December 1, bilateral intergovernmental agreement between Russia and India will come into force.
This was previously reported by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich, wrote “Arguments and Facts”.
The document stipulates that a tourist visa to India will be available for up to six months.
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In Bombay, India opened its first museum of Christian art.
Among the exhibits there are manuscripts of the Bible, religious books of different ages, crosses, liturgical utensils, altars, vestments, sculptures and paintings.
The oldest exhibits have been dated from the XVI century.
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India is going to build an experimental nuclear power plant, which will be able to work without uranium.
The main fuel to be used for energy will be thorium.
A revolutionary nuclear power plant will be built in India by 2020.
Instead of traditional uranium fuel, the researchers intend to use thorium.
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The company Research and Markets offered a new report «GPS Tracking and Navigation Market in India 2011″, which analyzes the state of Indian navigation market, to its partners.
According to the report, the total market size in 2009 was estimated at 4.7 billion rupees and still has a tendency to increase.
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Incas – one of the more developed nations of Indians, according to archaeologists, the bulk of what they have created, passed to him by inheritance from the surrounding nations, and have existed here before the Incas.
The Incas developed the irrigation system, they have at a high level ceramic art, they made one of the first sewage etc.
Maya, unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), began to disappear even before they arrived on American soil the white colonialists. The Aztecs continued to exist, so we have more information about them, told by the conquistadors.
However, information and stories about them are mostly painted in blood, but they give an idea about the people of the Aztecs, its long history and high development.
Mayan Indians are one of the most popular on tribal lands, characterized by extremely high development (even said that the technology they have received from the aliens).
What’s so amazing Mayan? They created works of art – but not only paintings and sculptures, but entire cities carved out of stone, it is the Mayan calendar was invented, made active use of the letter, were remarkable astronomers.
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The tragedy of the Indians, probably, now known to everyone – this is the autochthonous inhabitants of the Americas, which were almost driven from their homes, and long had to fight the “white”. American Indians who lived on the local territory, were considered wild, and the conquerors treated them as mentally underdeveloped people, or as to the children cruelly deceiving them and destroying. There were many transactions, for some American Indians gave up their land for beads, knives and stuff, and were forced to leave their territory.
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The fate of all Indian tribes deserve a separate discussion. Surprisingly even the fact that for almost 500 years of colonization and the brutal struggle for survival, Native Americans still managed to preserve the basic and most important traditions of their ancestors. Of course, not all tribes have survived till this day, however, the Indians of North America are still one of the largest organizations in the protection of indigenous ethnic groups. Only through this and similar organizations made possible the studing of Indian culture and customs: it is one thing to carry out excavations in the dead city, step by step, breaking a path to the wild guesses and quite another to restore the true course of events, based on a living culture, even if it is experienced many changes over the past century.
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Indians of North America appear as one of the most amazing nation. Anthropologists still debate about their origin, putting forward many of the most incredible version, attributing a pioneering peoples of Siberia, the Scandinavians, the Australian Aborigines. The most interesting thing that any of these theories has the full right to existence and it is secured by various archaeological finds.
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