Some news i find interesting

...related to my indian experience

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Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India's thirteenth president and the first woman to occupy the post.

India Names Its First Female President

Indian lawmakers have selected the nation's first female president in a vote seen as a symbolic victory for women contending with widespread discrimination, election officials said Saturday. 1, 2.

Tata Air Car - zero pollution and very low running costs

Tata, India's largest private company, funds half the activists in India

Indian environmental campaigner accepted a million dollar award from a multinational metal maker, Alcan, which has been accused of grabbing tribal land in eastern India. The tentacles of big business have learned to embrace NGOs. The result, she claims, is that the charitable trusts of Tata, India's largest private company, fund "half the activists in the country". Guardian article

Dinu Debeljuhu nagrada indijskog Instituta za marketing i menadžment

NEW DELHI - »Top Diplomat Award« nagrada je koju je hrvatski veleposlanik u Indiji Dino Debeljuh dobio od tamošnjeg Instituta za marketing i menadžment u sklopu prošlotjednog 34. svjetskog kongresa marketinga održanog u New Delhiju. U Ministarstvu vanjskih poslova RH ističu da je naše veleposlanstvo u proteklom razdoblju uspostavilo dobru suradnju sa spomenutom indijskom obrazovnom institucijom, pa je Debeljuh lani u IMM-u održao i predavanje o poslovnim mogućnostima u Hrvatskoj.

Prilikom uručivanja priznanja i čestitanja veleposlaniku Debeljuhu, ministar informiranja i parlamentarnih poslova Shri Priyaranjan Dasmunsi, koji je i poznati sportski djelatnik Indije, spomenuo je Bobana kojeg zna kao vrsnog nogometaša.

G. P.

Tata Steel agrees to buy Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus in the largest ever Indian takeover of a foreign company.

Pakistan 'hand' in Mumbai bombs

Mumbai death toll tops 200

At least 200 people were killed in the bombings that ripped through packed commuter trains in Mumbai, a senior official said today.

Pink Floyd's Barrett dies aged 60

The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathula

Chavez hosts anti-US 6-nation trade summit

CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez marked Venezuela's entry into the South American trade bloc Mercosur with a six-nation summit on Tuesday, an alliance that he says should be a common front against American free trade deals.

• http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1709002.cms

China building largest wind power plant (200 megawatt)

The plant in Dongtai city, north of Shanghai, will produce enough electricity for 400,000 homes, it said.

• http://www.physorg.com/news71212297.html

Warren E. Buffet to give away 85% of his $44 billion wealth to Gates' charity

The U.S. population is on target to hit 300 million this fall

...and it's a good bet the milestone baby - or immigrant - will be Hispanic.

Beirut emerges as Arab world's sin city

Microsoft to face EU action over antitrust breach

Bird flu mutation confirmed by WHO - human-to-human transmission lead to death

Indonesian man who died of bird flu virus caught it from his 10-year-old son as the H5N1? virus mutated slightly in the family cluste, according to a WHO investigation. It is the first laboratory-confirmed case of human-to-human transmission of the disease.

Govt pitches for open data software

Not just phones, US taps bank data too

We are a rude people