[peeker01]

Once again, 1994.

[dohboi]

whatever

[peeker01]

http://english.emory.edu/Bahri/Part.html

[M_B_S]

http://www.indiabiznews.com/?q=node/1766




Do you realy think india will slow down iran oil imports?


India Oil Ministry Official: Haven't Told Refiners To Cut Iran Crude Purchases For Next Fiscal Year
Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/02 ... z1n2OEyNpi


India had said it will continue importing crude from Iran as it abides by sanctions only of Untied Nations and doesn't accept those by any individual country or bloc.
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Haha Europe shot in his own feed. India wants to buy every barrel it needs.

[prajeshbhat]

Do you realy think india will slow down iran oil imports?

It's a mistake to make an enemy out the world's third largest oil exporter. Unlike USA , India cannot just print currency to pay for oil. We have to take it from wherever we get it.

[babystrangeloop]

It's a mistake to make an enemy out the world's third largest oil exporter.

Iran is the world's number five crude oil exporter, who is number three?

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.

[dolanbaker]

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.

I'm absolutely amazed that this story hasn't made headlines around the world as it (technically) affects nearly 20% of the global population.

Just imagine if the Whole of Europe AND North America lost their electricity supplies at the same time!

[EdwinSm]

Wrong country, and four years after the start of the 'Cliff-event' should have happened:- but still does this remind anyone else of the Olduvai theory?


BTW where has Duncan published up dates to his theory since 2006 (my last date is an article in the Winter 2005-2006 issue of "The Social Contract")?

[dsula]

Some technical glitch, that's it. Nothing a soldering iron and some scrap metal can't fix.

[dinopello]

The article I read said that 300 million Indians do not have access to electricity under normal circumstances.

[dolanbaker]

A good video about the state of power generation in India, note the date!

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.

[dorlomin]

In India, even in the wealthy suburbs, you can only bank on about 8 hours electricity a day. Gas seems to have caught the general state of Indian electricity provision in one photo.

[ritter]

Yes, electricity supply in Thailand is very much like in India - cables, both insulated & uninsulated hanging everywhere & bloody dangerous.

Gas

[sarcasm] Clearly not enough attorneys in either of those countries. [/sarcasm]

[Lore]

Failing power grid infrastructure and having to dig now over 600 ft. to find water to irrigate their crops in order to feed their people. Sounds to me like the next political hot spot.

[dohboi]

Yep, this is coming on top of a drought--

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/passengers-rest-inside-a-train-while-waiting-for-the-electricity-to-be-restored-at-a-railway-station-in-kolkata/1032703.html

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.

It's all connected.

[Newfie]

Yup, all connected,,just not to the grid.

http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2012/07 ... rifts.html

So, say there was a nuke exchange there. How would it effect the Western world?

EMI takes out all high tech, no call centers, software maintenance freezes.?