India and South Africa share a special relationship
No other country in the world shares the special relationship that exists between India and South Africa, Minister for Commerce and Industry Anand Sharma has said. “I would like to find another parallel. I have honestly tried to but I don’t find one,” Mr. Sharma said during a dinner here last evening at the start of the four-day ‘India Show’ that will see a host of business and cultural events across the city.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article603572.ece
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India's Tata backs air-power car
An engineer has promised that within a year he will start selling a car in India that runs on compressed air, producing no emissions at all in towns. The OneCAT will be a five-seater with a glass fibre body, weighing just 350kg and could cost just over £2,500. The project is being backed by the Indian conglomerate, Tata for an undisclosed sum. It says the technology may also be used for power generation...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7243247.stm
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Banished from Delhi for Commonwealth Games
There is a grand plan to clean up the Indian capital for the Commonwealth Games - but it includes a very long list of who is to be banished from Delhi...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10696792
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Taking a shine to New Delhi
I am one of many thousands of victims of Delhi’s most imaginative tourist scam – even though I've lived in the city for many years and really should have known better. I have now been outsmarted four times by the phantom shit squirter of Connaught Place, and my memories of each occasion make me feel a little foolish.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/jul/18/delhi-city-ruins
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