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Reliance, L&T-led consortia in race for B'lore Metro project

Five consortia led by Reliance Infrastructure, L&T, ITD Cementation India, Pioneer Infratech and Lanco Infratech have been shortlisted for the $2-billion (Rs 9,270 crore) High Speed Rail Link (HSRL) in Bangalore.

ADRs gain $11 bn in September

Indian stocks trading on American bourses gained about $11 billion in one month, with IT bellwether Infosys and private sector lender HDFC Bank accounting almost half of the gains. For the month ended September 30, Indian entities listed on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq added $10.61 billion to their market-cap, with Infosys and HDFC Bank together contributing $5.82 billion.

V V: JM Coetzee - The story of himself

All fiction has its autobiographical roots, but Evelyn Waugh puts it as “experience totally transformed”. The autobiographical impulse is particularly strong in JM Coetzee, the South African Nobel Prize winner (2003), but his writings lie at the frontier between life and the freedoms of fiction. Summertime (Harvill Secker, special Indian price Rs 799), the final volume of a trilogy — the other two being Boyhood and Youth — is subtitled Scenes from a Provincial Life, charts the border territory with multiple skills of a biographer and fiction writer so that it can pretty well mean what you would want it to be.