How To Use Rupee In A Sentence

  • He states, that Mr. Hastings received for the appointment of Munny Begum to the rajahship two lacs of rupees, or about 22,000_l. _, and that he received in another gross sum one lac and a half of rupees: in all making three lac and a half, or about 36,000_l. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • No self-respecting shopkeeper would touch the defeated currency, instead rattling off a long list of what was acceptable, everything from Dutch guilders and Indian rupees to francs, pounds, and the rare American dollars. A Covert Affair
  • In this way an amount of roughly two thousand five hundred rupees every month can be easily collected with little effort.
  • Again to reduce 94½ Company's Rupees weight of pure silver to the standard of the Cabool Rupee 25 Company's Rupees are added no other alloy is used and the mass weighing 119½ Company's Rupees is coined into Cabool Rupees 147½. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • He said 50 villages in Amabla had been affected by floods leading to loss of crores of rupees.
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  • Some of the screen printing units have received orders worth crores of rupees.
  • In Bangalore, the police have recovered 20 million rupees ($403, 000) in two cases during this election, said Shankar Bidari, the city's commissioner of police.
  • If you are a Muttrah merchant you must be equally versatile at least in rupees, annas, naya peis, dollars, pounds, baizas, dinars.
  • The next morning the Brahmani took the paper, and while she was going along the road to the darbar reading it, the king's son met her, and asked what she was reading, whereupon she replied that she held in her hands a paper containing certain bits of advice, for which she wanted a lac of rupees. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
  • The premium for a standard structure policy is 50 or 55 paise per 1,000 rupees of sum assured. What if Japan Happened in India?
  • Delhi: Four years after the RTI Act came into force, lack of mandatory monitoring mechanism for its implementation remains an important "lacunae" while government agencies are shying from disclosure of subsidies data worth several crores of rupees, vice president Hamid Ansari said WN.com - Articles related to Ansari for better safety in mines
  • The 33bhp two-cylinder vehicle is priced at 1 lakh (or 100,000 rupees, about 1,250), excluding taxes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their jhuggi, just next to the Malibu Towers, is built on a plot of land owned by a Jat -- a member of the predominant, land-owning caste in Haryana, the state of which Gurgaon is a part -- whom they call Pehelvan ( "wrestler") and pay 600 Rupees a month for the right to live there illegally. Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
  • He told them that he had tried to bribe the cops with fifteen thousand rupees per family, which was the going rate, but the lines at the local thana, or police station, were too long -- he was not the only jhuggi slumlord in booming Gurgaon with the same idea -- and it might make better sense for them to leave till "the games are over". Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
  • In the account given by the Begum, a lac, which is for Mr. Hastings's entertainment, is entered in a suspicious neighborhood; for there is there entered a lac of rupees paid for the subahdarry sunnuds to the Mogul through the Rajah Shitab Roy. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
  • The people in that locality got tired of the bumpy road, and decided to pitch in a few thousand rupees per household to build a road.
  • October 8, 2009 at 3:49 am that b sumfing u merry kans are moar lucky than us central yurupeens. Dis veggee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The conditions include a bar on visiting the telecom department without the court's prior permission and posting two sureties of 300,000 rupees $5,780 each. India Court Grants Bail to Chandolia
  • Each family is being given a cash handout of six thousand rupees.
  • Each family is being given a cash handout of six thousand rupees.
  • JAIPUR: A man and his wife were seriously injured when armed miscreants attacked them with iron rods and fled with cash and jewellery worth several lakhs of rupees from their house in Bhagat colony under the Bassi police station in Jaipur district during wee hours on Wednesday. The Times of India
  • Kalas a rupee to purchase 'gur' (coarse sugar), of which all the females partake, as a sacred offering to the sex. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • The Rajah of Benares receives from the English government an annual pension of one lac, that is, 100,000 rupees (10,000 pounds). A Woman's Journey Round the World
  • India has devalued the Rupee by about eleven per cent.
  • Nasdaq would form a trading platform once the rupee was made fully convertible.
  • They are expected to earn about 25,000 rupees a month, nearly three times the salary of a chauffeur and five times the pay of a domestic maid. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indian rupee has lost more than 15 percent this financial year.
  • NEW DELHI – IndiGo will begin international flights from Sept. 1, starting with Dubai, Singapore and Bangkok at initial return fares of 9,999 rupees $223, intensifying competition with other Indian and overseas airlines on these busy and lucrative short-haul routes. IndiGo to Start Cut-Price Overseas Flights
  • The casuals are only paid 100 rupees a day.
  • 4,000 women put in ten rupees each, which if my arithmetic is right adds up to 40,000 rupees.
  • Iran has also accepted payment for oil in rupees, rather than dollars, the standard currency for oil deals. Times, Sunday Times
  • 4,000 women put in ten rupees each, which if my arithmetic is right adds up to 40,000 rupees.
  • Indian rupees are available from some foreign exchange providers in the UK despite a ban on trading the currency. The Sun
  • With a portfolio valued between 10 and 20 lakhs of rupees, Mullah Badr al-Din was considered the "richest" merchant in Kabul, was honorifically referred to as baba or father by Dost Muhammad, and figured prominently in the trade between Russia and Bukhara. 50 Mullah Badr al-Din's son Khair al-Din also enjoyed a glowing mercantile reputation in Central Asia. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Note 56: To rent additional camels for the transport of Durrani state property the qafilabashi relied on a number of "tahsil thekadars," who functioned as brokers in Peshawar's animal labor market and received an anna or one sixteenth of a rupee on each camel they provided. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • In a bank, I could only spend 60 paise of every rupee that I have on infrastructure. IDFC Gears Up for Second Growth Wave
  • Thus Australia used rupees, guilders, and Spanish dollars.
  • After sweeping the Golden Globe awards, “Slumdog Millionaire,” the plucky movie about an uneducated underdog from the slums of Bombay who wins 20 million rupees on the local version of the quiz show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, has become the Oscar race overdog. “Slumdog Millionaire”
  • Much to the amusement of the car driver, the man in khaki fished out a couple of hundred rupee notes towards compensation.
  • When foreigners start to get really jittery about the war, they'll be trading in their euros, yen, rubles, and rupees and whatnots for solid, US dollars.
  • Besides, the outlook on the Indian rupee is bleak, making it advantageous for TCS to leave its foreign-currency revenue unhedged. TCS: Hedging for Shorter Period Than Before
  • Sarees costing lakhs of rupees and ornaments worth crores should be looked down upon by the society.
  • The minister also said that for every increase of 1,000 rupees per kiloliter in jet fuel prices, the cost impact on the industry is 3 billion rupees. India to Form Ministers Panel for Jet Fuel Prices
  • Iran has also accepted payment for oil in rupees, rather than dollars, the standard currency for oil deals. Times, Sunday Times
  • He criticized increasing rate of firewood, which is selling at 300 rupees per mound. 1500 Border Police would be recruited in CHitral DCO said
  • * (* Bravo!) and the Punjabi equivalent of "Mr Chairman!", some pointing out that the Maharani had promised them fifteen rupees a month to march against the bastardised British pigs (the spectator in the jampan drew his curtain tactfully at this point) and Jawaheer was just the chap to lead them. Flashman and the Mountain of Light
  • The project cost him just five thousand rupees; the bricks sold for twenty-five thousand. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • The gym has contributed more than 40,000 rupees [more than $900 U.S.] and also delivered a truckload of slippers, rice and clothing to the victims.
  • The relatively weak Indian rupee may contribute to this trend. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some one revealed on condition of anonymity that a minimum area is transferred for 5,000 rupees.
  • Its average revenue per user--a key gauge of profitability for wireless telecom companies--for its mobile internet services was 250 rupees and 600 rupees per month for its prepaid and post-paid users, respectively. Interview: Sistema Shyam Keen to Acquire or Merge in India
  • On the downside, the Iceland krona fell 0.9%, the Japanese yen 0.8%, and the Indian rupee 0.8%.
  • DLF led bargain-hunting in real estate shares, rising 2.6% to 231.00 rupees. India Shares Edge Lower on Weak Earnings
  • Moreover, thousands of crores of rupees had to spent to buy power for farmers.
  • Had BMP implemented the project on its own, it would have saved several crores of rupees.
  • On the plains between and adjacent to the Ganges and the Jumna, for two thousand years herds of black-buck, or sasin antelope, have roamed over cultivated fields so thickly garnished with human beings that to-day the rifle-shooting sportsman stands in hourly peril of bagging a five-hundred-rupee native every time he fires at an antelope. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • Crores of rupees have been spent on a layout that might just get buried under illegal constructions.
  • Businessmen estimate that goods worth crores of rupees have been damaged by the water in Kapda Market.
  • She and nine other women join together and borrow 20,000 rupees, which they split amongst themselves using a rotational method.
  • The fish that originally sold for a penny eventually brought 5000 rupees.
  • The Kandahar Newsletter entry from June 8, 1891, also included the following: A Tahsildar has been appointed to collect all the 'Kaldar' rupees procurable in Kandahar. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Future Group's Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd., which needs funds to pare its debt of more than 40 billion rupees ($775 million) and keep its stores expansion going, is likely to be the hardest hit by the government's volte-face. Indian Retailers to Pitch for Non-Food Multi-Brand Retail
  • Now he is working in a restaurant earning 35,000 rupees a month and has moved out of the slum into a house of his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • Holland, the quarter-ruble of Russia, the 200-reis piece of Portugal, the 5-piastre piece of Turkey, the half-milreis of Brazil and the half-rupee of India, all interchangeable with the English shilling, and all of them about the value of the quarter-dollar of North and Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
  • He has a long list of currencies that could come under severe pressure, which includes the Indian rupee, the South Korean won and the Brazilian real, as well as "most" east European currencies.
  • The hapless travellers have to part with at least two to three rupees more for want of change.
  • Nabob to sign a receipt, in consequence of which they received, at two different times, near fifty thousand rupees, in the name of the officers of the adawlut, foujdarry, &c., from the Company's sircar; and having drawn up an account current in the manner they wished, they got the The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
  • With prices ranging from a few rupees to a few hundred, the lamps make for a memorable buy.
  • For instance, a three-wheeler taxi purchased in Colombo for about 150,000 rupees is taxed 65,000 rupees.
  • Of the total provisions, 27.82 billion rupees was set aside against bad loans while the remainder was against the mark-to-market depreciation on its equities and bond portfolios and other regulatory provisioning requirements. State Bank of India Net Drops 46%
  • They have to be content with a few hundred rupees after a hard day's labour at sea.
  • Those devious, thieving bastards were expecting Dan to pay 90,000 Rupees to be driven 500 kilometers.
  • The story now takes us into a flashback to show Seshadri Naidu as a hardworking canteen owner who sells roti-dal-buttermilk for a rupee - making just 10 paise profit.
  • You can use cheap rappelz rupees to but things for abreact. TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Under last year's agreement, the daily wage rate was 98 rupees with an attendance allowance of 14 rupees.
  • Off they went highly delighted with the results of the interview, clapping their orator on the back, crying out _sh [= a] bash, sh [= a] bash, bravo, bravo_, and evidently believing the gift of the rupees as entirely due to the eloquence of their comrade. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
  • Rather than leave a blank I have hazarded a reading congruent with the other Indian terms (rupee, nabob) in the text.
  • One woman threw down a rupee and stooped to pick up change. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • The Airports Authority of India, the state-run body which runs most airports, last week put the airline on cash-and-carry, after it failed to provide bank guarantees for its outstanding bills of 2.15 billion rupees. Mumbai Airport Puts Kingfisher Airlines on Cash-and-Carry
  • The rupee climbed in the last half hour of trade on Friday, rising from an intra-day one-week low, as banks unwinded long dollar positions on speculation RBI may raise rates soon. The Economic Times
  • The Elaeagnus is called Sinjit: it produces a small red fruit, used in medicine as an astringent, it ripens in August, and sells at eight or nine seers the rupee; it is exported in small quantities; but the plant is not much esteemed. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • 4,000 women put in ten rupees each, which if my arithmetic is right adds up to 40,000 rupees.
  • Each family is being given a cash handout of six thousand rupees.
  • As far as your girl being a ‘gold’ digger, she'd be lucky to find a dud Bombay rupee in your piggy bank, James.
  • The Indian rupee is seeking a symbol. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many mistook the honey-sweet vocals on the track for Bajan sensation Rupert "Rupee" Clarke.
  • The total sums involved run into crores of rupees, the equivalent of several million pounds sterling, every year in perpetuity. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • On 7 August 96, the court also directed the Punjab government to pay one million rupees as interim compensation to Mrs. Khalra.
  • Videlicet, sir, this week a fellow captive is minus a finger and thumb -- and all for oversight of six annas {the anna is the 16th part of a rupee}. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
  • Emerging countries were hit hardest, with the Indian rupee hammered against the dollar. Times, Sunday Times
  • For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top.
  • MPs enjoy quaint privileges-the finance ministry sells confiscated weapons costing lakhs of rupees to trigger-happy MPs at a fraction of the cost.
  • Before joining the course she earned 8,000 rupees as a lecturer. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you are thinking of gifting them, consider shelling out around a lakh of rupees or more.
  • Well, purchasing power is up for sure and nobody blinks at a thousand rupees for a ticket anymore.
  • It capitalized on the Lux-soap brand, and it cost less than any other sachet: just 50 paise compared with two rupees.
  • The oval-shaped Nano comes with a 624-cubic-centimeter, rear gasoline engine and currently costs 140,880 rupees $3,151 for the base model at showrooms in New Delhi. Tata Exporting Nano
  • Gregorian, p. 401, notes the British Indian rupee was composed of 16 annas with each anna being equal to 12 pice. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • On receiving news that Moody's had turned its India outlook from stable to positive, the rupee rose four paise.
  • Local officials initially sought to cover up the loss, but the disappearance of more than ten million rupees - known in India as a 'crore' - was discovered following the arrival of a new manager. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • The length and inclination of the _bast_ necessarily vary with the nature of the cliff, but as the Badi is remunerated at the rate of a rupee for every hundred cubits, hence termed a tola, The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • Some of the screen printing units have received orders worth crores of rupees.
  • Along with the afghani, Kabulis use U.S. dollars and Pakistani rupees to buy groceries.
  • In the past quarter, it took a mark-to-market loss of 5.09 billion rupees on the unhedged portion of its overseas borrowing. Steel Authority Profit Falls 55%
  • One woman threw down a rupee and stooped to pick up change. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • Another favourite ornament is the _hamel_ or necklace of rupees. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • All the other channels will be launching programmes giving away crores upon crores of rupees.
  • Every day my cousins and I would make several trips to distant Virar, then located outside Mumbai, where we would buy rice for 1 rupee and 14 annas per pound.
  • A more telling index of the progress of the War on Terror is the exchange rate between the dollar and the Pakistani rupee.
  • Southall, which boasts the first British pub to accept payment in rupees, is unworried.
  • In the Bengal bazaar, a maund equals eighty-two pounds and two ounces, and in Akyab, beetle wings fetch six to seven rupees per maund. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
  • It approved the writing-off of the debts of seventeen officers including one of thirteen rupees owed by Winston Churchill, then a young cavalry subaltern.
  • The workers occupied the factory after a protest stoppage on January 26 in support of a 300 rupees pay increase owing to them since last year.
  • This odd claim may result from his unconscious resort to exchange rate evaluation, in other words, Gray may have considered 12 annas as the value of a Kabuli rupee in relation to a British Indian rupee, but not have informed his readers of such. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • The Road Transport Office in Mumbai officially charges 200 rupees for a permanent license and 30 rupees for a learner's permit valid for 30 days.
  • Hyundai's new car will also compete with the top-end versions of the Nano minicar, the world's cheapest car, which costs 140,880 rupees-196,556 rupees in New Delhi. Hyundai to Introduce New Small Car in India
  • Those who bring desi ghee from home for their kulcha get a discount of three rupees, I was told.
  • “My son,” the bonze answers, “give me twenty rupees and God will give you grace to believe all that you now do not believe.” A Philosophical Dictionary
  • In the first eleven months, burglars broke into 1,734 houses and looted valuables worth crores of rupees, making a mockery of the night police patrol.
  • Their jhuggi, just next to the Malibu Towers, is built on a plot of land owned by a Jat -- a member of the predominant, land-owning caste in Haryana, the state of which Gurgaon is a part -- whom they call Pehelvan ( "wrestler") and pay 600 Rupees a month for the right to live there illegally. Parvez Sharma: Delhi's Servant Crisis and the Commonweath Games
  • By comparison, coal-fired power plants located at pithead sites get a tariff of 1.70 rupees per kWh while those burning imported coal get up to 2.60 rupees per kWh. India to Add Renewable Power Ability
  • The tola is a rupee's weight, or two-fifths of an ounce. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • The instability of the rupee and the decision to float the currency highlight the country's underlying economic and political crisis.
  • I brought it to a money-lender in a bylane, and I asked for three rupees upon it. Life's Handicap
  • The multi-coloured hand-made umbrellas made with transparent plastic, with big curved handles, look quite hep and cost 150 rupees each.
  • In Lucknow, the Shia auqaf properties are higher in number, their value running in billions of rupees, perhaps due to Lucknow's Shia nawabs ' munificence.
  • The owners of the hackeries were expected to purchase bhoosa and other fodder for their bullocks at the market price; but they took what they required without payment, in _collusion with_ the officers under whom they were employed, or in _spite_ of them; and the Oude Government in 1845 cut the allowance down to seventeen rupees and half, out of which _three rupees and half_ are cut for perquisites, leaving fourteen rupees for the hackeries: and their owners and drivers have the free privilege of helping themselves to bhoosa and other fodder wherever they can find them. A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II
  • Formerly, district and subdistrict administrators for the Durrani government would disburse between four and five rupees as annual cash stipends directly to certain local chiefs. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • Reliance Communications rose 2.8% to 112.20 rupees on bargain-hunting a day after its stock fell sharply. India Shares End Tad Lower
  • Managing the rupee by controlling capital inflows requires targeting portfolio flows.
  • Annually there is a loss of crores of rupees, only because dead bodies are cremated in India.
  • By the gate, stalls churn out paratha and dal for a few rupees. Times, Sunday Times
  • Bhutanese ngultrum is at par with the Indian rupee The 1994 CIA World Factbook
  • I had to spend seven rupees on you - give my money back and get the hell out of my house - scram!
  • The Salvation Army in Sri Lanka had a reputation for making a rupee stretch further than anyone else.
  • I was to receive a salary of 200 rupees by the month, in addition to which Mr. Holwell undertook to procure me a dustuck from the Governor, enabling any merchandise I chose to trade in to pass through the province of Bengal free of taxes or duties to the Nabob's government. Athelstane Ford
  • A ticca-gharry deposited a sea captain; three carriages arrived in succession; an indefinite number of the Duke's Own, hardly any of them drunk, filed in to the rupee seats under the gallery; an overflow from Hilda A Story of Calcutta
  • State-run Canara Bank Wednesday launched an institutional share sale to raise up to 20 billion rupees, two people familiar with the matter said. Canara Bank Launches 20 Billion Rupees Institutional Share Sale - Sources
  • Raw and finished goods worth crores of rupees were destroyed as the rain water accumulated in the godowns.
  • The afghani also fell sharply against the Pakistani rupee.
  • This year, it is down roughly 4% against the Indian rupee, the Indonesian rupiah and the Korean won, and 3% against the Thai baht.
  • On the upside, the Japanese yen gained 4.3%, the Hungarian forint 3.0%, the Iceland krona 2.9%, and the Indian rupee 2.0%.
  • Due to falling world silver prices during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the silver rupee was depreciated.
  • The euro has depreciated against the dollar and the dollar has gone down against the rupee.
  • The offer rate increased to 25 rupees and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!
  • In 1825 it had been estimated that the Oudh forests alone contained from 4000 to 6000 dacoits, while the property stolen in 1811 from known dacoities was valued at ten lakhs of rupees. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • A leading bookie told TOI that the ‘bhav†™ or odds on Sania getting married to Shoaib on April 15 was 25 paise - in other words, for every rupee placed on the wedding taking place, a bettor would get Rs 1.25 paise. The Times of India
  • The village of 20 areca farmers has an outstanding loan amount of more than one crore rupees.
  • Nepal's government said Monday it would provide 100000 rupees (about $1270) to inter-caste couples when they marry to discourage discrimination against those with lower status, AFP reported.
  • Then comes a rain of law suits - he is suing people for a hundred million rupees.
  • Separately, John Chacko , president and managing director of Volkswagen India Pvt. Ltd., said Volkswagen and two other of the group's brands -- Skoda Auto a.s. and Audi AG -- will invest a combined 20 billion rupees $380 million in the next two-and-a-half years to expand their activity in the country, including in after-sales such as supply of spare parts and warehousing. Volkswagen May Expand India Capacity
  • Mr. Patel said jet fuel currently costs the most in Kolkata at 46,000 rupees per kiloliter. India to Form Ministers Panel for Jet Fuel Prices
  • _Jumowah_, at nine rupees per biggah, which is very easily effected if the planter is not very vigilant, he is obliged to maintain an extensive and imposing establishment of servants, not only to enforce the sowings, weeding, and cutting, but also to look after his khoonte, and protect it from being destroyed by bullocks and grass cutters, or from being ploughed up clandestinely by the The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • The government increased the price of diesel by 2 rupees a liter and said the fuel will also be decontrolled in the near-future, though it didn't say by when. India State Oil Firms Expect Profit Boost
  • The 50-rupee note in my pocket will do, I decide. I buy two chocolate flavoured ice cream cones.
  • He would not ask for, nor accept, anything more than a one-rupee coin, as he did not want big-money interests to monopolize the temple.
  • The miner will now pay $6.02 billion to acquire a 40% stake in Cairn India from its parent, instead of $6.6 billion, after both the companies agreed to remove a noncompetition fee of 50 rupees $1.11 a share. Cairn, Vedanta Get India's OK
  • Poor families can ill afford more than a few rupees.
  • If his first encounter of the day was with a sweeper, superstition dictated that he stop to give her five rupees.
  • People flocked to his feet, coming from afar, enticed by the fragrant smell of his rupees. GYPSY MASALA
  • The new measures would effectively add some 4,050 million rupees to the fiscal deficit.
  • I made a loss but Bertra Muscle became a rupee millionaire.
  • If the tens of thousands of rupees donated each day are used for good works, then the charity is unadvertised. Times, Sunday Times
  • The price of jet fuel in Mumbai, home to India's busiest airport, will be raised by 2,422 rupees ($50.5) per kiloliter to 39,789 rupees/kiloliter. India Fuel Firms to Raise Jet Fuel Prices
  • I Moolah Surwar Khan Loohanee give this written receipt to the British Government that the amount of one lac six thousand sixty three rupees, fifteen annas, eight pies, have been received by me from Captain W.J. Eastwick official Political Agent on account of the hire of 3098 camels which are now proceeding to Khorasan. 90 Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • While traditional lamps sell at 50 paise a piece, aesthetically painted ones sell for a rupee each, they add.
  • At the entrance of the home, guests were received in the customary manner - a tilak on the forehead and a one-rupee coin in their palms.
  • What's more, foreign companies are allowed to participate in construction projects only if they agree to accept payment in nonconvertible rupees -- an obvious dealbreaker. India's Faulty Exceptionalism
  • The airport operator had earlier encashed bank guarantees worth one billion rupees on which Kingfisher had defaulted. Mumbai Airport Puts Kingfisher Airlines on Cash-and-Carry
  • The watchman looked at me expectantly so of course I had to say how nice it was and also donate five rupees.
  • As learned and experienced bargainers, thanks to months on the road, we calmly explained that we were students (and proletariats ourselves) and simply could not afford the 1000 rupees, which was true.
  • 4,000 women put in ten rupees each, which if my arithmetic is right adds up to 40,000 rupees.
  • Similar to India's rupee, the rufiyaa is the local currency now, but it was cowrie shells when explorers first arrived. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
  • The result was boosted by one-off gains attributed to business disposals worth 28 billion rupees. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Indian middle classes are fast being Americanised, with the mid-Atlantic masala twang and the mobile telephone washing through the ranks of the rupee zillionaires on a tidal wave.
  • At last bail was fixed at one thousand five hundred rupees. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • Crores of rupees change hands and children are forced to become slaves.
  • The share sale was hugely oversubscribed and at one point the shares were 27% higher than the issue price of 850 rupees.
  • The nurses, who picketed the hospital, want a monthly salary increase of 1,500 rupees.
  • Tata Motors was the biggest outperformer, gaining 4.5% to close at 188 rupees after Friday reporting strong September global sales numbers. Indian Shares End Down
  • One woman threw down a rupee and stooped to pick up change. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • However, now, the trio are absconding after cheating people of crores of rupees.
  • Suspended to the _hamel_ or necklace of rupees in front is a silver pendant in the shape of a betel-leaf, this leaf being very efficacious in magic; and on this is carved either the image of The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
  • The stronger euro against the ruble was the main driver for Metro's sales growth, but the weaker Turkish lira, Chinese yuan and Indian rupee also helped the company, a spokesman said. Poor Weather Hurts Metro's Sales
  • Gray served as Abd al-Rahman's personal surgeon and noted 12 annas composed a rupee and that there was no such coin as an anna in circulation. Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier
  • The number, therefore, of horse implied by it ought at least to be ascertained: _we will suppose five thousand_, and, allowing the exigency for their attendance to exist only in the proportion of _one year in five_, reduce the demand to one thousand for the computation of the subsidy, which, at the rate of _fifty rupees_ per man, will amount to fifty thousand _per mensem_. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
  • RANCHI - A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court Thursday convicted 48 people in a multi-million fodder scam case related to the fraudulent withdrawal of crores of Rupees from the Ranchi treasury on the basis of fake bills. of S. K Dubey pronounced the judgment in the RC 44 A/96 case which is related to fraudulent withdrawal of Rs. 8.60 crore from the Ranchi treasury. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • In comparison, Singapore charges 24,000 rupees per kiloliter, while in Dubai it is about 26,000 rupees per kiloliter. India to Form Ministers Panel for Jet Fuel Prices
  • This village of mud huts and no electricity was where they would stay as long as the trees produced coconuts for five rupees apiece in the wholesale market and Suhash kept shimmying up those trunks. BENEATH THE SHADE OF COCONUT TREES • by Rumjhum Biswas
  • Analysts say that this combination of factors, along with a general risk averseness among global investors, will continue to weigh down on the Indian rupee in the short-term. Rupee Falls Below 50 vs. U.S. Dollar
  • If you calculate the whole thing then this graft works out to thousands and lakhs of rupees.
  • So far this year, the Malaysian ringgit is up 7.5% against the dollar and the Korean won and Indian rupee are both up about 5%.
  • It is not difficult to raise a few crores of rupees in one year.
  • Now he is working in a restaurant earning 35,000 rupees a month and has moved out of the slum into a house of his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Road Transport Office in Mumbai officially charges 200 rupees for a permanent license and 30 rupees for a learner's permit valid for 30 days.
  • The Road Transport Office in Mumbai officially charges 200 rupees for a permanent license and 30 rupees for a learner's permit valid for 30 days.
  • Though he never parts with his pens I somehow managed to get my hands on one of his estimable pens for a rupee.
  • Now he is working in a restaurant earning 35,000 rupees a month and has moved out of the slum into a house of his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • The government passed prohibitory orders barring nearly 2,000 employees of Maruti's Manesar plant in Haryana from continuing with the strike--which has left the country's largest auto maker by sales with a daily production loss of 1,200 cars, or 400 million rupees $8.9 million--and referred the problem to the local labor court. Maruti Strikers Ordered Back to Work
  • He said the government would raise 1.25 trillion rupees in nontax revenue; 400 billion rupees of that will come from sales of stakes in state-owned enterprises such as Steel Authority of India and Indian Oil Corp. India and Brazil Introduce New Plans to Cut Spending, Shrink Deficits

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