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Random news

(Inclusion here is unfortunately contingent on whether or not the said news is being read online on a computer, as opposed to a newspaper/blackberry)

• World growth forecast for 2009 at 0.5%; 51M jobs may be lost

• Lilly’s Big Day

• U.S. Removes Kashmir From Envoy’s Mandate; India Exults

• India’s DLF looking at PE funding, asset sales

• Study finds world’s highest drug levels in stream near Hyderabad

• U.S. Plans to Curb Executive Pay for Bailout Recipients (of course this doesn’t cover the $20 Billion in recent bonuses)

• India to borrow a record INR 3.62T in FY10

• Pakistan capitulates; accepts Shariah in the Swat valley

• Seeking justice, Chinese land in secret jails