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Nov 18 2008, Shiv

Whenever I drive with hand brake on a red light starts flashing on the dash board & despite egging accelerator to move on the vehicle staggers with a limp. Similar seems to be situation with India today.

In order to cross over the threshold from.

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In this Aug. 26, 2008, file photo released by Vaishnavi Corporate Communications shows the manufacturing plant of Tata Motors producing the world’s cheapest car, in Singur, a village 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of Calcutta, India. The...