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...Indian Defense Minister, A.K. Antony, called this week's massive defense-industry trade show, Defexpo 2010, "an endeavor to showcase India's capabilities in land and naval systems as well as its emergence as an attractive destination for investment in the defense sector." His junior minister, M.M. Pallam Raju, was a little more blunt. He called the event, which attracted more than 600 companies from 35 countries, a "one-stop shop." India is emerging as one of the most important defense markets in the world, with billions of dollars to spend, and the global defense industry is only too happy...
...already in its final stages - Indian air force pilots are testing the planes in the field - so it is unlikely that the PowerPoint slides at Defexpo will sway the decision. Still, says Marco Bonelli, spokesman for the Eurofighter Typhoon, "you have to be here." (See pictures of India a year after the Mumbai attacks...
...this year’s Swimsuit Edition, Sports Illustrated flew their 20 models to different locations arounnd the world for photoshoots—Turkey, the Maldives, Chile. Dara traveled to Rajasthan, the northern state of India where her ancestors lived, and posed in the summer heat of September...
Though now touting a resume that also includes work with Vogue India and Neiman Marcus, Dara tries to stay down-to-earth. “She would describe herself as awkward, though. She doesn’t take herself too seriously,” said Santiago Daniño-Beck ’09, Dara’s boyfriend...
...some days, Boa Sr would sit silently in the jungle surrounding her home on one of India's Andaman Islands and gaze up at the sky. According to researchers who looked on, birds perched above would descend to the ground and inspect her; in turn Boa Sr spoke to them in her native tongue, calling them her ancestors and her friends. Her speech was rich with words of the natural world, words of the forest and the sea that some linguists suspect date back tens of thousands of years to the first migrations of man. Boa Sr was the last...