Tag: India

• Wednesday, August 29th 2012 - 03:07 UTC

  US government sales soared to 66.3bn dollars in 2011; Saudis main buyers

  

  US government sale of weapons soared by over three times in just one year - from 21.4 billion dollars in 2010 to 66.3 billion in 2011, the largest for a single year in the history of the US arms export program, according to a report by the US Congress Research Service.

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 06:34 UTC

  India’s two power outage incidents in two days punished almost a billion people

  

  New Delhi’s Metro shut down and hundreds of coal miners were trapped underground after three Indian electric grids collapsed in a cascade on Tuesday cutting power to 620 million people in the world’s biggest blackout.

• Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 19:02 UTC

  Pranab Mukherjee, a political “bridge builder” elected president of India

  

  Former Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee was elected president on Sunday of the world’s largest democracy and a crucial member of the emerging markets BRIS group.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:21 UTC

  Argentina blasts WTO for its biased and tendentious reports on world trade

  

  The Argentine government, together with Brazil, India and South Africa questioned the inclination, almost bias, of some trade measures elaborated by the World Trade Organization Director General.

• Thursday, June 14th 2012 - 11:19 UTC

  Indian delegation after investments and technology cooperation with Brazil

  

  India has invited companies from Brazil to invest in the country’s national infrastructure, manufacturing in Special Economic Zones and the food processing sector.

• Tuesday, June 12th 2012 - 19:42 UTC

  The Pacific Alliance, yet another bloc in Latin America

  

  The newly-formed Pacific Alliance bloc seems more like a political club to counterbalance the Atlantic-facing, Brazil-led Mercosur group. However, the bloc accounts for 30% of India’s trade with Latin America. Can India engage the group so it is not left out from their Asia focus?

• Monday, June 11th 2012 - 05:34 UTC

  Major Indian steel company readies plans to scrap huge mining project in Bolivia

  

  India's Jindal Steel & Power said on Saturday it was making plans to scrap a 2.1 billion dollars steel project in Bolivia, saying the Bolivian government had not met contract terms that include supply of natural gas for the project.

• Friday, June 1st 2012 - 06:52 UTC

  Paraguayan president returns after a two-week controversial tour of Asia

  

  Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo returns home this week after a two-week” tour of Asia where he went in search of new markets for Paraguay’s two largest exports, beef and soy.

• Thursday, May 31st 2012 - 18:33 UTC

  Indian school boy solves 350-year old mathematical problem set out by Newton

  

  An Indian school boy from Calcutta and currently in Germany, Shouryya Ray, has shocked everyone by solving a 350-year-old mathematical problem which was set by one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians, Sir Isaac Newton.

• Sunday, May 27th 2012 - 03:01 UTC

  Argentine youth takes to Indian culture from Sanskrit songs to mediation and spiritualism

  

  By R.Viswanathan - I had the most unusual night club experience in Argentina last weekend when I was in “Groove” one of the trendiest night clubs of Buenos Aires. The DJ was not playing Salsa, Samba or Reggaton. Instead, the club was vibrating with Sanskrit songs...