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The Sensex is up 70.31 points or 0.38 percent at 18690.03, and the Nifty is up 8.45 points at 5480.25. About 236 shares have advanced, 66 shares declined, and 24 shares are unchanged.

Nine mega-projects in the mineral-rich Chhota Nagpur plateau, which could add substantially to India's metal output and create a large number of jobs, are stuck over messy issues related to land acquisition, rehabilitation of displaced people, mining rights and plain politics. The statistics on...