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Y Yadaiah, 42, an electrician in the state medical and health department, had defaulted on a Rs 15,000 personal loan he had taken from ICICI Bank a few months ago.
Police inspector G Narasaiah said one Raju from Elite Financial Services — the loan-recovery agency which has a contract with ICICI Bank [...]

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Here is an interesting idea, forum mall in Bangalore claims that if you turn on your phone bluetooth while in their mall, they will push interesting deals on your phone as png files. I did turn on my bluetooth and set it to discovery mode for around 5 minutes, I did not get anything, but [...]

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I always wondered why there are no navigation services in India. Probably there are not enough customers. Finally I have found one decent road navigation solution that can be used in many places in India. It uses underlying google maps. If one is interested, here is how you go about doing it.
Buy a phone that [...]

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After the organized retail started spreading in India in big way, one of the point in the favor of these guys was that it is all about choice. I liked them to start with but slowly I am finding that it is not really about giving choice to consumer but taking away from them.
I regularly [...]

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Here is a photo of famous sun temple in konark that we took in 1986-87. I just found the negative of this photo in a pile some days back.

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Sagar is a funny place, its main market is called gujrati bazaar. Its main namkeen is called gujrati namkeen. Here is the old authentic shop.

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The dilapidated building in the picture is the chaudhary sweets (चौधरी मिष्ठान्न भंडार). His sweet made out of Melon Seeds (चिरोंजी की बर्फ़ी). It seems the sweets were so famous that Indira Gandhi would refuse to believe that somebody is from sagar if they did not bring this sweets.

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Here is my old school where I did my HSSC in Sagar, MP. Nothing has changed in the school.

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Next to big lake (बड़ा तलाब), the street almost looks like some happening place in Kerala.

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There is a new new cafe coffee day coming up opposite the boating area in Bhopal big lake. Good view of the lake from the restaurant.

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