The people in that locality got tired of the bumpy road, and decided to pitch in a few thousand rupees per household to build a road. |
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Instead of spending crores of rupees on your Temple charades, why not put the money to a good cause like this one? |
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The district administration has pumped in crores of rupees to make the falls attractive. |
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They have to be content with a few hundred rupees after a hard day's labour at sea. |
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For instance, a three-wheeler taxi purchased in Colombo for about 150,000 rupees is taxed 65,000 rupees. |
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The two were taken into custody after failing to post bail of 50 million Nepalese rupees each, the reports said. |
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If you are a Muttrah merchant you must be equally versatile at least in rupees, annas, naya peis, dollars, pounds, baizas, dinars. |
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Sometimes they give him rupees and barfi, guilty that they have homes of their own and so many dollars. |
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If you are thinking of gifting them, consider shelling out around a lakh of rupees or more. |
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She asks me for a bottle of country liquor and one chicken and a hundred rupees and I beat her down to fifty because that is all I have. |
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To avoid the seizure of their buses, they must pay tens of thousands rupees monthly. |
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Well, purchasing power is up for sure and nobody blinks at a thousand rupees for a ticket anymore. |
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Southall, which boasts the first British pub to accept payment in rupees, is unworried. |
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Under last year's agreement, the daily wage rate was 98 rupees with an attendance allowance of 14 rupees. |
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These children earn very low wages, typically 10 rupees a day or less, and suffer occupational hazards and the threat of employer abuse. |
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The workers occupied the factory after a protest stoppage on January 26 in support of a 300 rupees pay increase owing to them since last year. |
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His friends, too, wander around selling odds and ends or collecting rubbish for which they get three or five rupees at the most. |
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The hapless travellers have to part with at least two to three rupees more for want of change. |
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My husband supplies cinnamon leaves to oil mills and earns 50 to 75 rupees a day. |
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The multi-coloured hand-made umbrellas made with transparent plastic, with big curved handles, look quite hep and cost 150 rupees each. |
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The nurses, who picketed the hospital, want a monthly salary increase of 1,500 rupees. |
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Trust reigned supreme even in verbal deals worth hundreds of crores of rupees. |
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With prices ranging from a few rupees to a few hundred, the lamps make for a memorable buy. |
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In this way an amount of roughly two thousand five hundred rupees every month can be easily collected with little effort. |
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If his first encounter of the day was with a sweeper, superstition dictated that he stop to give her five rupees. |
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Those who bring desi ghee from home for their kulcha get a discount of three rupees, I was told. |
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The highest price is 151 rupees, attached to a puzzlingly scrawny white bird. |
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On 7 August 96, the court also directed the Punjab government to pay one million rupees as interim compensation to Mrs. Khalra. |
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Some one revealed on condition of anonymity that a minimum area is transferred for 5,000 rupees. |
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Along with the afghani, Kabulis use U.S. dollars and Pakistani rupees to buy groceries. |
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For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top. |
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If you calculate the whole thing then this graft works out to thousands and lakhs of rupees. |
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The troops like to joke that every chapatti they eat costs 40 rupees but winter life on the heights is no laughing matter. |
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She and nine other women join together and borrow 20,000 rupees, which they split amongst themselves using a rotational method. |
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Businessmen estimate that goods worth crores of rupees have been damaged by the water in Kapda Market. |
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Moreover, thousands of crores of rupees had to spent to buy power for farmers. |
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Give or take a few crores, the national parties among themselves have spent a thousand crore rupees. |
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He said 50 villages in Amabla had been affected by floods leading to loss of crores of rupees. |
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Some of the screen printing units have received orders worth crores of rupees. |
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Had BMP implemented the project on its own, it would have saved several crores of rupees. |
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Raw and finished goods worth crores of rupees were destroyed as the rain water accumulated in the godowns. |
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Annually there is a loss of crores of rupees, only because dead bodies are cremated in India. |
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Stamp duty was reduced and the Government ended up losing crores of rupees. |
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The village of 20 areca farmers has an outstanding loan amount of more than one crore rupees. |
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All the other channels will be launching programmes giving away crores upon crores of rupees. |
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Crores of rupees have been spent on a layout that might just get buried under illegal constructions. |
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The violence disrupted normal life in the city and damaged property worth crores of rupees. |
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However, now, the trio are absconding after cheating people of crores of rupees. |
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Sarees costing lakhs of rupees and ornaments worth crores should be looked down upon by the society. |
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Eighty rupees a kilo for long leaf tea was an unquestionable bargain. |
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Last year was a disaster as the industrial units suffered losses of billions of rupees due to an eight-hour daily load-shedding and low voltage problem. |
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It approved the writing-off of the debts of seventeen officers including one of thirteen rupees owed by Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry subaltern. |
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In the first eleven months, burglars broke into 1,734 houses and looted valuables worth crores of rupees, making a mockery of the night police patrol. |
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The annual increment in my first salary as a mill clerk was five rupees. |
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A phalanx of money-changers runs between the shops, converting Pakistani rupees to Afghan afghanis to U.S. dollars on the fly. |
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When foreigners start to get really jittery about the war, they'll be trading in their euros, yen, rubles, and rupees and whatnots for solid, US dollars. |
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According to state government sources, the new recruits would be paid salaries of 4,000 rupees, less than half the normal salary of an office worker. |
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As learned and experienced bargainers, thanks to months on the road, we calmly explained that we were students and simply could not afford the 1000 rupees, which was true. |
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It is not difficult to raise a few crores of rupees in one year. |
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A 16-year-old boy who earns a hundred rupees a day driving a bicycle ricksha, led me to the riverbanks where the dhobis, or washermen, were working. |
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In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs ' munificence. |
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Crores of rupees change hands and children are forced to become slaves. |
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They have also identified 15 activities for the disabled to earn few rupees independently, as leaf plate making, sericulture, or a small loan is given to say start a tea shop. |
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The hawaladar in the UAE contacts a counterpart in Pakistan, who makes payment in rupees to the remitter's family or other beneficiary. |
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I got one cousin-brother. He dam rich. I speak him for the ten thousand rupees. |
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But they were both killed in the same engagement against Tippoo Sahib, her father owing ten lakhs of rupees and her husband nearly half that sum. |
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Kindly take one of my cigarettes, sir. Do you not admire my new silver case, sir? From the boxwallah, two rupees eight annas. |
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Sources told government was mulling over taking action against those who were involved in betting of billion of rupees and the rumourmongers. |
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He said our previous government denationalized and privatized the banks and now they are earning billions of rupees and paying taxes to the government. |
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Kashmiri Pashminas, with intricate embroidery, can now fetch as much as rupees 500,000 a piece at trendy boutiques and department stores in London or New York. |
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It merits mentioning here that MRI machine worth millions of rupees was installed in Holy Family Hospital in the year 1999 but it got unfunctional in a few days. |
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He said that government has saved resources of billions of rupees of the province and these are being spent for improving the living standard of resourceless segments. |
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He elaborated that Abrash Capital has invested Rs30 million in KESC in 3 years and another amount of six million rupees was expected by next years. |
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Through the Newspapers and Periodicals Amendment Act, the government tried to make every newspaper provide a bank guarantee of half a million rupees. |
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Top sources said that the Election Commission has noted with concern the statements made by Hawala operators about crores of rupees being transferred by political parties. |
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Mathur sighed that things had come to such a pass that no honest businessman could get even a challan form without first handing out a few rupees. |
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