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		<title>Tsunami on Dalal Street - The ever biggest fall in Stock Market in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Black Monday]]></category>

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Sensex   Today


Closing


Lost


% of Loss




BSE Sensex


17605.35


1408.35


-8.00%




S&#38;P CNF Nifty


5208.80


496.50


-9.53%




BSE Midcap


7881.99


1011.72


-12.84%




BSE 100


9443.13


959.49


-10.16%




CNX Midcap


7373.65


994.40


-13.49%




S&#38;P CNX 500


4425.55


500.30


-11.30%




BSE Smallcap


10911.66


1248.79


-11.44%




It was a highly dramatic and scary day for markets as markets saw their biggest ever fall. It was the worst day of trading in our trading history as the pace of the fall was unnerving. We started weak and with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s bold bet on new riches</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Construction]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Petro Rabigh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Riyadh]]></category>

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RABIGH, Saudi Arabia: The alarm bell sounded the end of the lunch break here one November afternoon, and suddenly thousands of workers — on foot, on bicycles and in buses — streamed in, seemingly from out of nowhere, and jolted this huge construction site to life.Amid a forest of cranes, towers and beams rising from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Inc aims high on IPO&#8217;s in 2008</title>
		<link>http://fusions.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/indian-inc-aims-high-on-ipos-in-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IPO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jindal Power]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mahindra &amp; Mahindra]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Reliance Power]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEBI]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Stock]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Economist says in an article on Indian IPOs that, &#8220;In the first half of the year, as many as 34 companies may list, raising over $14 billion, according to Thomson Financial, compared with $4.6 billion in the same period of 2007. And on January 14th state-owned BSNL, India&#8217;s biggest telecoms operator, said it hopes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFO Review - Birla Sun Life Special Situations</title>
		<link>http://fusions.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/nfo-review-birla-sun-life-special-situations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Birla Sun Life Special Situations]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mutual Fund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund - Special Situations Fund is a contrarian fund that will invest primarily Companies that would take advantage of  Special Situations like  potential gains from merger, acquisition, demerger, restructuring, divesting, buy backs, new funding etc. 
The fund may also invest in companies that are currently out of favor, overlooked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court bans &#8216;Jallikattu&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Alanganallur]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jallikattu]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Madurai]]></category>

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Jallikattu is an ancient and bizarre bull-wrestling sport that takes place in villages throughout Tamil Nadu every January to celebrate Pongal, a New Year’s festival that coincides with the ancient rice harvest. Though similar to and older than the Spanish running of the bulls, it’s bloodier. Instead of bulls getting killed, it’s the people. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investment Ideas - Mutual Funds</title>
		<link>http://fusions.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/investment-ideas-mutual-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Financial Advice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mutual Funds in India, usually charge an entry load of 2.25% for investment in equity funds. With effect from January 4, 2008, this entry load will be waived off for those investors who do not use the services of the distributors and instead invest directly by submitting their application at the AMC’s office/Investor Service Centres [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tata unveils People&#8217;s Car - The Nano</title>
		<link>http://fusions.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/tata-unveils-peoples-car-the-nano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[1 lakh car]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Auto Expo]]></category>

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NANO TECHNOLOGY: Ratan Tata unveils Nano, Tata&#8217;s Rs 1-lakh car, at the Auto Expo in New Delhi.
 
Nano is expected to hit the road in Q2, 2008  
Rata Tata has announced on the anvil of the &#8216;one-lakh car&#8217;  or the &#8216;people&#8217;s car&#8217; launch, now named &#8216;Nano&#8217; after the legendary  JRD Tata, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crude Oil Hits US$100, fuel prices expected to rise in India</title>
		<link>http://fusions.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/crude-oil-hits-us100-fuel-prices-expected-to-rise-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crude Oil]]></category>

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Oil prices soared to $100 a barrel on Jan. 2 for the first time ever, reaching that milestone amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will continue to outstrip supplies.
Surging economies in China and India fed by oil and gasoline have sent prices soaring over the past year, while tensions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear All,
Wishing you and your loved ones,  a very happy and prosperous New Year 2008. 
Best Regards,
Ramesh 
_________________________________________________________

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		<title>Ganga Expressway - Maya&#8217;s dream Road Project in UP</title>
		<link>http://fusions.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/ganga-expressway-mayas-dream-road-project-in-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ramesh Natarajan</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[DLF]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ganga Expressway]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ganga River]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mayawati]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Noida]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>

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The Ganga Expressway Project was launched by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati after coming to power in 2007. The project aims to construct a 1047km access controlled eight-laned expressway running along the Ganga river. This expressway will connect Greater Noida to Ballia thus ensuring high speed connectivity between the Eastern and Western boundaries of Uttar [...]]]></description>
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