The state-owned Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation is set to open its much-delayed showpiece project: the 4.7 km (2.9 mile) Bandra-Worli Sealink, India's longest ocean bridge.

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The Indian Ocean Regional Tsunami Service Providers of Australia, India and Indonesia are monitoring the event and issuing tsunami advisories to the National Tsunami Warning Centres of the Indian Ocean region.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

Many foreign companies go through the Indian Ocean nation to invest in India, which doesn't have a treaty safeguarding investments with the U.S. and some other countries.

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More than 40 percent of foreign direct investment in India comes through this tiny island in the Indian Ocean.

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Minutes after the earthquake, Indian Ocean Regional Tsunami Service Providers of Australia, India and Indonesia issued bulletins with detailed information and threat evaluations.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

Mr Varma's answer is brutal: the rich in India have always lived a life quite uncaring of the ocean of poverty around them.

ECONOMIST: India

There had long been much more trade in the Indian Ocean than in the Atlantic, moreover, and China or India had never experienced an industrial revolution.

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Regional Tsunami Service Providers (RTSPs) in India, Indonesia and Australia are now the primary source of tsunami advisories for the Indian Ocean.

UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations

The Agni-V was launched from a site off India's east coast and took about 20 minutes to hit its target somewhere near Indonesia in the Indian Ocean.

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