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India invested over $26 billion and created 60,000 jobs in US: study
16 Jun 2010
Indians made 127 greenfield investments, creating an additional 16,576 jobs in the US over a five-year period ending 2009, according to the study.
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India to extend $1-billion credit to Sri Lanka
10 Jun 2010
India will extend a credit of $1 billion for funding Sri Lanka’s infrastructure projects, mainly in the former civil war zones in the north and east of the country
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08 Jun 2010
Foxconn announces second pay rise in China
07 Jun 2010
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Chinese bank to raise $30 billion in world's biggest IPO
05 Jun 2010
Though it did not disclose the issue price, reports say it would be the world’s largest IPO, overtaking the $21.9 billion raised by the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China in 2006
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US deficit nears 90 per cent of GDP at $13 trillion
03 Jun 2010
US national debt has increased by nearly $2.4 trillion since Obama took office in January 2009.
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G-20 to discuss global economy, financial sector reforms
02 Jun 2010
The meeting is also expected to discuss measures to make banks accountable by making them pay for future bailouts
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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