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Indian Railways is the owned railway company, which owns and operates most of the country’s rail transport.Indian Railways transports more than  20 million passengers and has one of the largest and busiest rail networks in the world, the Indian railways transports more than 2 million tonnes of freight daily.

Current Vacancy for Non Executive Posts in Indian Oil Corporation Limited. Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.(IndianOil) is India’s flagship national oil company and downstream petroleum major. It is India's largest commercial enterprise, with a sales turnover of Rs. 2, 85,337 crore – the highestever for an Indian company – and a net profit of Rs. 2, 950 crore for the year 2008‐09. IndianOil is also the highest ranked Indian company in the prestigious Fortune 'Global 500' listing, placed at 105th position in 2009.

Hindalco Industries Ltd., India’s biggest aluminum producer, raised $600 million selling shares to institutional investors, two people involved in the sale said.

Indian Hotels , owner of the Taj Group of hotels, has bought 2.25 million shares of the New York-listed Orient Express Hotels (OEH) at$5.75 a share, in a market transaction totalling $12.93 million (about Rs 64.65 crore).In a statement to the Securities Exchange Commission, Indian Hotels said its subsidiary Samsara Properties raised a $51-million loan from the UK branch of ICICI Bank, to part fund the share purchase. Orient Express Hotels owns several luxury resorts, tourist trains and cruises.

The United States will commit $40 million to underwrite the cost of holding elections in Afghanistan this summer, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday, as she began selling the Obama administration’s new Afghanistan policy to friends and foes.Read at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/world/31diplo.html?ref=world

The Cricket World Cup to be staged in 2011 in the Indian sub-continent will cost around 40 to 50 million US dollars.

More than one million people in Darfur are at risk of losing food, water and shelter in coming months, following the expulsion of international aid groups by Sudan's government, the United Nations' chief humanitarian coordinator said Tuesday.

Indian golfer Chinnaswamy Muniyappa stayed in lead for the third consecutive days and won the $1.25 million Hero Honda Indian Open in a play-off, beating South Korean Lee Sung to earn his maiden Asian Tour title here Sunday.

A week ago, 3.8 million state tax returns had been filed with the Illinois Department of Revenue, according to spokeswoman Sue Hofer. The department still expects to see another 2.1 million for a total of 5.9 million returns filed by the time the bell tolls midnight on Wednesday.