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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has halved the number of women who die during childbirth, but experts warned on Wednesday a lack of facilities is likely to stop the country from meeting global goals for improving maternal health before 2015.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Chief Prosecutor said on Wednesday she was reopening a preliminary investigation into rape charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
NEW DELHI (Reuters Life!) - For many people, the city of Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, conjures up an image of a metropolis that plays host to the headquarters of some of the world's biggest software companies.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The M Hotel in Singapore's business district once struggled to fill its rooms on weekends as visiting executives tended to leave by Friday. Now it enjoys 90 percent-plus occupancy even on Saturdays and Sundays.
BANGALORE/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's manufacturing growth eased in August as the pace of new orders cooled following a slowdown in exports, underlining expectations that economic expansion has peaked this year.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Mohammad Asif may be dropped from an Indian film in which he was supposed to play a cricket coach after it emerged he was one of the three Pakistani players embroiled in a spot-fixing scandal.
KARACHI (Reuters) - The corruption scandal that exploded this week is the latest damaging blow to Pakistan cricket and former players fear it could be the one that finally crushes the credibility of the sport in the South Asian nation.
NEW DELHI (AlertNet) - India said on Tuesday that arch-rival Pakistan had accepted its offer of flood aid, but analysts say this piecemeal attempt at disaster diplomacy will not help improve relations between the two sides.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rafa Nadal made a smooth start to his bid to capture the one grand slam that has eluded him when he wore down Russia's Teymuraz Gabashvili 7-6 7-6 6-3 in the first round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
BANGALORE (Reuters) - India's manufacturing sector expanded for the 17th successive month in August, although at a slightly slower pace than in July, supported by strength in new orders.
BOSTON (Reuters) - As U.S. companies shed millions of workers during the recession, the CEOs who laid off the most people brought home pay that was significantly higher than that of their peers, a study released on Thursday found.
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Barack Obama declared an end to the seven-year U.S. combat mission in Iraq on Tuesday and told war-weary Americans his central responsibility now is to restore the sagging U.S. economy.
KOT ADDU, Pakistan (Reuters) - For some of the children caught up in Pakistan's floods, the most frightening moment of their lives was the day before the water hit.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian Premier League (IPL) cricketers had been approached about spot-fixing over the last two-and-a-half years, former India player Atul Wassan said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted a government petition seeking harsher sentences for seven people convicted for their role in the world's worst industrial disaster that killed thousands of people in 1984.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India expressed concerns on Tuesday about China's influence in the Indian Ocean region, the latest sign of tension between the Asian giants who are competing for resources and geopolitical power in the region.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly three years in the April-June quarter on strong manufacturing growth and better farm output that may keep the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on its gradual monetary tightening path.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's top crime investigative agency will send a team to Britain this week to probe corruption allegations against some of the country's cricket players, a senior official said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Government spending is expected to pick up after the June-September monsoon rains, the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economy grew at its fastest clip in nearly three years in the quarter through June on strong manufacturing growth and farm output that may keep the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on its policy tightening path.
