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  India national football team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
India qualified by default for the 1950 FIFA World Cup as a result of the withdrawal of all of their scheduled opponents.
India won their first major trophy outside the sub-continent when they clinched the LG Cup in Vietnam in 2002 under English coach Stephen Constantine.
India is a soccer powerhouse in the SAFF region.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/India_national_football_team   (599 words)

  
 India's Nuclear Testing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Until the detonation of three nuclear tests on 11 May 1998 and the two on 13th May India has previously conducted one underground nuclear test of 12 kilotonnes at Pokhran in the Rajasthan desert in 1974 (at the time this was very much seen as a response to China's first test in 1964).
India is estimated to have a plutonium production capability of around 75-200 kg per year which is 5-10 times more than required for its nuclear power and nuclear research programme.
India leased a Soviet "Charlie" class submarine in 1988 and by 1992 had their own submarine project under development based on the Soviet design but using an Indian pressurised water reactor.
archive.greenpeace.org /nuclear/testing/indiacap.html   (412 words)

  
 Why India? - Indians Against Christian Aggression
One of the lost tribes settled in India, and since then the Jews have built synagogues all over the country and are practicing their religion in total freedom.
However, in India, a vast nation with over a billion people, it is difficult to track Missionaries, especially in the rural environments where they usually operate.
India is a poor nation — Missionaries operate in India under the guise of “charity” efforts when in fact they are simply “buying” converts through gifts and material items.
personal.cfw.com /~userper/religion/why_india.htm   (559 words)

  
 India: Asia's Other Superpower Breaks Out - Newsweek: World News - MSNBC.com
India is home to 40 percent of the world's poor and has the world's second largest HIV population.
India does not have Beijing and Shanghai's gleaming infrastructure, and it does not have a government that rolls out the red carpet for foreign investment—no government in democratic India would have those kinds of powers anyway.
But a world in which India is a great power, in which it moves confidently across the global stage, and in which it is a friend and partner of the most powerful country in history—that is an altogether new and unsettling proposition.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/11571348/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098   (3931 words)

  
 Affirmative Disintegration: India's Most Dangerous Decade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
India's jungle of red tape is said to be one of the largest and most complex in the world.
India's 1950 Constitution enshrined the concept of restitution for the "untouchable" castes by allowing the state to "make special provisions for the advancement of any socially and educationally backward classes" and to make "any provision for the reservation of appointments or posts" in favor of such backward classes in the services under the state.
Some 1,765 different groups in India's complex and locally variegated caste system, comprising about 17.5 percent (increased to 22.5 percent in 1970) of the population, were classified as "Scheduled Castes" and "Scheduled Tribes." Quotas in central government employment, legislative representation, education, and numerous other areas were provided by statute.
www.libertyhaven.com /countriesandregions/india/disintegration.html   (1386 words)

  
 Indiachildren - History of India (1947 - 1960)
As the Pakistan army was involved in the invasion of Kashmir, India lodged a complaint with the United Nations in 1948, which called for an immediate cease-fire.
India became a sovereign, democratic republic, according to the constitution.
The cornerstone of India's foreign policy laid down by Jawaharlal Nehru was the doctrine embodied in the Five Principles called Panchshila.
www.indiachildren.com /lifestyles/history/1947-60.htm   (915 words)

  
 The Green Revolution in India.
India in 55 years has emerged from famine ridden colonial times, as a famine free Republic.
India was a massive importer, the tonnage peaking at 10 million in 1966.
India had shaken off her colonial hang-over and defied the mould assigned for her.
www.goodnewsindia.com /Pages/content/milestones/greenRev.html   (1698 words)

  
 1960 in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: 1959 in India, other events of 1960, 1961 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.
Air India enters USA with flights to New York.
This page was last modified 22:17, 19 April 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1960_in_India   (67 words)

  
 2003 India Special Weapons News Reports
India`s Assam to raise people`s army to combat insurgency IRNA 10 Nov 2003 -- The government in India`s northeastern state of Assam Monday decided to raise a people`s army by providing villagers with weapons to combat separatist insurgency in the region, officials said.
India not in arms race: Vajpayee IRNA 13 Oct 2003 -- Asserting that India`s military preparedness was purely for self-defense, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee charged Pakistan with acquiring weapons while accusing New Delhi of triggering an arms race in the sub-continent, local press reported here on Monday.
India is still reeling from the shock of the massive explosion that shook the country's commercial capital.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/india/2003   (10591 words)

  
 Kishanganga dam — another set of failed water talks -DAWN - Business; December 5, 2005
India estimates that annual water flow in the western rivers namely the Indus, the Jhelum and the Chenab stands at 135.6 MAF.
India says that he was only diverting Neelam to join the Jhelum at Bandipur near Wullar lake rather than in Muzaffarabad, and is of the view that the water would ultimately reach Pakistan through the river Jhelum, though not in the shape of the river Neelam.
India can only interfere with the flow of the western rivers for domestic, non-consumptive, (navigation, flood control, fishing and wildlife), agricultural and the generation of hydroelectric power with out any storage works.
www.dawn.com /2005/12/05/ebr18.htm   (1128 words)

  
 INDOlink - India Business News - India, Pak Reaffirm Commitment To 1960 Indus Water Treaty
Islamabad, July 30 (NNN): Even as the two sides reaffirmed their commitment to the Indus Basin Treaty signed in 1960 on the distribution of water between the two countries, officials from India and Pakistan on Friday agreed to continue talks on the controversial dam being built on river Jhelum in Jammu and Kashmir.
He said that relationship with India is of great importance for Pakistan and vital for peace and harmony in the region.
It is worth mentioning here that India is constructing Baglihar project on Chenab River and plans to construct Wullar Barrage at Jehlum despite the fact that under the 1960 Indus Basin Treaty, the waters of the eastern rivers Ravi, Sutlej and Beas were allocated to India and western rivers Jhelum, Chenab and Indus to Pakistan.
www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=073004013905   (1114 words)

  
 VNN World - Cruelty Against The Cows In India
Earlier this month, India's commerce and industry ministry said the state's governments had been urged to set-up panels to enforce the Prevention of Cruelties to Animal Act in 1960.
India's action followed protest from activist, included ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, and campaigns PETA which said it had persuaded five big global retailers to stop using leather from India.
PETA, which estimates that around 13 million cows are slaughtered in India every year for beef and hide, say that the animal faced cruel treatment in the country despite their sacred status in Hinduism.
www.vnn.org /world/WD0106/WD27-6811.html   (335 words)

  
 US - India Defense & Strategic Affairs
India is the second biggest buyer of Russian weapons after China, accounting for nearly 40 percent of Moscow’s overall arms exports, which hit a record $5.12 billion last year.
He also said that by ensuring India's nuclear programme enjoys the same benefits and is bound by the same obligations as other powers in the non-proliferation regime, the US is invoking one of its top national security priorities: the prevention of nuclear commerce between India and a rogue state or non-state actor.
India was said to have been close to sealing the deal with IAI in 2004, but it was postponed due to the change in governments in New Delhi.
indiadefense.blogspot.com /2005_11_01_indiadefense_archive.html   (12568 words)

  
 Bhutan - India
The key document guiding relations with India is the Treaty of Friendship Between the Government of India and the Government of Bhutan of 1949.
In 1960 the Druk Gyalpo had said that Bhutan was not 100 percent independent because of the 1949 treaty, and until Bhutan emerged into the world of international diplomacy by joining the UN in 1971, Article 2 of the treaty seemed intact.
Bhutan had raised its representation in India to the ambassadorial level in 1971 and in 1978 changed the name of its diplomatic office in New Delhi from the Royal Bhutan Mission to the Royal Bhutan Embassy to further reflect its sovereign status.
countrystudies.us /bhutan/50.htm   (774 words)

  
 rediff.com: cricket channel - It Happened This Week On This Day
India vs Australia in Test, at Corporation Stadium, Result: Australia beat India by an innings and 55 Runs.
India vs England in Test, at M.A Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Result: England beat India by 9 Wickets.
India vs England in ODI, at Swami Mansingh Stadium, Result: England beat India by 4 Wickets.
www.rediff.com /cricket/2002/jan/13tdtw.htm   (1522 words)

  
 India - Pakistan: 1960-61 Test Series - Sify.com
Hanif's 160 is the highest innings by a Pakistani in India and when he reached 63, he became the first to score 2000 runs for his country.
The partnership of 88 between Mushtaq Ahmed and Inthikhab Alam was Pakistan's highest for the seventh wicket against India until 1984-85.
India and Pakistan achieved their twelfth successive draw in their last match for more than 17 years.
sify.com /sports/cricket/fullstory.php?id=13391940   (446 words)

  
 Passages to India - New York Times
She was in Delhi, as she wrote, only because her husband was there, and she was interested not in India but in herself in India.
She was probably the first writer in English to see that India's Westernizing middle class, so preoccupied with marriage, lent itself well to Jane Austenish comedies of manners.
Jhabvala, who spent much of the 1960's in India, was also well placed to observe European and American seekers who sought to escape the bourgeois materialism of the West and often encountered in India the tackier materialism of the East.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F03E2DE123BF93BA25754C0A9629C8B63   (600 words)

  
 Pakistan in India : Dec 1960/Feb 1961 (5 TESTS)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Central Zone v Pakistanis at Nagpur, 9-11 Dec 1960
East Zone v Pakistanis at Jamshedpur, 25-27 Dec 1960
India Board President XI v Pakistanis at Bangalore, 7-9 Jan 1961
www.cricinfo.com /db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1960-61/PAK_IN_IND   (207 words)

  
 India-China Trade Relations
During the Kargil war, the Chinese stance was a tacit acceptance of the LOC in Jammu and Kashmir as the international border.
An IFS luminary who was liaison officer to Zhou Enlai during that Chinese Premier's ill-fated visit to New Delhi in April 1960 bemoans that India blew a great opportunity of settling the border question at a time when the Chinese were also keen to close the issue.
While the two countries keep meeting to resolve the boundary question on the basis of landmark agreements signed in 1993 and 1996 and while the economic relationship expands, new scholarship keeps emerging to give contemporary meaning to Wen Jiabao's statement.
www.asiasource.org /trade/two.cfm   (1074 words)

  
 Iran to India Natural Gas Pipeline
India's attempt to facilitate the domestic LNG industry is only one in the country's many attempts to limit foreign ownership and competition.
For India, a $6 million Greenhouse Gas program was suspended along with $21 million in economic development assistance and housing guarantee authority (United States Department of State).
India also signed an agreement with Oman in 1994 to import 56.6 mmscmd of natural gas in the time span of ten years (Ibid).
www.american.edu /TED/iranpipeline.htm   (10694 words)

  
 Why India? - Christian Aggression
India is a tolerant nation – In no country in the world is religious freedom available to people as it is in India.
Instead of peaceful co-existing with other religions as millions in India already do, they attempt to decimate all other religions through by conversion.
For example, Revered Joseph Cooper of the United States carried out missionary activities for 11 years before he was expelled after being an accomplice to Pastor Sam Benson in the raping a 12 year old Hindu girl.
www.christianaggression.org /about_why_india.php   (679 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
The PCIW has come on a four-day inspection of the Baglihar hydro-electric project which is under construction in Jammu and Kashmir.
Mr Shah denied that Pakistan had been diverting the course of the Ravi and the Sutlej rivers to the Indian side as alleged by India.
A huge chunk of land in Amritsar (near Ranike-Kakkar border) and Ferozepore was being eroded due to the diversion of the rivers by Pakistan, especially during the rainy days every year.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031020/main5.htm   (385 words)

  
 Cinema India
Divided into eight thematic or chronological sections, Cinema India is easily accessible to an audience unfamiliar with the subject matter featured.
After India agreed independence from British rule in 1947, the country was caught between the need to modernise and the need to maintain traditional moral values.
Mother India was the most important film of this time.
www.leicester.gov.uk /cinemaindia/exhib.htm   (602 words)

  
 Class of 1960 - Woodstock School, India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
This is a place to connect with classmates and friends from Woodstock, vintage 1960.
If you never belonged to our class, and you are just curious about Woodstock, you will find much more information on our alumni site (in the U.S.), or on the Woodstock site (in India).
If you are a prospective student at Woodstock (or a parent), you should look at the SAGE site.
www.math.niu.edu /~beachy/woodstock   (244 words)

  
 Finnish India Relations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Diplomatic relations between India and Finland were established on October 1, 1949.
During the visit, a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, and a Cultural Exchange Agreement between India and Finland, are signed.
An agreement on technical assistance to India by Finland is signed.
www.finland.org.in /finnish_india_relations.htm   (252 words)

  
 Madras India 1960   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Oil & Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) of India opened their stall during the Madras Chamber of Commerce's industrial exhibition in Madras, India, in 1960.
Satish K. Srivastava was assigned by ONGC as a geology advisor for that stall during that exhibition.
Here Satish K. Srivastava (left) with a botanist of the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) in front of the neighboring BSI stall.
www.palynology.org /history/srivastavapic5.html   (63 words)

  
 Country References for India
Datar, M.K. (1987), "Some Aspects of Interest Rate Policy in India" in Brahmananda and Panchmuki (eds.) The Developing Porcess of the Indian Economy, New Delhi: Himalaya Publishing House.
Iqubal, Farukh (1988), "The Determinants of Money Lender Interest Rates: Evidence from Rural India" The Journal of Development Studies, Volume 24, Number 3, April, pp.
Srinivas, Hari (1991), Viability of Informal Credit to Finance Low-income Housing: A Case Study of Three Squatter Settlements in Bangalore City, India.
www.gdrc.org /icm/country/ref-india.html   (788 words)

  
 Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
Regional Convergence and Catch-up in India between 1960 and 1992
This paper examines the evidence for regional convergence or catch-up in levels and growth rates of per capita income among the 16 major states in India between 1960 and 1992.
The results - estimated using OLS, the within-group LSDV estimator, Re-Weighted Least Squares, and Least Trimmed Squares - establish that unconditional convergence in growth rates does not obtain, but that there is clear and robust evidence of conditional convergence.
ideas.repec.org /p/nuf/econwp/0301.html   (667 words)

  
 The West India Regiment
The 1959-62 regiment inherited all the battle honours of its predecessors.
Note: Until presented with its own Colours in 1960, The West India Regiment of 1959-62 carried the Colours of the predecessor Jamaica Regiment.
Uniforms of the West India Regiment, by Frank Goodwill
www.regiments.org /regiments/westindies/regts/wi-wir.htm   (217 words)

  
 Dolls India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Acquired September 2001 Marks: tag "Hand made India.
Rs P...previous own placed a 3.95 price on the back of the tag.
Religious Dolls India: Commercial site, dolls about $180.00
members.tripod.com /~atlantaga10/dollsindia.html   (169 words)

  
 Manufacturer of Auto Connecting Rods in India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Power Industries is an ISO 9001 company, manufacturer and exporter of I-Beam/H-Beam/Scat-Beam Connecting Rods and Crankshaft of all type of
Industrial,Automobile and Tractor Engines as per drawing/sample since 1960 in India
Within its 40 years journey through the way of progress POWER Ind. has grown up as a veteran in Connecting rods.
www.powerconrod.com /about.htm   (176 words)

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