by Tyler Durden
While The Brits are about to tax their Super-Rich, it appears one of the old colonies remains in full anti-Robin-Hood mode. Nothing surprises us much anymore but this note from Bloomberg too the proverbial biscuit.
Tag Archives: India
India, the electricity comes back ‘. Accused 4 States
All have been repaired electrical systems broke down yesterday and finished the day before yesterday have caused a massive blackout in North India. This was announced today an official of the national electricity company.
Gigantic black out, kneeling India
NEW DELHI – New Delhi like New York in August 2003. A massive blackout affected the night in northern India, including the capital, leaving the dark and in the heat at least 300 million people.
China, India need water accord
By Geoff Hiscock
China and India need to reach agreement on how they will manage water from one of the world’s great rivers — the Yarlung-Zangbo-Brahmaputra — before it becomes another serious impediment to relations between the two Asian heavyweights.
Genetically modified India, genetically modified Us
By Gokul Chandrasekar
The debate over regulating genetically modified crops in India is back after two years of silence that followed the moratorium on the Bt brinjal, a genetically modified eggplant.
India: Italians murders are free
According to expert opinion on guns seized aboard the Enrica Lexie, showing that two of them have left the bullets that killed two Indian fishermen on February 15. The content of the report of the Scientific Laboratory of the police begin, in fact, to filter media. “The experts – Xinhua Printing Pts – worked on eight rifles by identifying the two parties from which the fatal bullets.”
Bridging India’s identity divide with a number
On a boiling afternoon in the city of Surat in Gujarat state, men and women are rolling into a cavernous hall in the local municipality building…
A challenge to the Indian judicial system
NEW DELHI - The Indian Supreme Court today denied the conciliation agreements signed in the High Court of Kerala by the families of the two fishermen were killed and the owner of the vessel involved in the incident of 15th February. The question was raised during consideration of the action on the release of the tanker E.Lexie. A judge said that the compromise ”must be reversed” because it is against Indian law.
‘Weapons of peace’ by India
The new intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-V in India – which means “fire” in India – was successfully launched from Wheeler Island. This new missile is capable of carrying nuclear warheads and potentially can affect China, Russia and parts of Eastern Europe.
Today’s was only the first test and additional test launches to be performed, but already now India is satisfied with the experiment. According to news agency Press Trust of India, Defence Minister AK Antony said: “The nation walks with his head high today.”
The launch occurred at 8:07 local time (4:07 in Italy) at Wheeler Island – off the east coast of India – and, oddly, the experiment in India has not attracted the same sensation at an international level instead procured by North Korea’s satellite launch, although it is a solid fuel missile with three stages, 17.5 meters high, weighing 50 tons and its designed to carry a nuclear warhead with a radius of 1.5 tons of ‘ Action of 5000 km, making it potentially dangerous for China, Russia and parts of Eastern Europe.
