India’s home-built nuclear submarine set for trials
INDIA: India on Wednesday said its first
home-built nuclear submarine was set for sea trials, as it detailed
billion-dollar projects to arm its navy with warships, aircraft and
modern weaponry. The indigenous 6,000-ton INS Arihant (Destroyer of
Enemies) was unveiled in 2009 as part of a project to construct five
such vessels which would be armed with nuclear-tipped missiles and
torpedoes.
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Clinton lunches with Mandela in rare visit at his home
S AFRICA: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
met Nelson Mandela Monday at his rural homestead where South
Africa’s first black president is living out retirement far from the
public eye. Her private lunch with the Nobel Peace Prize winner was
the first event of her South African visit,
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Standard Chartered hid huge Iran trade - NY regulators
US: New York regulators on Monday accused
Standard Chartered Bank of hiding $250 billion in transactions with
Iranian banks for almost a decade in violation of US sanctions.
Branding the London-based global financial giant a “rogue bank,”
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