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A sluggish manufacturing sector pulled down the economic growth to 8.9 per cent during the July-September quarter from 10.2 per cent in the comparable period last year despite a good showing by the agriculture and mining sectors. Consequently the growth during the first half of 2007-08 came...

Indian economy registered this decade's highest first quarter growth during the current financial year at 8.9 per cent on impressive showing by manufacturing and services sectors. "This is the highest first quarter growth since 2000-01," an exuberant Finance Minister P Chidambaram told...