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Abbottabad Diary (Cached) 2.8.2010 Outlook Magazine
Bidding me farewell, my wife is concerned that “They” might start asking why I am visiting Pakistan so often. It is my fourth trip in four months...
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Hunger beyond calculus 31.7.2010 Hindu: Home
Statistics can be meaningless as it can be manipulated to support any position but we cannot always ignore it because when it comes to poverty, it is often used to deny poor people their rights and needs…
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A thousand words & more on wildlife 31.7.2010 Mid-Day: Mumbai
Wildscapes, a coffee-table book, a project by MP Vijay Darda launched at Raj Bhavan The call of the wild echoed through the magnificent expanse of Raj Bhavan at Walkeshwar on Thursday evening at the launch of a coffee-table book on wildlife called Wildscapes. The book, a project by Vijay Darda MP, Rajya Sabha and Chairman, Lokmat Media Group, with pictures by Baiju Patil, could not have been launched at a better setting. Emerald It was a wind-swept evening, with the rain gods showering their benevolence on the guests. The green lawn of the Raj Bhavan gleamed like an emerald. A chopper stood on the helipad, a winged steel hawk poised for flight. The sea coiled itself into angry waves and lashed the outside of the Raj Bhavan. ...
China No. 2 eco, topples Japan (Cached) 31.7.2010 TOI: All Headlines
China No. 2 eco, topples Japan
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Retooling The Microfinance Model in Asia 31.7.2010 Forbes India

  Microfinance is flourishing in Asia especially with around 49 million borrowers Read more

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Dreams of beauty in the shanties (Cached) 31.7.2010 DNA: Opinion
Girls from slums are as fired about looking good as their counterparts in middle-class neighbourhoods or the urban elite.
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China now No. 2 economy (Cached) 31.7.2010 Telegraph: Business
Beijing, July 30 (Reuters): China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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China overtakes Japan as No. 2 economy: Chinese forex chief (Cached) 31.7.2010 Indian Express: Business
China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty....
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Demands, allegations, frayed tempers mark civic House Meet (Cached) 31.7.2010 Indian Express: Chandigarh
Demand of more revenue generating departments under the 74th amendment; ongoing tussle between Municipal Corporation officials and councillors...
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China said to overtake Japan as number 2 economy 31.7.2010 Business Standard: Economy & Policy
China has overtaken Japan to become the worlds second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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Extend Rajiv Awas Yojana from 5 yrs to 20 yrs: LS informed! (Cached) 31.7.2010 Zee News : India National
A high-powered panel formed to look into the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for removal of slums and rehabilitation of slum-dwellers has recommended that the scheme be extended from five to 20 years and be included in the JNNURM plan.
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Chinese dragon leaps over Japans setting sun (Cached) 31.7.2010 Financial Express: Front Page
China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, the fruit of three decades of rapid growth that has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.
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Food security law could double subsidy bill (Cached) 31.7.2010 Financial Express: Front Page
The country's food subsidy bill could nearly double to Rs 1,07,381 crore if the government decides to supply 35 kg of foodgrain at cheaper rates to the poor under the proposed Food Security Act.
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Murder and more 31.7.2010 Business Standard: Life & Leisure
Ruth Rendell knows so many ways to tell a story you might count her as three or four writers. Her Inspector Wexford stories are probably her most popular works, especially after a long-running television series based on them. Her other mysteries are a bit more complicated, in that they usually have no fatherly detective to make it all better, and certainly no guarantee that a criminal will be identified or caught. You may get poetic justice, or you may not get even that.
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Naresh Gupta goes down memory lane 31.7.2010 Hindu: Madurai
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Naresh Gupta, in the last five-and-a-half years, has addressed a number of press conferences. But, the one on Friday was special as it was his last official press con...
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Non-Cong states implementing UPA schemes better 31.7.2010 Business Standard: Economy & Policy
Earlier this month, Congress president Sonia Gandhi spent hours hearing party people grumble on how opposition parties were allegedly hijacking the United Progressive Alliances (UPAs) flagship programmes and claiming these as their own. Yet, the latest figures from the Union rural development ministry suggest opposition-ruled states are actually implementing the UPAs rural schemes better and more efficiently, while Congress-ruled ones are lagging.
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How much more for national glory?: Displaced DU students (Cached) 31.7.2010 New Kerala: World News
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China overtakes Japan to become world’s second-largest economy (Cached) 30.7.2010 Hindustan Times: Business

China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy and depending on how fast its exchange rate rises, it is on course to overtake the United States and vault into the number-1 spot sometime around 2025.

Superlative growth

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Check population to change country, says Bopaiah 30.7.2010 Deccan Herald: District
Check population to change country, says Bopaiah
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APL families fuel horticulture crops 30.7.2010 Deccan Herald: District
APL families fuel horticulture crops
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