Bharat Oberoi, joint managing director of Powerica, which builds generators, won a limited edition IWC Schaffhausen watch with a bid of 17 lakhs, or 1.7 million rupees (about $34,000).
Rajeev Piramal, executive vice chairman of Peninsula Land, the real estate arm of the Ashok Piramal group, nabbed a private box at the cricket mecca Lords and a session with professionals at the MCC Academy nets, with a bid of 13 lakhs, or 1.3 million rupees (about $26,000).
All of these speakers - bar a lakh (hundred thousand) or so - have learned English as a second language.
Income above 5 lakh, or 500,000 rupees ($10,000) and up to 10 lakh, or 1 million rupees ($20,000) will now be taxed at the rate of 20 percent.
The population of Marriabad has swelled to about 100,000 -- a lakh, or quite a lot, in local parlance.
The policy sets the threshold for "economically weak" at a household income of below 8 lakh or 800,000 rupees, or roughly $11,300 ,per year.
While unwilling to disclose the cost of the entire project, Mr. Gandhi said each brass statue will cost 35 lakh, or 3.5 million rupees, the equivalent of $68,000.
The judges said the family of a victim aged above 20 would now get Rs 10 lakh or about $20,000 – almost half of what the high court fixed.
Rajasthan: The Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into the Bhanwari Devi case continues to be unsuccessful, and the agency has doubled the reward to 10 lakh, or 1 million rupees — about $20,000 — for anyone who comes forward with credible information (Daily News & Analysis).
The number of households in Mumbai is expected to rise from 42 lakh, or 4.2 million, in 2008 to 66 lakh, or 6.6 million, in 2020.
"Now I am in a position to take a venue of one lakh rupees," or 10 times the originally planned cost, he said.
