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According to the Global Peace Index, some $2.4 trillion (£1.5tr), or 4.4%, of the global economy “is dependent on violence”. The world spends around $1,000 billion annually on the military. In 2008, world military expenditure reached 1.46 trillion dollars, representing 2.4 percent of world gross domestic product (GDP). At least two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Political Parties’
Defence spending causes poverty in India
Posted in Armed Conflicts, Human Rights, India Facts, Poverty, tagged Burma, Corruption, Defence, Democracy, Elections, Hindutva, India, Israel, Political Parties on October 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
India ranks among the lowest in the world in terms of Infrastructure
Posted in Business India, Corruption, India Facts, Poverty, tagged Agriculture, Business, Caste, Corruption, Democracy, Elections, Farmers, Globalization, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Political Parties, Suicide, World Bank on January 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
6 Jan, 2008, TNN
From roads and railways to ports and airports, and from power plants to hydrocarbon infrastructure, India ranks among the lowest in the world in terms of infrastructure availability. The catching up, which has just begun, will go on for years to come and is set to drive India Inc’s [...]
India approves 2.5 billion deal with Israeli Defence
Posted in Armed Conflicts, Corruption, India Facts, tagged Caste, Corruption, Defence, Defense, Globalization, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Israel, Political Parties, Poverty, RSS, US, Weapon, Zionism on July 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
New Delhi – India has started a 2.5-billion-dollar (Rs10,000 crore) joint venture with Israel to develop an advanced range surface-to-air missile capable of detecting and destroying hostile aircraft, missiles and spy planes, news reports said Friday. India now buys half of its arms from Israel, making it Israel’s biggest customer. It is thus funding [...]
Indian rulers have traditionally been a corrupt lot
Posted in Corruption, tagged Caste, Corruption, Democracy, Elections, Hindu, India, Political Parties on June 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For the Love of Money, Hand in Graft
India should take lessons from some of its neighbours to put an end to corruption
Indians have always been hopelessly divided amongst themselves. Small states, enclaves, principalities and kingdoms dotted the landscape in the past. So much so that at the time of Independence, there existed more than 500 [...]
Widespread corruption in the Public Food Distribution System causing starvation deaths in India
Posted in Corruption, Poverty, tagged Caste, Corruption, Defence, Defense, Democracy, Elections, Hindu, Hindutva, India, Political Parties, Poverty, Weapon on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
May 31, 2007
A Written statement submitted by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Prime Minister of India in his foreword in the ‘Report to The People’ dated May 22, 2007, claims: “In this 60th year of independence, the country should have the satisfaction of recording for the fifth year in a succession a rate of economic [...]