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- age of the oldest
MP in the 14th Lokh Sabha (House of Parliament): 94 (May 2004)
- youngest MP in the 14th Lokh Sabha:
26 years, Sachin Pilot (May 2004)
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average age of the MPs in the 14th Lokh Sabha: 52.7 (May 2004)
- number of women MPs in the
14th Lokh Sabha: 44 (May 2004, four less than in 1999)
- candidates with criminal background
in UP who made it into the 14th Lokh
Sabha: 12
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number of MPs in 13th Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament):
543 (feb 04)
- number of women
MPs in 13th Lok Sabha: 46 (feb 04)
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number of female Chief Ministers dec 2003: 5 (Sheila Dikshit,
Vasundhara Raje,
Uma Bharti, Rabri Devi, Jayalalitha)
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- total population:
1.06 billion people (mar 2004)
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daily population increase: about 50,000 people
- one baby born in India: every 1.25 seconds
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India's working age population (15-60 years): 610 million (estimate
2003)
- population dependent
on agriculture for livelihood: 65 %
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population living in approx 600,000 villages countrywide: 722.8
million people [2001]
- population
living in cities: 277.8 million people [2001]
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population living a significant distance from a road: nearly
40 percent
[Sahara Time, Mar 2004]
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population growth per year (1991 - 2001): India: 1.9 % -- Rajasthan:
2.5 %
-- Kerala: 0.9 %
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population growth in India within decade 1991-2001: 21.4 %
[HT Mar 04]
- population growth
in Kerala within decade 1991-2001: 9.42 % [HT Mar 04]
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population density in Kerala: 819 people per sq km (3rd highest
in India, after
West Bengal and Bihar) [HT Mar 04]
- population density in Ladakh:
1.3 people per sq km
- Delhi
population: 1981: 6.2 million -- 2003: 13.5 million
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population of Bangalore approx 2 decades ago: approx 2 million
[BBC, Jan 2006]
- current population
of Bangalore: approx 8 million [BBC, Jan 2006]
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population of different religions (acc to figures by census commissioner,
census
of 2001): 80.5% Hindu, 13.4% Muslim, 2.3% Christian,
1.9% Sikh, 0.8% Buddhist,
0.4% Jain, 0.01% Zoroastrian,
1.3% other
- loss of female births
within past 2 decades caused by abortion and sex selection:
estimate of more than 10 million [BBC, Jan 2006]
- annual 'girl deficit' due to prenatal
sex selection and selective abortion: 500,000
according to researchers for the Lancet Journal [BBC, Jan 2006]
- child sex ratio of 0-6 year olds
acc to census data 2001 (numbers of females per
1000 males): Himachal: 1991:951, 2001: 897 --
Spiti Valley in HP: 2001: 1009 --
Punjab: 1991: 875,
2001: 793 -- Haryana: 2001: 820 -- Sikkim: 2001: 986
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- position in
the corruption index of 133 countries surveyed (2003): 83rd
(survey
by Transparency International)
- number of districts in India (2003): 593
- number of families: 192 million
- number of houses: 179 million
- Indian families living in one-room-houses: 40 %
- number of places of worship (temple,
mosque, church etc): 2.4 million (more
than
schools, colleges and hospitals combined)
- number of gays, lesbians and transgender individuals:
70 million (estimate by
Humsafar Trust)
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estimated percentage of sexually active males in India who have had
sex with men
at least once: 25 % (estimate by National AIDS
Control Organisation health survey)
- Indian families who own a TV set: 32 %
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illegal immigrants from Bangladesh: over 15 million
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length of the Indo-Bangladesh border: 4096 km [Indian Express
Oct 04]
- most polluted river
in India: Yamuna (July 2003)
- annual increase of forest cover: 38,000 hectares (according
to HP forest
Minister Chander Kumar)
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India's first test tube baby: 1978 (world's second test tube
baby); Kanupriya Aggarwal
- literacy
rate: 1990: 52 % (61.8% male; 33.7% fem) -- 2001: 65.4 %
- * newspaper readership in urban
areas in 2006: 45% of urban population
[DNA
Aug 2006]
- * growth of newspaper
readership from 2005 to 2006: 12.6million more readers
[DNA Aug 2006]
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* average time spent on reading newspaper: 44 min [DNA Aug
06]
- * people listening to the
radio: 27% of the total population [DNA Aug 06]
- percentage of rain during 4 months summer monsoon:
80 % of yearly rainfall in India
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number of NRIs in Britain: 1,3 million (NRI: Non Resident Indian)
- number of Indian nurses working
in the UK: almost 10,000 [2004]
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number of additional villages electrified in 2003: 6,350 (acc.
to Ministry of Power)
- number
of single light connections released to "Below Poverty Lines"
family:
over 3 million (acc. to Ministry
of Power)
- number of portraits
of Jayalalitha by painter Shihan Hussaini drawn by his own
blood: 56 [HT Feb 04]
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India's road accident record 1998: 6 % of the world's road
accident deaths happen
in India (while India has
only 1 % of the world's road vehicles) [GBoWR]
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death and injury caused by accidents on India's roads: 1 person
dies every 6
minutes; 10 are injured in the same
time frame [BBC; Sep 2005]
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India's percentage of global car population: 1% [Daily Telegraph
Sep 06]
- * India's share of global
car accidents: 10% [Daily Telegraph Sep 06]
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financial losses due to road traffic injuries 2005: 550 bn
Rs = 3% of GDP
[BBC; Sep 2005]
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number of vehicles per km in Mumbai: 591 [BBC; Sep 2005]
- number of road accidents in Mumbai:
up to 35 per day (with up to 15 deaths per day)
[BBC; Sep 2005]
- number of cars
in Bangalore (Karnataka): 1.95 million cars (Bangalore's population
is 6.5 million people) [BBC Sep 04]
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increase of alcohol consumption in past two decades in India:
by 106 % [HT Jul 04]
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- * average yearly
retreat (vanishing) of Himalayan glaciers: 2006: 30 metres
--
1935-1999: 18 metres -- 1842-1935: 7 metres [DNA
Jan 07]
- * average decrease of
glacier thickness (of 30 glaciers monitored by WGMS) in
2005: 66 cm (WGMS: Swiss based World Glacier Monitoring
Service) [DNA Jan 07]
- * Himalayan
glaciers and years in which they are to vanish due to global
warming: Gangotri, Miyer, Mlion, Janapa to vanish
by 2030-2050 [TNJ Jan 07]
- *
number of people directly affected if above glaciers were to melt:
1.5 billion
[TNJ Jan 07]
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* length of India's largestglacier, Gangotri: 2006: less than
20km -- 1930: 25km
[DNA Jan 07]
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* rate in which India's largest glacier, Gangotri, melts: 28.1
metres per year
[TNJ Jan 07]
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* year in which Himalayan glacier Gangotri will disappear:
2050, if glacier
melt continues at same rate [TNJ
Jan 07]
- * distance that Siachen
glacier retreated between 1990 and 2001: 578 metres
[TNJ Jan 07]
- * average yearly
melt of Siachen glacier between 1990 and 2001: 52 metres
[TNJ Jan 07]
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- people below
poverty line: about 260 million (acc. to AB Vajpayee feb 04)
- poor living in India: one
quarter of the world's poor [BBC Aug 04]
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people living on less than 1 Euro per day (50-55 Rs) 2004:
about 30 % of population
- * number
of people in India living on less than 50 pence per day: about
300 million
[BBC News Night, Oct 2006]
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number of people living in slums: 150 million [BBC 15 sep 2004]
- people in Mumbai living in shanty
towns, open spaces, or on pavements: 50% of
Mumbai's population [BBC, Nov 2005]
- world's largest slum: located in Mumbai; Dharavi, 432
acres
- number of inhabited buildings
declared as dangerous or dilapidated in Mumbai:
19,000 [BBC; Sep 2005]
- number
of children in India who die before the age of 5: 63 out of
1000 according
to UN report [BBC; Sep 2005]
- children under 3 years of age in
Orissa severely malnourished: 21 % (Feb 04, acc to
National Family Health Survey); or 3.8 % (acc. to data collected by
the state)
- tribal children below
the age of six who have died of malnourishment-related causes
in 15 districts of Maharashtra: 9,000 (between
Apr 2003 and May 2004)
- number
of street children in Delhi: 150,000 estimate [BBC; Sep 2005]
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- * world record
in "worms eaten in 30 seconds": by C. Manoharan,
aka "Snake Manu", in Chennai, Tamil Nadu;
he ate 200 earthworms each at
least 10 cm long in
November 2003 [GBoWR]
- * world
record for longest hair: 5.15 m long hair by Hoo Sateow (1997)
[GBoWR]
- * world record for longest
beard: 1.83 m by Shamsher Singh, Punjab (1997) [GBoWR]
- * world record for the longest fingernails
(1998): 6.15 m as the combined length
of
the five nails of left hand by Shridhar Chillal from Pune, Maharashtra
[GBoWR]
- * age of the oldest
person to become Prime Minister: 81 years, Morarji
Ranchhodji Desai, Indian PM 1977-1979 [GBoWR]
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* number of movies output in India 1990: 948 (standing record)
[GBoWR]
- * estimated number of
people who donated hair at the Tirupati temple in
Andhra Pradesh 1999: 6.5 million - a standing
record [GBoWR 2004]
- * world
record of highest monthly rainfall: 9,300 mm at Cherrapunji,
Meghalaya,
July 1861 [GBoWR]
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* worst train disaster in the world: in Samastipur, Bihar,
India, on 6 June 1981;
more than 800 passengers
died [GBoWR]
- * highest motorable
road in the world: Khardung La, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir,
with an altitude up to 5,682 m (18,640 ft) [GBoWR]
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- expenditure
on education in 2000-2001: 778.5 billion Rupees,
equiv. to 4.11 % of the GDP of that year
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number of universities: 1950-51: 27 -- 2000-01: 254
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number of colleges: 1950-51: 578 -- 2000-01: over 10,000 (some
estimate over 13,000)
- * number
of college graduates per year: 20 lakh (2 million) [BBC Jan
07]
- number of teachers in higher
education: 1961: 62,000 (estimate)
-- 1997:
over 320,000 -- 2003: over 330,000 (estimate)
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number of students enrolled: 1961:17.9 million -- 1991: 72.4
million
- average number of students
per teacher: 220
- people
partaking of higher education: 1 person out of every 14,000
- number of pupils at the City Montessori
school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 2002:
26,312
pupils (world record) [GBoWR]
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number of Indians going as students to Britain: 17,000 per
year
- number of Indians going
as students to the US: 14,000 per year
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- number of cows
globally: 1.5 billion [NATURE oct 04]
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number of cows in India: 200 million [Times of India aug 04]
- number of buffaloes in India:
90 million [Times of India aug 04]
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annual number of cattle smuggled from India into Bangladesh:
6 million
- milk production 2001-2002: 84.6 million tonnes
- people who are farmers: almost 550 million [Sahara
Time, Mar 04]
- number of agricultural
labourers: about 200 million (many with daily wages
below 10 Rs per day) [Sahara Time, Mar 04]
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cultivation which is rain-dependent: nearly 60 percent [Sahara
Time, Mar 04]
- area in which
pesticides are used: 1980: 6 million hectare -- 1990: 125 million
hectare
- people in Andhra Pradesh
who depend on agriculture: 60 % (of population of
76 million) [HT May 04]
- number
of farmers in Andhra Pradesh: 12 million [HT May 04]
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number of small/marginal farmers in Andhra Pradesh who depend on rain
for
irrigation: 10 million [HT May 04]
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number of debt-ridden farmers committing suicide every day in AP:
5-7 [HT May 04]
- * number of
farmer suicides due to bad debt in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra
within the past 3 years (2006): 1,500 according
to revenue records --
930 since 2001 according to
Maharashtra state Government [DNA Jun 06]
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interest rates charged by "moneylenders" and local "businessmen"
for a small
agricultural loan: 100 to 450 % [Sahara Time,
Mar 04]
- GDP from agriculture:
24 % of total gross domestic product [BBC Jul 04]
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government spending for the agricultural sector: 8 percent
of the annual budget
[Sahara Time, Mar 04]
- total of arable land which is not
irrigated: nearly 63 percent [Sahara Time, Mar 04]
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bank credit allocated for agriculture: 12% of total bank credit
in India [Sahara Time,
Mar 2004]
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money allocated for various irrigation policies by the government:
620 million Rs
for the 2003-2004 budget [Sahara
Time, Mar 2004]
- disparity in
average income between farmers and non-farmers: 5 times
(non-farmers earn 5 times more than farmers) [Sahara
Time, Mar 2004]
- production
of fruit and vegetables by India: 14% of world wide production
[BBC Sep 04]
- India's export
of fruit and vegetables: 1 % of world's fruit/veg exports [BBC
Sep 04]
- India's tea production
in 2003: 856 million kg [BBC Sep 04]
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tea produced in Assam: 55 % of India's total tea production
[BBC Sep 04]
- daily tea production
in Assam in high picking season: 2 million kg [BBC Sep 04]
- decrease of Assam's best quality
tea prices within 5 years: 10 % [BBC Sep 04]
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- * size of population
in Allahabad: 2 million [BBC Jan 07]
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* number of visitors to Allahabad during the Maha Kumbh Mela:
1989: 15 million --
2001: 50-70 million [DI Jan
07]
- * expected number of visitors
to Allahabad during the Ardh Kumbh Mela 2007:
about 60 million [BBC Jan 07]
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* area covered by the festival ground in Allahabad: 1,620 hectares
(6.2 square
miles) [BBC Jan 07]
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* number of tents erected as temporary accommodation on the Kumbh
Mela
ground (2007): 50,000 [BBC Jan 07]
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* number of temporary toilets on the Kumbh Mela ground in Allahabad
(2007):
25,000 [BBC Jan 07]
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* number of police patrolling the festival grounds (2007):
20,000 [BBC Jan 07]
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- * number of
weddings in Delhi on the auspicious day of 10 Dec 2006:
around 36,000 [IND Dec 06]
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* cost of 2-3 bedroom middle-class luxury apartment in tier II or
tier III town:
around 20 lakh Rs (approx
25,000 GBP); tier II and tier III towns are about
2-3 hours drive from Delhi, for example Kundli, Sonepat, Panipat in
Haryana and
Rudrapur in Uttaranchal [TH Jan 07]
- * cost of equivalent apartment in
Delhi: 60-70 lakh Rs (approx 75,000 - 87,000 GBP)
[TH Jan 07]
- * cost of studio
apartments (1 bedroom) in Rishikesh: up to 30-40 lakh Rs
(37,000 - 50,000 GBP) [TH Jan 07]
- bottles of beer sold in financial year 2002-2003: 27.5
million
- Delhi's annual per capita
consumption of alcohol: 5.7 litres (compared to
9.25 litres in the UK, 14.02 litres in France) [HT Jul 04]
- average age a Delhiite loses his/her virginity (according
to a survey 2003): 18 years
- number of female births per 1000 male births: 1992:862
-- 1994: 840 -- 1995: 744
-- 1998: 899 -- 2000:
820
- abandoned babies per year:
2002: 90 (about 60 % female) -- 2000: 100
- estimated number of cattle / cows on Delhi's streets: 40,000
[NATURE oct 04]
- number of "cowboys"
hired by Delhi municipality to catch stray, free
roaming cows to be transported to special reserves outside
the city perimeter:
100 [NATURE oct 04]
- estimated number of stray dogs
in Delhi: 200,000
- estimated
number of monkeys in Delhi: 5,000 (with annual growth rate
of 20 %)
- monthly salary of
monkey catcher (government rate): 3000 Rupees
- number of fixed telephone lines in Delhi: 2.3 million
(2002 or 2003)
- number of mobile
telephone connections in Delhi: 3.4 million (2002 or 2003)
- reduction of pollution level in
Delhi since 1996: down by up to 73 %
(base
is year with highest pollution levels 1996)
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number of security personnel deployed Republic Day 2004: 23,000
- amount of explosives seized by Delhi
police in the run-up to Republic day 2004:
6.5 kg of high explosives, rocket propelled grenade, detonators and
timers
- tube wells running dry
in Delhi: about 20 % of the Delhi Jal Board's (water board)
total of 2,800 tube wells [HT Jun 04]education
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- beef consumption
in Kerala: 40 % of meat consumed in the state
- Haryana cost of buffalo: 18,000 - 24,000 Rupees
- Haryana cost of girl (human trafficking):
4000 Rupees
- Uttaranchal hydropower
theoretical potential: 20,000 MW
- Uttaranchal hydropower potential actually used: 8 %
- number of diesel engine tube wells
in Uttar Pradesh: 2.7 million [BBC sep 04]
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number of electric motor tube wells in Uttar Pradesh: 600,000
[BBC sep 04]
- installation of
solar pumps in Uttar Pradesh in 2003: 109 [BBC sep 04]
- number of guests invited to Tamil
Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha's foster son's
wedding: over 150,000 people at a cost of 2 crore
for security, paid by the state [GBoWR]
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* number of buses owned by APSRTC in 1999: 18,397 (APSRTC =
Andhra
Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation)
- a world record [GBoWR]
- * casualties
in 2003 in Andhra Pradesh due to Naxalite insurgency:
Naxals: 172 -- civilians: 137 -- police: 14
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* number of personnel (police and para-military forces) involved in
anti-Naxalite
operations in Andhra Pradesh: 20,000
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* number of years with uninterrupted Communist rule in the state of
West Bengal:
27 (since 1977 CPI-M in power)
[BBC Oct 04]
- * number of vehicles
on Bangalore's road: 5 million [BBC Jan 07]
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* number of casualties in the "jallikattu" (bull taming
event) at Palamedu, near
Madurai: 2006: 2 dead, 450 injured -- 2007: 50
injured [TH Jan 07]
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data sources &
key:
AT: Asia Times,
BBC: BBC online,
BRIT: Britannica
2002, BSNL: BSNL
Telecom Trends, BSt: Business
Standard, CIA: CIA
Factbook India, CIN: censusindia.net,
CNEI: Chandigarh
Newsline, c/net: c/net
news, ConSu: Content
Sutra DI: Daily
India, DNA: DNA
India, EB: EquityBull,
EI: ExpressIndia,
EW: EconomyWatch,
FE: Financial
Express, FL: Frontline,
GG: Gujarat
Global, GTF: Global
Technology Forum, GBoWR: Guinness
Book of World Records, HT: Hindustan
Times, ID: IndiaDaily,
IInfoLine: India
InfoLine IND: The
Independent, ITo: India
Today, NPBS: Nature
PBS, PhO:
PhysOrg, RED:
Rediff, REU: Reuters,
Sify: Sify
Broadband, TH: The
Hindu, TNJ: The
News (Jang), ToI: Times
of India, TT: The
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