Reuters - Indian energy major Reliance Industries is seeking a joint venture with Atlas Energy to develop the U.S. firm's Marcellus Shale gas operations, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Reuters - The Indian unit of the Renault-Nissan alliance will start selling Micra hatchbacks from July and aims sales of 80,000 units in the financial year ending March 2011, an official said on Tuesday.

Reuters - A pedestrian was killed and five others wounded on Tuesday in a second militant attack on security forces in the heart of Srinagar in three days, raising fears of more such strikes, police said.

Reuters - Former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka appeared before a military court on Tuesday on charges of engaging in politics while in uniform, officials said, as hundreds of his supporters protested near the capital.

Reuters - India could see double-digit inflation in March, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told parliament on Tuesday.

Reuters - Two men fired at security guards outside a high security space centre in Karnataka on Tuesday but it was too early to link it to a militant attack, the government said.

Reuters - A British boy kidnapped nearly two weeks ago while on vacation in Pakistan was freed unharmed by his abductors on Tuesday, police and relatives said, ending a high-profile ordeal.

Reuters - Google should obey Chinese government rules even if it decides to retreat from the country over hacking and censorship complaints, a Chinese government spokesman said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The world's shortest man, China's He Pingping who was just over 74 cm tall (29 inches), has died at the age of 21 from apparent heart complications, the Guinness World Records book said.

Reuters - A bombing that killed 16 people in Pune last month was carried out by Indian Mujahideen, the home-grown Islamist group with links to militants in Pakistan, Home Secretary Gopal Pillai said on Monday.

Reuters - India's Bharti Airtel, in talks to buy the African mobile operations of Kuwait's Zain for $9 billion, has issued a term sheet to banks to raise up to $8.5 billion in offshore loans to fund the deal, banking sources said.

Reuters - Many workers around the world have given up hopes of advancing in their jobs, but the bad economy is keeping them from finding new ones.

Reuters - Aircel will sell the two latest handset models of British phone maker INQ Mobile in India as they try to tap surging demand for mobile social networking in the fastest growing major mobile market.

Reuters - Energy major Reliance Industries is out of the race for Value Creation after the Canadian firm sold a majority stake in an oil sands property to BP Plc, a source with direct knowledge told Reuters.

Reuters - Kuwaiti telecom Zain and Bharti Airtel have faced no obstacles in due diligence and expect the $9 billion deal to close on time, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Plans by Vedanta Resources to begin bauxite mining in Orissa suffered a setback after a government team said the company was violating environmental guidelines, officials said on Monday.

Reuters - There was no love lost for "Kambakkht Ishq" at Bollywood's Golden Kela awards with the Sajid Nadiadwala film being crowned the worst film of 2009.