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| Domestic fuel consumption jumps 12% | 21-NOV-09 |
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| India’s fuel consumption rose 12 per cent in October, the highest growth rate this financial year, on the back of a surge in demand for auto fuels — petrol and diesel. |
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| V V: The Great Depression, 1929, and us | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Because of the close parallels between the current global financial crisis and the Great Depression, 1929, it is no wonder that there is no end to books on what we need to do now — or what it really meant then and who was responsible for the meltdown. Liaquat Ahamed, a professional investment manager for 25 years who has also worked for the World Bank and now an adviser to several hedge fund groups in the US, has come with his own diagnosis of what happened to the West after World War I, of bubbles followed by busts and a cascading series of events that led to the Great Depression, in Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World (William Heinemann, Special Indian price, Rs 1,185). |
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| Bug bare! | 21-NOV-09 |
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| We encountered several bugs at Europe’s fanciest Rallye Historique and Concours d’Elegance. |
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| Thinking out of the cage | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Admittedly, Nehru was there at the start of things, the end of an age, the awakening of a nation, that tryst with destiny. So he and others of his generation were better placed than we are to think laterally, to explore all of history for models towards which to incline the path of our future. He also spent years in prison, an enforced separation from the bustle and fire of the freedom movement which enabled him to look beyond the constrained present to the past and future, all in the service of his country. In other words, he used his time in prison to think big for India. |
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| Land acquisition in Gujarat less bloody | 21-NOV-09 |
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| Land disputes and displacement issues in Gujarat have been far less ‘bloody’ compared to states like Orissa and West Bengal. The credit for this, to an extent, goes to the long tradition of giving land at only market prices to industrial houses, with a similar compensation to land-losers, besides lesser interferences of the government in such matters. |
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| The many-layered sandwich | 21-NOV-09 |
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| To make a bunny chow, you need a loaf of bread and a scoopful of vegetable, meat or bean curry,” Minal Hajratwala writes in Leaving India: My Family’s Journey From Five Villages to Five Continents. “Cut off the end of the bread and hollow it out, reserving the soft innards. Fill it with curry. Serve. |
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| Govt seizes 4.3 lakh quintals of sugar from hoarders | 20-NOV-09 |
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| The government today said it has seized 4.30 lakh quintals of sugar from hoarders in four states this year. In an attempt to curb the rise in prices, the government had imposed in March stock holding and turnover limits on all sugar dealers. It had also restrained bulk consumers from holding sugar stock beyond 15 days of their requirement. |
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| Dell Q3 net dips 54% despite better India, China sales | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Dell Inc, world's third largest personal computer maker, has reported a massive 54 per cent decline in its profit during the third quarter ended October 30, despite seeing an upswing in sales from emerging markers like India and China. |
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| Shree Renuka Sugars Q4 net surges threefold | 20-NOV-09 |
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| India's biggest sugar refiner, Shree Renuka Sugars has reported a standalone net profit of Rs 48.2 crore, an increase of 298 per cent during the quarter ended September 30, 2009 as against the net profit of Rs 12.1 crore posted in the same period a year ago. |
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