Around a third of the total Indian population lives below the international poverty line according to the World Bank and the UN say that a third of malnourished children worldwide are found In India. The 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report placed India amongst only three countries where the GHI went up. Thankfully, Britain gives India £280million a year in Aid.
In April, India announced they had developed the long range intercontinental Agni-V ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead It has cost more than £307m to develop.
In today's news, India has announced that it is stepping up its space program with the launch of a new satellite, a proposed mission to Mars and ten space missions by November 2013, bringing its total budget to $1.3 billion.
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4 comments:
yeah, they are scared of china and pakistan...
q
At least they will have a third of the population to worry about soon. Will have a nice satellite though.
lucy,
gotta be realistic. throughout human history if you couldn't defend your people, or get someone else (USA, UK) to do it, then you are feeding your people so that some other regime with their own philosophies of life can rule them, and you.
reality isn't real nice.
q
hey i like that.. reality isn't real nice...
you can't spell reality with the letters n i c e...
q
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