Scandal-plagued Indian corporation Satyam Computer Services has offered itself for sale, a company board member said Wednesday. We are applying for regulatory approvals, board member Deepak Parekh, who is also chairman of the HDFC Bank, told The Hindu. The company would invite expressions of interest in the next few days.

Text of report headlined "India for regional cooperation in fighting poverty, diseases" by Indian newspaper The Hindu website on 9 September, subheading as carried [by Aarti Dhar] New Delhi: India on Monday [8 September] sought regional cooperation in overcoming the challenges posed by poverty and diseases, which are likely to aggravate owing to climate change.

Text of unattributed report headlined "Another media blitz planned on nuclear energy" published by Indian newspaper The Hindu website on 16 July New Delhi: Stating that the India-US nuclear deal will end India's technological isolation suffered since the Pokharan tests, Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora said on Tuesday [15 July] that the deal assured the country of supplies needed to power the future.

Text of unattributed report headlined "ISRO, French space agency ink pact" published by Indian newspaper The Hindu website on 8 July Bangalore: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the French Space Agency Centre, National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), have recently signed an agreement on the policy for distribution of data received from Megha Tropiques, an Indo-French collaborative satellite for tropical weather monitoring scheduled for launch during 2009.

Text of report by Sujay Mehdudia headlined "Deora urges OPEC chief to hike oil output" published by Indian newspaper The Hindu website on 2 July New Delhi: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister, Murli Deora on Tuesday [1 July] met the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries [OPEC] president and Algerian Energy and Mines Minister, Chakib Khali and urged him to increase crude oil production to cool down the sharp rise in its prices in the international markets.