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Shukla himself has branched out of real estate. He started selling insurance six months back "to pay the bills," he says. According to various estimates, sales in cities like Mumbai and Chennai are down 30% to 40%. Hoping to induce buyers during Diwali, realtors are advertising cash discounts of 5...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mirroring the US, India's Real Estate Sector Melts Down | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

Shukla says if the situation does not improve, there could be distress sales within the next six months. The realty sector was heading for a cyclical slowdown even before the current economic slump. Over the past few years, increasing demand had pushed up prices, with speculators jumping in to further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mirroring the US, India's Real Estate Sector Melts Down | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...capable of engaging in provocative political discourse. Of course, political groups on campus have done their share of rallying excitement as well. In a political climate as potentially vitriolic as this one, both the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club should be praised for their willingness to create a dialogue that focuses more on the issues at hand rather than engaging in vicious personal attacks. The outcome of this election is likely to have a major impact on both sides of the aisle, so we are especially appreciative of their efforts to focus the debate on an intelligent...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Young and Apathetic No More | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

What can possibly explain this connection? For starters, it makes intuitive sense that a person who pledges allegiances to the local football team would be more willing to back a favorite politician. "In many ways, politics is a spectator sport in which you get to rank the teams, or the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football Fans More Likely to Go to the Polls | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

Long before a government report confirmed it, villagers living along the banks of the Thi Vai river in the Mekong Delta knew full well that the waterway was dead. They had complained for years that industrial waste discharged into the Thi Vai had poisoned their wells, killed all the fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam Cracks Down on Polluters | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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