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U.N. launches review of criticized climate panel
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:35:53 PST
Reuters - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.



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Google stands behind plan to stop China censorship
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:03:16 PST
Reuters - Google has not changed its decision to stop censoring its Chinese search site even if it means leaving that market, a senior executive told a U.S. Congressional panel on Wednesday.



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Congress faces turmoil over women's bill
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:12:56 PST
Reuters - India's ruling Congress party officials met on Wednesday to resolve a political standoff over a contentious women's quota bill after two of its allies quit and left the government less elbow room to pass economic legislation.



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INTERVIEW - Russia sees over $10 bln in deals with India
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:43:59 PST
Reuters - Russia plans to sign over $10 billion worth of deals with India during the visit of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin later this week, Putin's deputy, Sergei Sobyanin, told Reuters in an interview.



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Q+A - Top issues in India, Russia relations
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:51:52 PST
Reuters - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi on Thursday to reaffirm ties with Moscow's Cold War ally, lining up billions of dollars in mainly defence deals to be signed during the two-day trip.



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Pakistan backtracks on bans for Yousuf, Younus
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:55:08 PST
Reuters - Former captains Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf had their international futures cast aside and then restored just as quickly after the Pakistan Cricket Board backtracked on its decision to ban the two players.



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Q+A - Women's quota bill spells trouble for Congress
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:12:26 PST
Reuters - Congress party officials met on Wednesday to douse a political stand-off over a contentious parliament bill after two of its allies quit and left the government less elbow room to pass economic legislation.



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Michael Schumacher raring to go
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:28:47 PST
Reuters - Michael Schumacher is raring to go racing again, and the rest of Formula One is just as keen to have him back.



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Dalai Lama risks Chinese ire to back Uighurs
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:20:45 PST
Reuters - The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, voiced his support on Wednesday for an ethnic minority in China's troubled Xinjiang province, risking further worsening his fraught relations with Beijing.



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IBM, universities target easy-to-use cellphones
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:42:36 PST
Reuters - IBM has started a two-year research programme that aims to make cellphones easier to use for groups including the elderly and the illiterate.



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UK academy aids study to regain climate data trust
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:21:26 PST
Reuters - Britain's science academy said on Wednesday it would take part in a review of U.N. climate science intended to restore trust after a 2007 report was found to have exaggerated evidence for global warming.



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Google CEO sees China talks outcome soon
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:27:06 PST
Reuters - Google expects an outcome soon from its talks with China over a censorship and hacking dispute, and its negotiations are independent of the U.S. government, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Wednesday



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Power cuts threaten port, plants in Orissa
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:12:26 PST Reuters - A severe power shortage has forced India's largest iron-ore producing region to cut supply to industries once a week, which will cut output and affect cargo loading at Paradip, a key port for oil imports.



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Gunmen kill 6 in Western aid agency raid in Pakistan
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:47 PST
Reuters - Suspected Islamist militants stormed an office of a U.S.-based, Christian aid agency in Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani aid workers after singling them out and then blowing up the building.



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Govt has no plans now to sell stake in ONGC, IOC - Oil secy
(Reuters) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:48:32 PST
Reuters - The government has no immediate plans to sell stake in state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil Secretary S. Sundareshan told reporters on Wednesday.



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NMDC share sale 17 pct covered on first day
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:56:13 PST
Reuters - A keenly-watched share sale worth up to $2.6 billion in India's top iron ore miner NMDC got off to a slow start on its first day, with bids for only 17 percent of the shares on offer.



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Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius
(Reuters) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:51 PST
Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.



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Infosys says outsourcing deal pipeline improving
(Reuters) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:00:24 PST
Reuters - Infosys Technologies, India's No. 2 software services exporter, is seeing a rise in outsourcing deal flows due to a recovery in the global economy, a top official said on Wednesday.



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Double digit inflation unlikely by end-March - official
(Reuters) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:31:02 PST
Reuters - India's wholesale price inflation is unlikely to touch double digits by end-March, M. Govinda Rao, a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, told reporters on Wednesday.



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INTERVIEW - Tata Steel sees iron ore prices rising
(Reuters) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:53:53 PST
Reuters - Iron ore prices are headed as much as 35 percent higher this year and will likely pressure the profit margins of steel companies, Tata Steel Ltd Vice Chairman B. Muthuraman said on Tuesday.



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