washed out after lunch on the opening day of the fourth test at the Oval.

ICICI Bank launches new fixed rate home loan scheme (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 06:02 AM PDT Reuters - India's No. 2 lender ICICI Bank on Thursday launched a fixed-interest-rate home loan scheme, where customer will get home loans at a fixed interest rate for one or two year years, post which the loan will move to floating interest rate.

Ecclestone goes into bat for F1 success in India (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:05 AM PDT Reuters - Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has hailed the circuit for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in October as "one of the nicest" on the calendar and predicted the series to take a serious hold in the world's second-most populous country.

Wordplay: from growleries to woots and beyond (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:48 AM PDT Reuters - Are you familiar with the brabble of cockyolly birds in the growlery?

Food inflation at 9.03 pct y/y as on Aug 6 - govt (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 12:34 AM PDT Reuters - India's food price index rose 9.03 percent and the fuel price index climbed 13.13 percent in the year to Aug. 6, government data on Thursday showed.

Sensex near 15-month closing low, below 16,500 (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:33 AM PDT Reuters - The BSE Sensex fell 2.2 percent on Thursday, their lowest close in nearly 15 months, mirroring weak Asian and European peers as glum global growth outlook prompted investors to cut exposure to riskier assets.

India gold hits peak; deters physical buying (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:49 AM PDT Reuters - Gold futures extended gains to hit a new peak on Thursday following a rally in overseas markets, and a weaker rupee, which made the yellow metal expensive, deterring physical buying ahead of a slew of festivals and weddings, dealers said.

Monsoon rains above normal for second straight week (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:42 AM PDT Reuters - Monsoon rains were 26 percent above normal in the week to Aug. 17, strengthening from a 14 percent above normal reading in the previous week, the weather office said on Thursday.

England win toss and elect to bat v India (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 03:53 AM PDT Reuters - England captain Andrew Strauss won the toss and elected to bat in the fourth and final test against India at the Oval on Thursday.

New evidence points to cover-up at Murdoch tabloid (Reuters) Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:25 PM PDT Reuters - New evidence of hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World points to a four-year cover-up by the company, and intensifies focus on Prime Minister David Cameron's judgement in hiring an ex-editor who may now face criminal prosecution.

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