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$1.3 billion estimated cost of delays to projects due to Amitabh Bachchan’s illness
$1 billion New York retailers lost due to three day transit strike
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$113 billion sales of Saudi Arabian Oil, the largest company in the Muslim world
$3.26 billion revenue of Pakistan State Oil, the largest Pak company
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$725.8 billion USA’s 2005 trade deficit
$47.4 billion India’s trade deficit in Jan-Sept. 2005
$9.4 billion Pakistan’s 2005 trade deficit
$2.1 billion Sri Lanka’s trade deficit in Jan-Oct 2005
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$12.37 trillion the estimated GDP of the USA
$3.68 trillion India’s estimated GDP
$385.2 billion the estimated GDP of Pakistan
$86.7 billion Sri Lanka’s estimated GDP
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$21.7 billion remittances to India in 2005
$21.3 billion remittances to China in 2005
$4.3 billion estimated 2005 remittances to Pakistan
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2nd Muttiah Muralitharan became second Sri Lankan to play in over 100 test matches
1st Time Sri Lanka played a test macth in Bangladesh in Chittagong in Feb 2005
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| Source: AP; New York City Mayor’s office; CIA Factbook; RBI; State Bank of Pakistan; Central Bank of Sri Lanka; Dinar Standard; BBC; World Bank |
