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GELFAND AND Ponomariov have drawn game one in the four-game World Cup finals. At stake is a spot in the Candidates. Top seed Gelfand has had a much smoother passage to the finals. Seventh seeded Ponomariov had to fight harder. In the semis, Gelfand beat Sergein Karjakin, 2-0 in nomal time while Ponomariov won a hair-raising tiebreaker after losing the first game to Vladimir Malakhov.

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Sudoku puzzle
At the launch of Arvind Virmani’s book on Wednesday, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he was intrigued by the book’s title, The Sudoku of India’s Growth. He said he’d have thought that his chief economic advisor would not think India’s growth surge was a puzzle and that he would actually know what had driven the growth. Having got everyone laughing, Mukherjee said that though he had not read the book in any great detail, his interaction with Virmani had convinced him that though the growth may have puzzled many, Virmani actually had the key to the puzzle. Suman Bery of NCAER said meanwhile that the appropriate metaphor was not Sudoku but Rubik’s Cube.
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Telcos revenue drops in Sept qtr: Trai

The telecom industry added a massive 44.21 million new subscribers in the quarter ended September 2009, while the gross revenue of the operators has slipped marginally by 0.65 per cent during the same period, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said here today. - Railways earnings jump by 9% - Shipping ministry to double cost estimates of Sethusamudram project - 4 killed, 40 injured in two separate train mishaps - Family portraits - Trai likely to propose auction of 2G spectrum - Experts divided over predatory pricing Telecom operators have garnered a gross revenue of Rs 38,854.65 crore in Q2, slipping 0.65 per cent over the year-ago quarter. The subscriber base grew 9.51 per cent to 509.03 million during the period against a 464.82 million over the same quarter previous fiscal, the Trai said in its quarterly report. The combined wireless subscriber base (GSM and CDMA) grew to 471.73 million from 427.3 million, while the wireline subscriber base slipped to 37.31 million during the reporting period. With this, the overall tele-density (connections per 100 people) reached 43.50 as on September 30. The adjusted gross revenue (AGR), which is the revenue after tax deductions, for the quarter under review also declined 2.08 per cent at Rs 29,115.31 crore. The sectoral watchdog said the average percentage of licence fee paid by the operators to AGR is 8.41 per cent.


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