The tourists, perhaps surprising India by ending their innings a little earlier than expected, then nipped out two big wickets before lunch.
His decision, in 2005, to press for international acceptance of India's civil nuclear programme, ending a ban on foreign assistance imposed because of India's refusal to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, was meant to usher in a new era of co-operation and trust.
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India's auto industry has grown an average of 12% for the past decade, but just 1.3 million passenger vehicles were sold in India in the fiscal year ending March 2006.
And in the three years ending in April, India's stockmarket had outperformed the overall emerging-market index by 45%.
With growth that could well hit 8% in the fiscal year ending next month, India at last looks to be on the brink of achieving what so many other countries in Asia have managed.
The data would boost hopes that India's economic slowdown is ending, although it would still take time before a meaningful recovery sets in, and this would maintain pressure on the government to speed up economic reforms and on the central bank to ease monetary policy to stimulate growth.
Car sales in India have remained weak in the current fiscal year ending this month due to higher ownership costs and an economic slowdown.
It is equally distressed at the Obama administration's refusal to make ending Pakistan's support for jihadist terror groups attacking India a central component of its strategy for contending with Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The UK's high commissioner in India has met Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, ending a 10-year boycott of the controversial leader.
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India projected that its economic growth would be 5% in the year ending March 31, the weakest in a decade, dealing a setback to hopes that the nation would be a driver of global recovery.
India's budget gap stands at 5.2% of gross domestic product this fiscal year ending on March 31, slightly lower than the 5.3% projected earlier by the finance ministry.
India's statistics ministry estimated Thursday that gross domestic product would grow 5% in the year ending March 31, weaker than the previous year's growth of 6.2% and sharply down from the 9%-plus growth rate recorded in early 2011.
India's GDP is forecast to grow by a more modest 5.8% in this fiscal year (ending March 2010).
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