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Rajan exit notice before Brexit poses stress test for India

  Bloomberg As if Brexit wasn’t enough to worry about, India investors now need to cope with central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan’s impending departure. The rupee, Asia’s worst performing currency this year, slumped to its lowest level in four weeks, following Rajan’s weekend announcement that he plans to return to academia when his term ends in September. Volatility in the ...

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Tools that help reign over social media

  Chirag Kulkarni / TNS Social media channels can take all the time you are willing to throw at them and then take the same again. Yes, we need social channels for marketing, but it needs to be on our terms and work for us, not against. Luckily there is a wide range of third-party apps that make Twitter and ...

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Rough wind downfall of German gliding pioneer

  Berlin / DPA In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy. Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 metres (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government and the consortium ...

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