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Unintended consequences of peace
Obama/Peace Prize: Ask a ten-year-old to make just one wish come true and almost invariably the child will hope for peace on earth. That’s wonderful – but not worthy of a Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee seems to think differently. It has awarded its prestigious Peace Prize to Barack Obama.

Geetanjali Krishna: The unofficial Tatkal service
It’s rather peculiar,” said a friend recently, “that of late, almost every time that I have tried to buy a train ticket, even if it is a month in advance, I have found myself wait-listed…” She was desperately trying to send off Sushil, her trusted right-hand man to Kolkata for some urgent business, and was unable to get tickets on any train going eastwards. “The air tickets cost upwards of Rs 12,000 — I don’t know what to do!” said she. Just then, her courier service provider, who happened to overhear some of this conversation, said, “Why are you getting so hassled madam? Just send him to the railway station and meet this travel agent friend of mine … he’ll get him on today’s Rajdhani to Kolkata!” But how could he do that when the train was full, she asked bemusedly. “It’s the unofficial Tatkal service,” said he.

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UP announces incentives for IT/BPO, realty
To lure the Business Process Outsourcing and IT/ITeS industry, the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh has showered various sops. The realty sector, too, has been blessed with many relaxations.
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JSW Steel's crude steel production doubles in Nov

JSW Steel today said its crude steel production more than doubled to 4.80 lakh tonnes in November. - RSP posts record hot metal, crude steel output - Govt warns JSW-led JV on delay in developing coal block - JSW and JFE Holdings in talks on equity sharing - JSW in talks with JFE Holdings on equity sharing - Bhushan Steel may sell stake to Sumitomo - Severfield-Rowen inks another Indian JV The company"s production of crude steel was 2.15 lakh tonnes in the same month last year, JSW Steel said in a statement. The production of rolled products (flat) increased 94 per cent at 3.15 lakh tonnes in November this year from 1.62 lakh tonnes in the year-ago period, it said. The output of rolled products (long) rose by a steep 197 per cent at 0.68 lakh tonnes this November from 0.23 lakh tonnes in the year-ago period. The company achieved 3.85 million tonnes of crude steel production cumulatively up to November in the current fiscal year, showing a growth of 52 per cent over corresponding period of the last year.


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