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Must be busy with his Business in times of recession !

Must be busy with his Business in times of recession !

Liebling also warned in the 1960s that the business models of newspapers would one day prove their undoing. A prophecy that rings true today for the giants of that industry in his own country. But the 2009 poll results in the Indian elections have made Liebling doubly relevant. Voting for our favourite millionaire comes alive with the 15th Lok Sabha House of the People. Its 543 MPs are worth close to Rs. 28 billion The 64 union cabinet members from the Lok Sabha account for Rs. 5 billion. (One US dollar is worth just under 50 rupees. So reckon the Lok Sabha s total worth is around $2 billion.) And the links between wealth and winning elections are firmer than ever before.

If you are worth over Rs. 50 million, you are 75 times more likely to win an election to the Lok Sabha than if you are worth under Rs. 1 million. At least, in the case of the 2009 polls. (Some 23 of 64 Union Cabinet ministers whose asset worth is in the public domain fall into this Rs.50 million-plus category. Providing it stability of sorts, I guess. In the entire cabinet, only one falls into the less than Rs. 1 million group.)

Another 29 members of the cabinet fall into the Rs. 5 million to Rs.50 million category. If you re in this bracket, your chances of winning aren t as great as the 50 million plus, or Platinum Tier, elite. However, you are still 43 times more likely to win than those with less than Rs. 1 million in assets (i.e. almost the whole of India s population). The remaining ministers, in case you were losing sleep over their condition, fall into the Rs. 1 million to Rs. 5 million club, the cabinet equivalent of BPL (Below Poverty Line). However, there are five years in which to remedy this situation and alleviate the misery of this group.

filth? No I don't speak filth these days. I keep my words, not like some MOOTANS. :)

Despite sustained high GDP growth in India, latest estimates of global poverty by World Bank suggest that India has more people living below US$ 2 than even sub-Saharan Africa. These new figures should compel political leaders and policymakers to devise fresh strategies to reduce poverty.

None other than the World Bank (WB) has busted the hype about India s post-liberalisation success. According to the Bank s new estimates not only is India home to roughly one-third of all the poor in the world, it has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $ 2 a day than even sub-Saharan Africa.

Compared with India s 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below US$ 2 a day, sub-Saharan Africa, considered the world s poorest region, ranks better with 72.2% of its population about 551 million people below the US$ 2 a day level.

She also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of turning India into a 'Banana Republic' by alligning with the US.
'Manmohan Singh has turned India into a Banana Republic aligned with the global sinister designs of the US and its military and economic exploitation of the world,' she said addressing a large crowd of supporters in this town, 200 km southwest of the state capital Chennai with a sizeable number of Muslims.

Must be some sort of South Indian gay thing....