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One of them explains: "If you were happy to pay 37 rupees for a plate of bhelpuri, do you think you'd even notice an increase? "

So he went up and asked, How much per kilo? And the shopkeeper said, Two rupees. Two rupees in India is nothing; its like dirt.

Yet, at the end of each day he would only have collected one or two rupees, barely enough to buy a dry chapati and a cup of sweet chai.

Officials warn that people trying to hide facts or give false answers may be fined up to 1, 000 rupees (about $ 22).

An illiterate 20-year-old weaver, he earns 2, 000 rupees ($43) a month, half of which he sends to his mother in the poor state of Bihar.

Starting at 3, 500 rupees ($70) for a pair of men's shoes, Joy is not cheap.

In his confession, Mr Raju said he had personally raised 12. 3 billion rupees ($250m) in loans to help keep Satyam afloat.

Mr. Chui is a member of Macau's business elite Cheap Rappelz Rupees , and could face heavy scrutiny from Beijing, at least initially.

Attendants also regularly pass down each car selling soft drinks, snacks, or excellent hot sweet Indian tea (garam chai) for a few rupees.

Two rupees in India is nothing; it's like dirt. So he bought a whole kilogram of the fruit and started eating it.

Government documents in the matter make no mention of the 18, 000 rupees.

Mr Ravallion and his team converted rupees, pesos and rupiah into a common unit of purchasing power.

Now he sat on the veranda of the politician's house. If you wanted to see the politician, you paid him fifty rupees first.

I will sell them to you at 35 rupees and when he returns from the city, you can sell them back to him for 50 rupees.

Revenue has increased several million rupees a month, he said.

"Our budget is 60 billion rupees ($1. 35 billion), but if all 10 materialize, more might be needed, " he said.

The villagers, anxious for their thousand rupees, gladly connived at the fiction that she had shot the tiger.

Rupees backed by an ATM receipt and foreign bank card may be sufficient.

In fact, says Gaushiya Khan, a local activist, medics are ready to reveal a fetus's sex for as little as 600 rupees.

The commerce ministry counters with its own forecast that the SEZs will generate additional revenues of 440 billion rupees.

With an expected operating budget of 16 billion rupees ($335m), these games will be among the best financed ever.

But I soon discovered that what talks best is dollars, dinars, drachmas, rubles, rupees and pounds fucking sterling.

It now borrows 34 out of every 100 rupees it spends.

Mr. Alva says the official told him the complaint would be dropped for 18, 000 rupees, or about $400.

People spent almost 40% of their additional rupees on wheat, rice or sugar: costly and (in the case of sugar) not very nutritious.

"I may charge you a few rupees more, but I make good-quality stuff, " Kartar promised.

One hundred rupees invested today will become 200 rupees in around seven years, if it earns a 10% compounded interest rate.

Laughter To save his own life, the man agreed to pay a hundred rupees.

But Gulf residents would be able to buy more with their money, and guest workers could send more rupees home to families in Kerala.

The share closed at rupees 175. 90 at the end of trading Monday on the Bombay Stock Exchange, up from rupees 144. 85 a week ago.

The negotiation was on. Finally, Joan bought three sets for that same 100 rupees (about $2).

Mr. Chandel said the diamonds alone are worth around 4. 5 million rupees.

Mrs Hiyale lives hand to mouth, subsisting in a slum on 100 rupees a day with the help of a local charity.

Tata Steel is in the process of raising as much as 16 billion rupees ($343 million) by selling shares and warrants to its parent.

Beneficiaries are entitled to up to 30 000 rupees (US$ 640) of cover for most of the diseases that require hospitalization.

In New Delhi, a man paid the police a bribe of 300 rupees (almost $7) to get them to hand over his recovered stolen motorbike.

The party had written a letter to him asking that 20, 000 rupees be donated to the CPN (Maoist) in the name of the VDC--but he did not pay.

Similarly, Indian companies are borrowing more in dollars without selling rupees forward to hedge repayments.

Now the central government recommends that nobody should get pay below 100 rupees a day, that's a little over two dollars.

The second option would be to intervene in the currency markets by selling dollars and buying rupees.

In its 2008 budget, India's government said it would cancel the debt of 30m small farmers at a cost of 600 billion rupees ($15 billion).

Sundays were off, as were Hindu holidays, so by the month's end you had saved only forty or forty-five rupees.

Gupta estimates India loses as much as 800 billion rupees a year because of corporate tax incentives.

Thus when Indian IT firms convert their dollar rates into rupees, they scare many potential Indian customers away.

Paying 16. 5 billion rupees for a licence in 2001, before India's market took off, was a much bigger gamble than paying the same sum now.

In Jamshedpur, a resident had to pay 500 rupees (about $11) to get a tax officer to accept a VAT payment on goods purchased online.

If you just want a pretty trek in pretty mountains, on a limited budget, spend your rupees elsewhere.

In Tirunelveli, a parent paid 250 rupees to the municipal agency to get a child's birth certificate.

Ms. Jadhav explained that the district government would pay 5, 000 rupees, or about $106, if the couple waited to have children.

An additional 40 workers received payouts in May, bringing the total to 104 million rupees.

He raised his first 100, 000 rupees (now $2, 250) from a second cousin's father and was introduced to yarn trading by a nephew.

In later years he set up an endowment of twenty-five thousand rupees for the maintenance of poor students.

Shy; Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it?

It has documented over 8, 500 instances of bribery adding up to nearly 375m rupees ($8. 4m) in backhanders.

Most of the time she took in less than 100 rupees a day.

"I am expert, " says Sharma, who admits to spending thousands of rupees on the games. "I can win any video game. "

India's tiger conservation authority had a budget of only 1. 5 billion rupees for the previous five years.

GTRE estimates it will take several hundred crore rupees to create such test facilities in India.

Some areas have latrines that can be used for a fee: 1 rupee (2 cents) for a single use or 30 rupees (62 cents) for a monthly family pass.

At less than four rupees ($0. 09) a pop, Indian papers are cheap, so many households buy more than one daily.

She supports her family of four with a monthly income of 2, 500 rupees ($55. 50) as a part-time cleaner at a hotel.

The RBI injected another 263. 65 billion rupees through a second auction.

I realized his intentions so I gave him 200 Rupees and got the thing done.

By its reckoning, this requirement would be met by the typical rural Indian spending 15 rupees a month at 1960-61 prices.

Toilet rolls, in one widely cited example, were reported to have been billed at 4, 000 rupees ($88) each.

And, of course, my daily fresh coconut for 20 Rupees.

Currencies? As in Euros, Dollars, Pounds and Rupees?

For the financial year ended March 31, DCB posted net profit of 383 million rupees, more than five times the previous year's profit.

"Can you count it in terms of rupees? "

Police in northern India are being paid an extra 30 rupees a month to grow a moustache to give them more authority.

Investors need typically around 2. 5 million or 5 million rupees ($100, 000) to get one of these contracts.

The rainbow-coloured sari growing under their fingers will take ten days to make, and earn them 600 rupees.

In Mumbai, part of the project is selling at 9, 900 rupees per square foot, compared with a market rate in the area of 18, 000 rupees.

Tata Chemicals makes a filter that requires no power and can give a family of five safe drinking water for a month for 30 rupees ($0. 65).

To sell to Indian customers, IT firms must think in rupees, not dollars.

We communicate with domestic relatives by VoIP in Chennai, with price within 1 Rupees per minute.

The Reserve Bank of India injected 489. 5 billion rupees ($10. 6 billion) through a mechanism it calls the liquidity-adjustment facility.

"Three hundred rupees, " he answered.

They dumped most of the Satyam shares he had pledged as collateral for the 12. 3 billion rupees in loans.

A 10-year-old child of an upper-middle class family living in a big city in India could get as much as 500 rupees a month, say experts.

Within six months, I'd brusquely refused my driver an emergency loan of 500 rupees ($10) to attend his grandmother's funeral.

No. 10 Jamal Malik is one question away from winning 20 million rupees. How did he do it? D: It is written.

As a clue to this, land prices are high in Shahabpur, at around 1. 5m rupees an acre, but land transactions are rare.

In October RCOM paid 16. 5 billion rupees ($418m), a price that has not changed since 2001, for a new GSM licence.

A few years ago the average Jet Airways fare from Delhi to Mumbai was around 8, 000 rupees ($180), twice today's average.

And the finance minister budgeted only 11 billion rupees from disinvestment.

The best part of the meal may be the end: the all-you-can-eat dinner is just 80 rupees a person, about $1. 80 at 45 rupees to the dollar.

We get 10 rupees a day which we can save in the bank.

Government of India will also require state-owned cooperative store in 35 to 40 rupees per kg in the wholesale sale of onions.

But Ratti Bai, when you earn forty rupees, why whore around?

The officer was just sitting on it and was demanding around 3, 000 rupees in bribes.

Let them know that if they want that big teddy bear which costs 1, 000 rupees, they're going to have to save from their pocket money.

The cost of chauffeur school is 5, 400 rupees, or about $120, per student and the course lasts two months.

There are no rupees for you this journey.

The family ran up 66, 000 rupees in debts from five MFIs to pay for the wedding of their elder daughter.

In Sri Lanka, tea workers are demanding a 75% increase in their daily wage, to 500 Sri Lankan rupees ($4).

Moreover, it is increasing subsidies for housing loans and allocating 1. 44 trillion rupees for food and fuel subsidies.

The luxury jewelry market is estimated to be worth 229 billion rupees ($5. 1 billion), according to the report.

A Bangalore office worker with skills similar to those of workers here commands about 7, 000 rupees a month, or $150, Mr. Srinivasan said.

On average, lodging will cost you 50 to 200 Nepali rupees a night, and each meal with a pot of tea, will run you 200 to 300 rupees.

Why would a goddess eat an offering of five rupees?

But India lacks a local equivalent. Its occupational pension funds hold assets worth 2. 5 trillion rupees, only about 5% of GDP.

For 600 rupees or about $14, the radiologist told the couple the bad news: a girl.

Madhya Pradesh government agreed to provide each of the victims' families 50, 000 rupees (1 U. S. dollar equals 44 rupees) a pension.

Tata has already invested 15 billion rupees in the project.

Shares in DLF Ltd. , India's largest listed property company, have fallen 74%; they closed at 159. 10 rupees Tuesday.

According to Tata, the Swach filter means a family of five could have safe drinking water for about 30 rupees a month.

One conservative estimate put the hoard's value at one trillion rupees ($22 billion).

They have destroyed homes, farms and infrastructure worth more than 220bn rupees ($2. 9bn), authorities say.

Your correspondent pays 20 rupees ($0. 40) for an 18km journey from the terminal to Old Delhi railway station.

Reports circulate of nearly 4, 000 rupees ($86) paid for a single toilet roll.

But the couple, who had borrowed to build this house, also owed 34, 000 rupees to a local moneylender, who charged over 50%.

According to Deutsche Bank, diesel prices have risen by only 31% since January 2009, whereas the price of crude oil in rupees is up by 180%.

He uses the cards to buy grain at government Fair Price Shops at the subsidized rate of about 2 rupees, or 4 cents, a kilogram.

It's 20 Rupees, it's different price for different stops.

Those who move will forfeit 50 rupees. Ready!

Some agents have as many as 30 employees on a monthly payroll, says Rafiq, who nets between 500 and 1, 000 rupees a day.

To participate, investors typically need to bring a minimum investment of 1 crore rupees.

Ispat has been negotiating with creditors to restructure some 70 billion rupees ($1. 7 billion) in loans.

On July 28th it reported that profit for April to June increased by 18%, to 6. 3 billion rupees, beating analysts' expectations.

The dollar buys 47 rupees at licensed currency-trading companies and 46. 70 rupees on the black market.

"I'm only paid 900 rupees a month, so of course I have to steal! " he explains.

Luxury cars, defined as those whose on-road price is 2. 3 million rupees ($51, 000) or above, are another favorite expenditure.

In Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, the government raised the minimum wage from 58 rupees a day to 100.

In the 1980s his company's workers cost about 700-800 rupees a month, he said. Today they cost 20, 000-30, 000.

Illegal ultrasound sex tests are often advertised with catchphrases such as "spend 600 rupees now and save 50, 000 rupees later" .

We could only buy relief goods amounting to 50, 000 rupees (US$ 585), a meager but precious first attempt.

She cooks for afamily in a nearby apartment, earning 4, 000 rupees a month, or about $90.

In the Pussy Cat, another dancer admits to turning tricks, for 1, 800 rupees ($28).

The gold roughly adds another 200, 000 rupees per shirt.

Thursday, the dollar bought 50. 995 rupees.

It will take more than excess of 1 crore rupees ($200, 000) to do this.

This earns him somewhere between 500 rupees ($11) and 1, 500 rupees a month, and no friends.

This earns them a combined monthly income of around 3, 000 rupees ($65).

One kilogramme of the wood can fetch 5, 000 rupees [US$100].

He had paid 3, 000 rupees ($65) to traffickers on the Indian side.

Claiming otherwise is tantamount to saying that 10 rupees is more valuable than $9 because 10 is a bigger number than 9.

Will he be back tonight to play for another 20 million rupees?

Including rural areas, Tata Housing sees an even larger market of 180m households earning between 90, 000 and 200, 000 rupees.

So, the first question for 1 , 000 rupees. Here we go.

Swach costs 999 rupees ($22. 50), and Tata expects to sell one million units this year.

Customers owe Mr Manjunath's family 20, 000 rupees ($440), interest free.

About 3% said they earned 100 to 500 rupees a day.

In March it launched the Nano, which in basic form costs 100, 000 rupees ($2, 100).

Do you exchange foreign currencies here? I would like to change my American Dollars to Indian Rupees.

First month's tuition is 27, 530 rupees, or $600 at 46 rupees to the dollar.

If your company doesn't provide it, you can buy one for around 3, 000 rupees ($66).

Before its launch Mint had sold 55, 000 one-year subscriptions for just 299 rupees ($6. 70) apiece.

Gujarat does this for all contracts over 500, 000 rupees ($11, 000).

Tata Motors shares rose 4. 6 percent to 741. 75 rupees in Mumbai yesterday.

Mr Singh's income has risen by 25%, to 7, 000 rupees ($149) a month.

Each groom has a price tag, starting at 1. 5 million rupees ($29, 165).

A retiree in Lucknow pays 1, 000 rupees every year in order to collect her pension .

Jet Airways recorded a net loss of 2. 25 billion rupees in the same period.

Price: 5, 000 rupees, or about $110.

Priced at 390, 000-670, 000 rupees each, they are already oversubscribed.

TheEnglish-language Times of India , circulation 3 m , sells at 1. 5 rupees; that's about 2 p .

In 1981 he pooled 10, 000 rupees in capital, or $1, 100 to $1, 200, with six colleagues to start Infosys, the outsourcing giant.

Onion was 10 rupees, 15 rupees a kg, now it is 20, 40 something like that.

On March 9th, for example, someone in Belgaum, Karnataka, admitted shame after giving 200 rupees ($4) to pass a driving test.

You should have seen them drink and drink. And they wouldn't pay me fifty rupees, which was all I asked.

A government report last year found that 77% of Indians live on less than 20 rupees [25p] per day.

TCS's shares fell 2. 6% to 546. 35 rupees, and shares in Infosys Technologies Ltd. , the other tech giant, fell 3. 5% to 1300. 35 rupees.

In the past three years, loans have grown from a few thousand rupees per group to Rs30, 000 last year.

A normal ticket from Delhi to Varanasi costs 1, 272 rupees ($29) in AC2 class, whereas a 1-day AC2 IndRail pass costs $43.

noon to 3 p. m. ; 7: 30 to 10 p. m. Dinner for two, about 160 rupees, or about $3. 65.

The Times of India, for example, costs just 2. 50 rupees.

For a few rupees or a handful of rice higher-caste men demand, and get, sex with dalit women

Rupees (If you deposit them in the Clock Town bank)

Indian Rupees and other coins, and British trade dollars minted in India