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2007 South Asian floods

In North Bengal, the floods have caused economic damage also estimated in the millions of U.S. dollars (at least Rs. 500 million); and in Siliguri, flash floods have wiped away at least 100 houses on a single night (28 July 2007).

Attiya Inayatullah

On July 5, 2002, she gave a compensation cheque for 500,000 rupees (8,200 U.S. dollars) from the Government of Pakistan to gang-rape victim, Mukhtaran Mai.

Bangaru Thirumalai Nayak

Bangaru Tirumala approached Safdar Ali Khan, son of the Carnatic Nawab, with an offer of three million rupees to oust the queen in favour of him.

Casino Royale Goa

The World Gaming Festival will encompass individual tournaments for different Casino games like Blackjack, Roulette, Texas Hold'em Poker, Indian Flush and Baccarat and will feature some of the best players battling it out for the prize money worth Rupees 5 Crores.

Chanda Sahib

Then they came to an understanding with his son, the Safdar Ali Khan, recognised him as Nawab, in return, Khan accepted Maratha suzerainty and undertook to pay Marathas, an indemnity of 40 lakh rupees and a regular Chauth.

Delhi Golf Club

The Delhi Golf Club, has an area of 220 acres, the market value of which is estimated between Rupees 47000 crores and 60,000 crores or about USD 8 to 10 billion at Rs 60 to a dollar.

Fighter kite

Mainly centered in Lahore and Faisalabad, people spend thousands of Rupees in preparing different types of kites and threads best suited to battle.

Guru Ram Das

He founded it in 1574 on land he bought for 700 rupees from the owners of the village of Tung.

India 10 Rupees Mahatma Gandhi postage stamp

The 10 Rupees Postage stamp depicting Mahatma Gandhi issued by India in 1948 is one of India's most famous stamps.

India at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Shiva Keshavan received 450,000 rupees from five Indian lawyers to purchase a new luge for competition after his previous luge - held together by duct tape and screws - broke during training in November.

K. G. Balakrishnan

Balakrishnan's son-in-law and Indian Youth Congress leader P. V. Srinijan, who did not have any land four years ago, is now the owner of property worth hundreds of thousands of crores rupees.

K. Ramunni Menon

He first proposed in a letter to G. H. Hardy dated 28 July 1920 to pay Ramanujan's wife a monthly annuity of 20 rupees per month for handing over her husband's documents.

Maharashtra floods of 2005

A project costing approximately 600 crore rupees was proposed by UK based consultants hired by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to study the matter.

Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau

In 1753, a Paravana of Asif ad-Dawlah Mir Ali Salabat Jang, Subedar of Deccan conceded to Marquis de Bussy the paraganas of Chicacole, Ellore, Rajahmundry etc. with an annual revenue RS.2, 00,000 for the maintenance of the French troops in the Subah in recognition of the help of these Circars amounted up to 10 lakhs of Rupees per year.

Mubarak Begum

NDTV reported that she was earning a pension of Rupees 700 (about 12 USD) per month, while another Indian newspaper, DNA, while reporting on her financial condition said she was earning Rupees 3000 per month, both amounts being paltry by Indian standards.

Omani rial

Before 1940, the Indian rupee and the Maria Theresa Thaler (known locally as the rial) were the main currencies circulating in Muscat and Oman, as the state was then known, with rupees circulating on the coast and Thaler in the interior.

Pemmasani Timmanayudu

He ruled Gutthi (Gooty) and Gandikota regions and used to pay an annual tribute of nine lakh rupees to the Vijayanagar king.

Raikat

When Bhutan refused to offer compensation, on 6 September 1841, the British governor Auckland unilaterally ordered the occupation of Assam Duar, paying 10,000 rupees annually to Bhutan, in compensation.

Sadiq Public School

In order to accomplish this project, the Ameer of Bahawalpur State, Ala Hazrat Nawab Sir Sadeq Mohammad Khan V allocated a sum of rupees one million and nine hundred thousand for the construction of the buildings.

Saran division

Hathwa Raj was a zamindari in the Saran Division of Bihar belonging to Bhumihar Brahmins which encompassed 1,365 villages, was inhabited by more than 391,000 people, and produced an annual rental of almost a million rupees.

Sardar Muhammad Arif Nakai

In 1810, Maharaja Ranjit Singh granted Kahn Singh a jagir of 15,000 rupees per annum and seized all the possessions of the family.

Siege of Delhi, 1757

Instead of paying the promised tribute of 5 lakh rupees to Marathas, Najib once again started building an army to take back control of his lost territory in the Meerat region which had been captured by Marathas.

St George's Forane Church, Kulathuvayal

Utilizing the 6000 Rupees he contributed, a new car was bought from Coimbatore by late Prof. K. M. Chandy (former Gujarat Governor) and the bishop was taken to Kulathuvayal in that along the new road.

The 65 Lakh Heist

Vimal is blackmailed into joining a conspiracy to break into the vault of Bharat Bank at Amritsar to loot 6.5 million rupees (65 lakh) inside it.

Thedi Vandha Lakshmi

Lakshmi’s (Lakshmi) brother Rathnam is murdered and cops interrogate her about 20 Lakh Rupees which the murdered man has looted.

Treaty of Allahabad

The Nawab of Awadh also had to pay fifty-three lakhs of rupees as war indemnity to the East India Company.

Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham

Following the success of S. S. Rajamouli's 2010 Telugu film Maryada Ramanna, the rights for the film to be remade into Tamil were sold to Prasad V Potluri for 35 lakh rupees.


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