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  2. List of countries by minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    3 Dec 2022 (conversion rate, 1 Sep 2023) India: Though stipulated by law, it varies from ₹160 (US$2.16) per day in Bihar, to ₹348/day (US$4.7) in Mumbai (2017), [106] to ₹750 (US$10) per day in Kerala. State governments set a separate minimum wage for agricultural workers. [10] The minimum wages are set according to Minimum Wages Act ...

  3. Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka, [b] historically known as Ceylon, [c] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean , southwest of the Bay of Bengal , separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait .

  4. Hambantota - Wikipedia

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    The Hambantota Wind Farm is the first wind farm in Sri Lanka (there are two more commercial wind farms). [21] It's a pilot project to test wind power generation in the island nation. [ 22 ] Wind energy development faces immense obstacles such as poor roads and an unstable power grid .

  5. Water - Wikipedia

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    Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H 2 O.It is a transparent, tasteless, odorless, [c] and nearly colorless chemical substance.It is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent [20]).

  6. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is also widely used in media and literature, and the number of English language books published annually in India is the third largest in the world after the US and UK. [126] However, English is rarely spoken as a first language, numbering only around a couple hundred-thousand people, and less than 5% of the population speak fluent ...

  7. Shoe size - Wikipedia

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    The typical range lies between 1 ⁄ 2 to 2 ⁄ 3 inch (12.7 to 16.9 mm) for the UK/US size system and 4 ⁄ 3 to 5 ⁄ 3 cm (13.3 to 16.7 mm) for the European size system, but may extend to 1 ⁄ 4 to 3 ⁄ 4 inch (6.4 to 19.1 mm) and 2 ⁄ 3 to 6 ⁄ 3 cm (6.7 to 20.0 mm).

  8. Legality of incest - Wikipedia

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    A prohibited degree of relationship would be that of a parent and their natural or adoptive child, a step-parent and their step-child, whether the step-child's parent and step-parent are married under the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11] or the Customary Marriages Act [Chapter 5:07], or are parties to an unregistered customary law marriage, and ...

  9. Hypoxia (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level. [1] Hypoxia may be classified as either generalized, affecting the whole body, or local, affecting a region of the body. [2]