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While the Bombay Stock Exchange’s recent slump has left investors and companies nervously chewing their fingernails, a new breed of entrepreneurs has cropped up that is taking advantage of the recent situation. Hordes of small-time businessmen from Goa have started trooping to Dalal Street in what is fast becoming the success story of the year. Feni manufacturers and distributors have set up stalls and outlets across the Stock Market district encouraging brokers and dealers to drown their sorrow in a peg. A classic example of filling a need in the market.

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US President George W. Bush is angry at his country for ruining the birthday party he planned for the Statue of Liberty. The president said that he had planned the birthday surprise weeks in advance and the plethora of TV specials, parades and parties around the country gave the surprise away. The Statue of Liberty was supposed to have a grand birthday party with balloons, party favours and a huge birthday cake that he ordered nearly a month in advance. George W. Bush said that after the party was ruined, he didn’t want to attend anyone else’s party because it wouldn’t be as good as the one he had planned.

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The striking Screen Actors Guild have now added Anil Ambani to their list of grievances saying that the businessman’s interest in Hollywood could potentially damage everything the industry has worked hard for as well as the lives and careers of several actors. The strike, which does not look to end anytime soon, began over payment issues but the union representatives have added Anil Ambani to the list of problems saying that if the Ambani-DreamWorks deal goes through, all talented Hollywood actors would never get a chance to work in a good DreamWorks film ever again.

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Pakistan cricket coach Geoff Lawson’s outburst after Pakistan humiliating loss to Sri Lanka prompted a near walkout by the assembled press corps. After insulting Pakistani journalists by telling them to improve their English, tournament sponsors and TV channel Star Cricket decided to show support to the humiliated journalists by rejigging their commentary team with as many poor-English speakers as they could manage. Consequently, Roshan Mahanama, Akhtar Ali Khan, Salim Malik and Waqar Younis are occupying centre-stage in a battle of poor pronunciation.

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Diners in Britain have slammed a new report that says that Indian takeaway food is fatty and unhealthy. The report, carried out by Which? magazine, called Indian, Chinese and pizza takeaway food grossly unhealthy and unadvisable for daily consumption. It said that one Indian or Chinese meal had more calories than an average person should consume in an entire day. But what surprised the magazine was that people felt that given a choice between putting on a little eating good food s opposed to staying fit and trim and consume British food, the choice was simple - they’d rather have the fatty food.

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It was recently revealed that the David Fisher designed moving skyscraper, to be built in Dubai and Moscow, was also supposed to be built in the Indian city of Bombay. The architect had approached several builders and contractors to carry out the project in India but was turned down by every one of them. According to Fisher, the reason that no builder wanted to attempt something like this in India is that they do not see a market for it. A moving skyscraper would completely go against principles of Vaastu and therefore, the flats in the skyscraper would never sell.

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China announced various caveats to their “Right to Strike” rule, which was announced late last night. According to the Chinese government, they want to make sure that this newly declared right is not abused. While the government maintains that the workers would able to go on strike if they have good reason, they would have to outsource the actual strike efforts to neighbouring India so as not to hamper the production process. China believes that India has immense and ancient history in the strike and protest business and this new arrangement would be beneficial to everyone involved.

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