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Supermarkets must start supporting high quality British produce, farming leaders said on Wednesday amid the horsemeat scandal.

Tesco will bring meat production closer to home as part of measures in response to the horsemeat scandal, its chief executive said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Mumbai on a three-day trade-focused visit clouded by a corruption scandal over British-made helicopters sold to New Delhi.

London shares closed higher on Monday, boosted by demand for mining stocks amid signs of recovery in the global economy, dealers said.

Supermarkets were investigating their supply chains on Wednesday after traces of horsemeat were found in burgers at major chains including Tesco and Iceland.

Traces of horse meat have been found in burgers on sale in Britain and Ireland at supermarkets Tesco and Iceland.

Tesco admitted that horse DNA had been found in burgers sold in its supermarkets, and also by high-street rival Iceland.

London shares closed at an 18 month high on Friday following the release of US jobs data that investors hoped might keep the US Federal Reserve in support mode.

European stock markets rose on Wednesday, unruffled by grim news on the eurozone and British economies.

India's government, which lost its majority in September, faced a test of its ability to marshal support in parliament on Wednesday with a vote on a contentious recent reform of the retail sector.

India's government faced a test of its ability to survive as a minority administration Tuesday as opposition lawmakers slammed its decision to allow in foreign supermarket giants such as Walmart.

India's struggling government endured a stormy parliamentary debate on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers demanded it reverse a decision to allow in foreign supermarket giants such as Walmart.

The Indian government Tuesday braced itself for a test of strength as parliament debated reforms ahead of a vote on allowing in foreign supermarkets, a policy that has revitalised opposition parties.

London shares closed little changed on Monday as worries about fresh eurozone debt talks offset positive Chinese and eurozone manufacturing data, dealers said.

India's government has conceded to opposition pressure to allow lawmakers a vote on allowing foreign supermarkets in the country, in a bid to end a parliamentary deadlock that has stalled key reforms.

Garment workers in Bangladesh staged mass protests on Monday to demand the end of "deathtrap" labour conditions after the country's worst-ever textile factory fire in which 110 employees died.

Garment workers staged mass protests Monday to demand the end to "deathtrap" labour conditions after Bangladesh's worst-ever textile factory fire, as a new blaze sparked fresh panic and terror.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the economic "gloom and doom" clouding the country in recent years has been dispelled and that he is determined to push ahead with further reforms.

India will abide by a controversial decision to open retail and other sectors to wider foreign investment, the country's trade minister promised delegates at an international financial conference Thursday.

The ruling Congress party has rolled out its big guns to defend the move to let the likes of Walmart set up shop in India, but they are confronting an alliance stretching across the political spectrum.