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India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said on Wednesday it has arrested India's state-run LIC Housing Finance CEO, general manager of state-run Central Bank of India and a deputy manager of Punjab National Bank in connection with an alleged fake home loans scandal.

Government policies all over the world are distorting the market for agricultural products and discouraging their production at a time when there is a global shortage of them.

Nearly two-third of American drivers support a national ban on the use of mobile phones while driving, even if the driver is using a hands-free device, according to Quinnipiac University National Poll released on Thursday.

Oksana Grigorieva, Mel Gibson's ex-girlfriend who is lodged in a custody battle with him, has given an hour-long interview to Larry King, defying a court-ordered media ban.

Toyota Motor Corp, Japan's largest automaker, has lifted a ban prohibiting office staff from working overtime, a move intended to give experienced workers more time to coach younger personnel, the Nikkei business daily said.

Researchers at Glasgow University, Scotland have found that since the ban in the country of smoking in enclosed public places in 2006 cases of childhood asthma

Infosys has voiced concern over Ohio's move to ban IT outsourcing to offshore locations such as India.

A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs.

India has expunged the ban on export of coconut oil and allowed exporters to ship coconut oil in 5 kg packets from 13 ports in India.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion offered the Indian government a few solutions to access BlackBerry data, avoiding an immediate ban as the government studies those solutions, India's home ministry said on Monday.

Indian officials began a meeting on Monday to decide whether to ban some of Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, a day before the deadline runs out for the firm to give security agencies access to its secure data.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion offered the Indian government a few solutions to access BlackBerry data, avoiding an immediate ban as the government studies those solutions, India's home ministry said on Monday.

Indian officials began a meeting on Monday to decide whether to ban some of Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, a day before the deadline runs out for the firm to give security agencies access to its secure data.

Indian officials meet on Monday to decide whether to ban some of Research In Motion's BlackBerry services, a day before the deadline runs out for the firm to give security agencies access to its secure data.

India insisted on Friday it would block some BlackBerry services next week if the smartphone maker did not address security concerns, and government officials said they were hopeful for a solution soon.

Rejecting demand for a total ban on iron ore exports from some States, Indian government said states need to take stringent steps to prevent illegal mining. Replying to a debate on illegal mining in country's upper house of the parliament, Mines minister B K Handique said Merely because state governments are not able to prevent and stop illegal mining, we should not ban export of iron ore.

European and U.S. health authorities have banned a flu vaccine for children made by Australian biopharmaceutical CSL Biotherapies Australia.

Canberra stores will be banned from displaying cigarettes and other tobacco products by the end of the year. But shopping centres in the ACT can continue displaying illegal drug paraphernalia, such as bongs and ice pipes.

Russia plans to discuss after October 1 whether to extend a grain export ban into next year, First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov told Reuters, after a severe drought ruined vast tracts of the country's grain crop.

Kazakhstan expected to succumb to Russian pressure for barring wheat exports outside the Commonwealth of Independent states in order to establish monopoly on their grain supplies.

Saudi Arabia told the kingdom's telecom operators on Saturday to test a proposed fix to the perceived national security threat posed by Research In Motion's BlackBerry smartphones, and said it would not ban service if the test was successful.