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    Price Variation of Rice in West Bengal Abstract There is a saying that goes: rice and fish make a Bengali. West Bengal is a predominantly paddy growing state where 5,719,800 hectare of land is under paddy cultivation. The state of West Bengal has always contributed nearly 14-16 per cent of the all India production of rice and productivity of rice in West Bengal has always been higher than the all India average. Significant variation in the price of rice has being observed across the state at

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    latter three districts, however, account for less than 10 per cent of area under rice cultivation. Yield rate(tonnes per ha) | District | Share in total area(per cent) | Share in total production(per cent) | 1.5 to 2 | Jalpaiguri, Koch, Bihar, Darjeeling, | 8.78 | 6.26 | 2 to 2.5 | Haora, South 24 Parganas, Uttar Dinapur, DakshinDinapur, PurbaDinapur, | 24.68 | 21.95 | Above 3 | PaschimMedinipur, Purulia, Murshidabad, North 24 Paraganas, Nadia, Bankura, Hugli | 45.76 | 47.13 | Above 3 | Malda

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    Tourism in India

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    Tourism in India Tourism is the largest service industry in India, with a contribution of 6.23% to the national GDP and 8.78% of the total employment in India. India witnesses more than 5 million annual foreign tourist arrivals and 562 million domestic tourism visits.[2][3] The tourism industry in India generated about US$100 billion in 2008 and that is expected to increase to US$275.5 billion by 2018 at a 9.4% annual growth rate.[4] In the year 2009, 5.11 million foreign tourists visited India.

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    Let us all thank God for this meeting ("Transcript of Mother Teresa´s Acceptance Speech"). I am Mother Teresa, the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity and Patron Saint for Doubters (Eisenstadt-Evans, “Mother Teresa's canonization: She is the ‘Patron saint for doubters’”). I was born in Skopje, (the capital of the Republic of Macedonia) Albania in 1910. I’m a Roman Catholic and from the age of 18 began to study to become a nun in Ireland (Gray, 60). In September of 1946, I received

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    herself at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (IBVM), which is also called Sisters of Loreto, Ireland. It was there that she first received the name Sister Mary Teresa after St Therese of Lisieux. A year later in May 1931, she travelled on to Darjeeling India, where she made her First Profession of Vows. Afterwards she was sent to Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary's High School for Girls, a school run by the Loreto Sisters where she taught girls from the city's poorest families

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    Mother Teresa is one of the most written about and publicized women of the 20th century. She is the second most advertised religious celebrity after Pope John Paul II. Due to her fame, many people willingly step forward to offer their support and praise her work. The Indian media used Mother Teresa as a figure for a movement towards bettering the lives of those in the lower castes. They believe that if the Indian people were seeing a white, foreign woman caring for their family and neighbors that

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    Not For All The Tea

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    "Not for all the tea in China" is a popular phrase in the Victorian era. When Britain prevailed tea, the most of the tea was from China. Thus, if I give all the Chinese tea to you and you do not want it, this can tell how determined you are. American writer Sarah Rose wrote a book named “For All the Tea in China” describes a period of time in the mid-1800s how the British Empire stole tea from China. The main character Robert Fortune was hired by the East India Company to steal the secrets of tea

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    Janvi Patel Mrs. Frahme English 10 22 January 2015 Mother Teresa For generations, people around the world of all various social classes have lived very differently. People are wealthy and have things given to them, or poor and working hard for basic needs. Some were unlucky and born with defects that would affect them their whole lives. Others

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    Wes Anderson Anthropology

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    films, however, is that these liminal spaces, and the personal growth that occurs in them, is contingent on his use of religious ideological elements. His use of religious ideologies can be observed in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), and Moonrise Kingdom (2012), each of which integrates varied ideologies to ultimately aid in the critiquing of society—particularly familial structures—, the rite of passage, and the final reinforcing of the very structures that

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    Universal Banking

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    ICICI – A Universal Bank Presented By Under the guidance of Prof. Hemal Submission Date : 21/02/2010 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are greatly indeed to our honorable Prof. Hemal for all her encouragement support and facilities strength in getting this project to its present stage. Developing any project is not an easy job. It needs lots of human efforts, dedication and togetherness among the people involved in it. These things mean a lot only when there is strong driving force and continuous

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