Word: gwalior
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...smart-phone services beyond major urban areas. In rural India, where Nokia controls around four-fifths of the mobile-phone market, according to Bernstein research, locals may not be quite ready for smart phones yet - but they will be. At the Mobile and More outlet in the city of Gwalior in central India, co-owner Gaurav Kukreja's best seller is a no-frills 2G Nokia. But, Kukreja says, "younger people from villages often go to cities to study. They come back well-versed with new technology, and with aspirations. They want the latest ... Its time will come." Nokia execs...
With reporting by Madhur Singh / Gwalior...
...pampered canines could fly with him on his plane." Despite their claims to divine status, India's maharajas knew they were just paid-up domestic help for the British, as one anecdote tellingly reveals: when he took the British viceroy of India out on tiger hunts, the maharaja of Gwalior measured the animals shot by his guest "with a special tape that had eleven inches to a foot," so that the Englishman would never suffer the ignominy of having bagged the smaller tiger...