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Closed market in Mumbai on December 1, 2011. Shopkeepers and traders in India went on a one-day strike December 1 as the main opposition party stepped up protests against plans to open the country's retail sector to foreign chains. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government has been faced with widespread fury over its decision last week to allow supermarket giants such as Wal-Mart to own 51-percent of large "multi-brand" stores. Photo by Sachin Halde/Indian Photo Agency