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Will India conquer the world with its 54 percent Young Indian population (lesser than age 24) and world’s fifth-largest consumer market?

” One remarkable aspect of the Indian growth story is the way in which it has left rural poverty and ignorance untouched. Even by the low standards of the developing world, rural [...]

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World Bank Uncovers Corruption In Health Projects It Funds in India
WASHINGTON — The World Bank announced that it has uncovered “serious incidents of fraud and corruption” in $570 million in health projects it funds in India.
An internal review launched in 2006 turned up wrongdoing in five projects dating as far back as 1997, including efforts [...]

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India’s touted job welfare scheme struggling: report
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Just three percent of households signing up to a multi-billion-dollar Indian welfare drive promising 100 days of work to every rural family actually got such jobs, a report said Monday.
India’s ruling Congress party had billed the drive as a “landmark” in its battle against poverty, [...]

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Andhra Pradesh: Bribes adjusted for inflation!
Narendra Ch, 02 January 2008,
The Andhra Pradesh government’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has come to the conclusion that only 10 per cent of the 14-lakh state government employees are scrupulously honest. Others range between the totally corrupt to the fence sitters.
CORRUPTION HAS become part and parcel of the Indian administration. Corruption [...]

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IANS Reports from Delhi:
“A delegation of Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf), a rights group from Malaysia met leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday for support against the plight of ethnic Indians in that country. Moorthy informed the BJP leaders, that about 10,000 Hindu temples have been systematically demolished in Malaysia since its independence [...]

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