National News: General

Rebels killed five paramilitary men, including two officers, in an ambush in Manipur on Monday, security officials said.

Tata Consultancy Services, India's leading outsourcing firm, does not expect volume growth in the December quarter to match the September quarter as companies are still deciding on IT budgets, a senior official said.

India, whose protected financial sector helped insulate it from the worst of the global economic meltdown, should not be complacent in its push for financial sector reforms, a top Bank of America-Merrill Lynch executive said on Monday.

Injured Sri Lanka paceman bowler Dhammika Prasad will miss the second test against India starting on Tuesday but opener Tillekaratne Dilshan will play despite suffering a broken nose.

Reliance Capital has been approached by three foreign insurance companies looking to take a stake in its life insurance business, its chief executive said on Monday.

Most people in France do not think their soccer team deserves to be in the 2010 World Cup and did not approve of Thierry Henry's handball that helped secure a finals place, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday.

Sugar mills in India's top producing state have accelerated cane crushing after last week's unseasonal rains and so far the state has produced higher quantity of the sweetener than last year, a government official said.

Hedge fund Galleon, which is winding down its funds after its founder was accused of heading an insider trading ring, has sold its holding in India's Edelweiss Capital, stock exchange data showed.

The arrest of two men in Chicago on terrorism charges linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba has revived fears about the Pakistani militant group's global reach and its ability to plot attacks in India and around the world.

India is not considering imposing a tax to curb an influx in overseas funds, and indeed wants an increase in inflows, the deputy chairman of the government's planning commission said on Friday.

Bharti Airtel launched yet another new billing plan on Friday, slashing mobile roaming rates by nearly 60 percent and signalling a tariff war in the world's fastest-growing wireless market was far from over.

Opener Gautam Gambhir stroked a third century in as many matches and Sachin Tendulkar hit a fifty to put India in position to save the first test against Sri Lanka on Friday.

The launch of 3G in China and India by the likes of China Mobile and Bharti Airtel could boost wireless broadband worldwide, sparking a boom in new offerings as millions of users sign up for services.

Tens of thousands of India's sugarcane growers swarmed through the country's capital on Thursday demanding higher prices for cane, forcing the prime minister to consider changes in fixing cane rates.

Bharti Airtel, India's top mobile operator, said on Friday it had launched a new bill plan that would reduce mobile roaming rates by nearly 60 percent.

International news agency Reuters has suspended coverage of Cricket Australia matches and events for a second season because of a long-running dispute over media rights and freedom of the press.

New Google Inc software will start up a computer as fast as a television, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web.

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray vented his ire over Sachin's comments in his party mouthpiece Saamna. He warned Sachin to focus on his game and not speak on political issues. He was quoted as saying 'Don't lose in politics what you have earned in cricket'.

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The Unique Identity Authority (UIA) will not plug the chronically leaky delivery of public services, which means, it may not improve the targeting of these services. To that extent, it may not turn out to be the tool for poverty alleviation that some expect it to be.