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Tagore Nobel insurance claim too high?

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From: The Hindustan Times
Date: 20071128
Author:

Avijit Ghosal

Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 28 -- TRUST AN insurance company to haggle over a claim, even if the item in question is Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel medal. It's been more than three years since Rabindra Bhavan filed the claim, Rs 1.60 crore - Rs 1,59,72,000 to be exact - for what they consider is the "pride of the nation".

But they are still waiting because National Insurance Company (NIC) thinks it's too high. After rounds of deliberations and calculations, the amount quoted was Rs 80 lakh. Tagore won the Nobel for literature in 1913. His medallion, among other items of ...

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