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Gold prices dropped at the bullion market here today on heavy offerings by stockists triggered by bearish trend in overseas market. Silver also declined due to lack of demand from industrials users. Standard gold (99.5 purity) slipped by Rs 180 per ten grams to end at Rs 18,545 from overnight...

They are everywhere in this metropolis - at traffic signals, peering into taxi windows, bedraggled, haggard and breaking into a sudden smile when a few coins are dropped into their palms. And it is these coins, given perhaps out of exasperation or a momentary flash of pity that add up to...