Posts Tagged ‘Dock’

Call to invest £6bn in new homes

Saturday, April 11, 2009, 1:22
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Chancellor Alistair Darling has been urged to invest in a national housebuilding programme to give "immediate social and financial return" to the ailing economy. Skip related content Related photos / videos Alistair Darling has been urged to provide £6bn for home-building Related content * McLaren in the dock again with the FIA * McLaren invited to explain themselves * ... Full story

King Ludwig II’s watch to go on auction

Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 23:33
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Geneva - A watch commissioned most likely by King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the late 1800s will go on sale in Geneva next month, Sotheby's auction house said Monday. Ludwig II, an eccentric who was removed from power on grounds of insanity, most likely ordered the watch, which is decorated on the back with a depiction of the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon, ... Full story

India to enter elite club, Antony to lay keel of first indigenous aircraft carrier today

Sunday, March 1, 2009, 17:38
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Kochi, Feb 28 (ANI): India will join the elite club today and will become fourth country in the world to indigenously build its own aircraft carrier of 40,000 tonne plus. Defence Minister A.K. Antony will lay the keel for country's first indigenous aircraft carrier or air defence ship (ADS) at the Cochin Shipyard's construction dock in Kerala today, marking the launch of the first phase of ... Full story

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Amphibious landing exercise off Gujarat coast

Monday, February 9, 2009, 14:38
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Madhavpur (Gujarat), Feb 9 (ANI): The Indian Army, Navy and the Air Force today jointly conducted the largest ever amphibious exercise codenamed "EXERCISE TROPEX-2009" at Madhavpur beach in Gujarat. The amphibious landing, the most complex of all military manoeuvres involving coordination and synergy from conceptualization to planning and final execution, was ably demonstrated on the shores of Madhavpur. The element of Coast Guard was also ... Full story

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