M_B_S wrote:Do you realy think india will slow down iran oil imports?
prajeshbhat wrote:It's a mistake to make an enemy out the world's third largest oil exporter.
Rights Groups call out Sorbonne on UAE trial
Reuters / October 15, 2011
The UAE is a close US ally in the Middle East and the world’s number three oil exporter.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19060279
A massive power breakdown has hit India for a second day running, leaving more than half the country without power.
Officials said the northern and eastern grids had both collapsed. All Delhi metro services have been halted and staff are trying to evacuate trains.
Monday's power failure caused severe disruption and travel chaos across northern India.
It was unclear why the grid collapsed but reports said some states may have been using more power than authorised.
Power officials managed to restore the northern grid by Monday evening, but at 01:05pm (0735 GMT) on Tuesday, the grid collapsed again.
The eastern grid failed around the same time, officials said.
"Both the northern and eastern grids have collapsed. Please allow us to address the problem," AFP news agency quoted VK Agrawal, the general manager of the northern grid, as saying.
The two grids together serve more than half of India's 1.2bn people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18251065
Nearly a decade ago India had set an ambitious goal - electricity for all by 2012.
It has remained a pipe dream and instead the power sector is in crisis.
India is the fifth largest producer of power in the world but per head it's among the world's lowest.
GASMON wrote:
Yes, electricity supply in Thailand is very much like in India - cables, both insulated & uninsulated hanging everywhere & bloody dangerous.
Gas
India, facing its second drought in just four years, took steps to cut irrigation costs and increase fodder supplies for livestock farmers but held off from imposing any curb on exports of agricultural products or a ban of futures trading in them.
India's June-September monsoon rains, the main source of irrigation for 55 percent of its farmlands, are so far 19 percent below average. This has triggered fears of lower output and higher food inflation in one of the world's largest consumers and producers of grain.
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said the government would halve the cost of diesel - used to power water pumps on farms - in areas where rains have been 50 percent below average up to July 15. The subsidy will continue until the end of the season.
He was speaking after chairing a ministerial meeting on drought, as power cuts - blamed in part on high demand for farm irrigation - paralysed north India for a second day running and New Delhi bathed in its first serious rainfall of the monsoon.
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