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...Modi himself came to the BJP via the RSS, joining the group as an activist in his native state Gujarat in his twenties before switching to party politics....
...con leche (Asturian rice pudding)....
...While the country had previously been self-sufficient in staples such as rice, imports have now surged....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has hired former Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs Anand Shah as an operating adviser to CD&R funds....
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice named former Legrand SA chairman and chief Gilles Schnepp as a new operating adviser....
...A landowner from Nangarhar tells me the protection money he pays to the Taliban not to destroy his irrigation systems is just another cost of doing business. It’s conflict that kills farming....
...The largest deals included Blackstone acquiring a majority stake in Ancestry.com from US private group Silver Lake in a $4.7bn deal, and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice agreeing to pay $4.7bn for software group...
...The difficulty of doing business in Israel and the Gulf at the same time has deterred other supermajors from investing in the prolific Israeli offshore....
...As to the question of how to define Knightsbridge, the arbitrary rule applied here is that no restaurant should be more than a 10-minute walk from the Serpentine, Hyde Park’s ornamental lake that is the...
...I focus on my small business — selling British wool spun from our own sheep fleeces, as well as from other flocks in the UK, and creating knitting patterns for the craft market....
...School of Business....
...I walked around the edge of a small lake set in the historical naval dockyard site of Christianshavn....
...“We are a small Welsh company fighting in an industry of giants with a radically different business model,” he says....
...An access road and the eponymous lake — meant to be built as part of a Build-Transfer project — are not there yet....
...“They give us no information in advance so we cannot plan business at all. Inventories are piling up.”...
...Some note that the sauce-drenched gloves prevent fellow diners from checking their mobile phones during a group meal, encouraging social interaction....
...Chinese investors have also rehabilitated former collective rice planting areas near Lake Khanka that had fallen into neglect since the end of the Soviet Union....
...“I work as a casual labourer on my own land,” he says. “I am doing it just to survive.”...
...Rivers sometimes inexplicably turn red, plagues of dead fish can materialise overnight and algae blooms turn lakes bright green....
...In the north of the city, they are convenient for the airport and, crucially for those doing business in the city, for the industrial satellite towns where much of the world’s clothing is made....
...As each monk went by, poker-faced and eyes forward, I dropped a small handful of rice into the tin bucket he carried – and felt quite unexpectedly moved....
...Few doubt the potential to establish a small tourism industry, especially in places such as Robertsport, a three-hour drive north-east of Monrovia, where Lake Piso meets the Atlantic....
...It is an issue that is gaining increasing attention as the business ties between China and Africa continue to grow....
...For five weeks, his family lay in a dugout in the forest, while he would swim across Loktak Lake, under shelling, to retrieve from hidden stores of rice....
...The Japanese electronics group this week gave the deluge as one reason for a loss expected in its current year to March....
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