In the year to March 2008 India post handled 6 billion pieces of ordinary post, down from over 15 billion at the start of the decade.

截至2008年三月，印度邮政处理的普通邮件比十年前的150多亿下降到了60亿封。

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Between 1405 and 1433, Zheng and his men beat their way down through all of South-East Asia, to both coasts of India and finally to Africa's eastern coast, at least as far as Ethiopia.

从1405年到1433年，郑和带领着他的部下，穿越了整个东南亚，经过印度海岸，并最终到达非洲东部海岸，甚至去到比埃塞俄比亚更为遥远的地方。

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Small fish rained down on a village in southern India. A scientist said they were probably picked up by a waterspout or mini-tornado out at sea.

印度南部小村庄突然下起“小鱼”雨。科学家说它们很可能是被龙卷风从海上卷来的。

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At the start of this topsy-turvy F1 season, Fisichella was widely perceived to be wanly winding down his career at Force India, who were not expected to renew his contract for 2010.

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That left India 277-6 at lunch and staring down the barrel of an ignominious defeat, before captain Dhoni joined Tendulkar at the crease and set about sparing some of his team's blushes.

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Elsewhere in the region India's Sensex was down 0.1% at 19460.57, the Philippines' PSE Composite was nearly flat at 6458.01, Indonesia's JSX advanced 0.3% to 4503.25 and Thailand's SET index fell 0.6% to 1489.11.

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