India’s richest woman can’t afford a car

HISAR:  She is said to be India’s richest woman. But Congress nominee from Hisar assembly seat, Savitri Jindal, does not own a car. However, the Haryana minister for revenue has wealth worth $2.9 billion, according to the Forbes Magazine survey of richest women of the world.
In her statement given before the returning officer, while filing [...]

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2 Recent survey results on Poverty and FDI

India is home to one-third of the world’s undernourished children, despite impressive economic progress with real GDP per capita growing by 3.95 percent annually from 1980 to 2005. Lawrence Haddad, director of the London-based Institute of Development Studies, told Reuters in an interview that India would not meet UN 2015 targets on improving nutrition.
Haddad said [...]

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India asks US for more work visas

NEW DELHI: The Indian government has asked the US to increase the number of work visas (H1-B and L1) and ensure that there be no legislation to prevent companies from applying for such visas. India has also asked the US government to expedite action on a totalisation agreement to avoid double taxation on Indian workers [...]

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India may enter a drought state in 60-70 years

MUMBAI: India, which has been fortunate to have largely stable monsoon for the last 140 years, may find the weather behaving erratically due to global warming with persistent drought in 60-70 years, a top meteorologist warned today.
The Government’s efforts to push up farm growth might require some reorientation laying emphasis on arid farming and development [...]

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China’s cereal yield is 2.18 times than India, even though India has 1.47 times more arable land than China

Global food shortage an opportunity, Subir Roy / Business Standard, New Delhi March 05, 2008

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