Goa has provoked strain in India-Russia ties: Russian Diplomat

[bolo]

India is making enemies with everyone including Russia, US, China and all its South Asian neighbours.

I think indians got too cocky after they tested Agni v "China killer" missile. Lol.

 

[Chronos]

and what about Fair n Lovely........

Everything is fair in war and love.

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

I think indians got too cocky after they tested Agni v "China killer" missile. Lol.

That missile is not even operational and knowing India's famous history of delays, it won't be in service for decades.

It's also outdated technology which easily be countered by our mid-course missile defence systems and then proceed to wipe India off the map with our retaliation.

 

[bolo]

Agni 5 can reach Russia as well

So can 500 nuclear warheads to indian subcontinent

 

[Aarush]

India is making enemies with everyone including Russia, US, China and all its South Asian neighbours.

do you have any other thing to say or programmed like this way only...its just a matter between state gov and russians and suddenly people jumped on the unfactual conclusion.

Our relation is not weak that they can be strain by these small events..

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

So can 500 nuclear warheads to indian subcontinent

Going by all the submarines getting caught in fire and fighter jets crashing in India, I doubt most of their missiles will even work.

India's nuclear arsenal is very outdated and only has atom bombs.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Indo-Russian music fest in Goa cancelled over cabbies' protest

IANS | Goa
February 1, 2014 Last Updated at 18:52 IST

In a blow to music lovers, an Indo-Russian musical festival slated for Saturday in this coastal Indian state popular with Russian tourists has been cancelled over a fight between taxi drivers and tour operators vying to grab transport services for Russian tourists.

The state government declined to give permission to allow the Great Live Music-2014 - the second Russian-Indian musical festival - on Saturday.

The Goa ministry of tourism in a letter has informed the organisers that holding the festival would be impossible until settlement of a conflict between tourist operators and taxi drivers, according to Itar-Tass.

Several days earlier Goa's taxi drivers went on a rally protesting against tourist operators working with Russian tourists and offering transport services to them. The local drivers maintain their livelihood has been snatched by the tour operators who have grabbed the Russian charter tourists.

"It is a rather strange and rather weird decision, Goa's authorities have made. The cultural event, like the festival, which was approved beforehand, does not have, and may not have anything to do with problems of transport services or serving Russian tourists in Goa," Russia's Ambassador in India Alexander Kadakin told Itar-Tass.

"Those are different aspects. The authorities should rather focus on correction of inadequate taxi tariffs."

"It is unfair that local taxi drivers strip Russian tourists, who have to save their modest earnings for several years to come to Goa," he said.

"The unrighteous approach of the local authorities to organisation of cultural events will affect the inflow of Russian tourists here. Most likely, they will have to choose from other more welcoming resorts," the ambassador said, according to Itar-Tass.

In an angry reaction, Deputy Consul General of the Russian Federation in Mumbai Alexey Mzareulov told IANS: "If Goa wants to lose Russian money fine with us... The festival may now be shifted to Thailand."

Lawyer Vikram Varma, who represents Russians in Goa, said the organisers had complied with the rules. The Great Live Music-2014 organisers filed their application on Jan 9 for the event and paid for all respective duties.

The festival was to feature over ten musical groups from Russia, Latvia and India, including Latvia's Brainstorm, India's Parikrama, and Gleb Samoilov and his Matrixx group from Russia. They all are in Goa already.

Parikrama's keyboardist Subir Malik told Itar-Tass the group had to cancel several concerts to participate in the festival. The group gave concerts in mid-January in St. Petersburg, where the audience warmly welcomed the musicians.

Great Live Music was first held Feb 1-6.The event featured over 20 groups from Russia, India, Britain, and Ukraine.

In 2013, Goa welcomed a record 2.8 million visitors, including 450,000 foreigners. The region is also very popular with Russians: over 120,000 tourists visited Goa, and the forecasts say in 2014 over 200,000 Russians could visit the resort

Indo-Russian music fest in Goa cancelled over cabbies' protest | Business Standard

 

[Aarush]

It's also outdated technology which easily be countered by our mid-course missile defence systems and then proceed to wipe India off the map with our retaliation.

if you are so sure then instead of showing your mouth and tent power, come up with your so called missiles and army..

 

[cybertron]

Why do politicos turn out to be such idiots, be it any State in this country!