Cost Of A Cuppa Keeps Climbing
Those of us who can’t really get going in the morning without a cup o’ joe better be ready to pay up. Because of rising global demand (we’re looking at you, India and Brazil) and poor recent harvests the price of a pound of coffee beans has been steadily rising , and shows no signs of stopping. Many smaller coffee shops in the past year have had to raise their prices by ten or twenty cents and …

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A Yukon institution that keeps on giving
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” – Jack London

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India keeps close watch on Kosi, ‘Bihar’s sorrow’
By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, July 26 : With the crisis of 2008 still fresh in mind, when a rain-gorged Kosi river wreaked havoc in southern Nepal and India’s Bihar state, India has begun de-silting the mighty river to avert a fresh crisis this monsoon, the first such effort in nearly 50 years.

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Bank of Korea Keeps Interest Rate at Record-Low 2% (Update2) May 12 (Bloomberg) — The Bank of Korea kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a 15th month as policy makers faced risks from the European debt crisis alongside signs that the domestic economic recovery is strengthening. Read more on Bloomberg

Rubber production in India keeps uptrend
Thiruvananthapuram: Production of natural rubber in the country is keeping an uptrend of an average four per cent with the cultivation base and the productivity increasing, especially in Kerala which accounts for 80 per cent of the country’s total output.

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Shiv Sena keeps up offensive, Shah Rukh defiant
Mumbai/The Shiv Sena was on collision course Tuesday, taking on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The actor, who was in New York, said he would ’stand up’ for his comment on the exclusion of Pakistani cricketers from the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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