The sea link is the first part of the ambitious, and some say misguided, Western Freeway Sea Project aimed at providing a faster alternative to Mumbai's north-south traffic that currently moves at a crawling pace.
The cable hit in Wednesday's apparent sabotage was the South East Asia Middle East Western Europe 4 (SEA-ME-WE 4) - one of the main cables snaking under the Mediterranean, Mena said.
Flanked by the mountainous Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, the slender state descends from tea plantation-cloaked slopes to golden beaches that edge into vivid blue seas.
The western slopes (below 1, 200 meters above sea level) are dominated by douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla).
Still on the block: certain natural gas assets in Western Canada and non-core North Sea assets.
The waves conceal whales, dolphins and sea turtles, and the western beaches are covered with armies of blue-backed soldier crabs that rear up on their hind legs and flee in panic at the approach of a human foot.
The Saints will play the first, home leg at Newtown's Latham Park, with the return in Ventspils, a city in north-western Latvia on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
It was triggered by a magnitude 8.0 quake under the sea and flattened several villages on the western coast of Santa Cruz Island.
Morocco is trying to entice more western filmmakers to its fabulous landscapes of mountains, sea and sand, and it recently won the right to continue to subsidise its fledgling film industry in a trade deal with America.
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In 1997, aged 32, she moved back to Beijing from New York, joining a steady trickle of returnees (the Chinese call them hai gui or sea-turtles): young, western-educated professionals keen to apply their new skills in their own country, and to get rich.
The northern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerian region, which sits along the coast of the Baltic Sea, was a part of former East Germany.
In the Western Cape, towering sand dunes run to the edge of the sea and you examine a stunning and extensive collection of ancient rock art.
So, look for energy resources to be coming from offshore Greenland, central Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, the North Sea, North Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern and Western Siberia and the Caspian says Schlumberger.
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Lundberg blamed the jump on reduced production from North Sea platforms, tensions among Iran, its Persian Gulf neighbors and Western powers and a dispute between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan that has cut off southern oil from global markets.
Western governments, especially America's, do not seem to have noticed the sea-change in Shia attitudes over the past decade.
That was before Western-style environmental consciousness washed over the dynamite-fishing grounds of the Andaman Sea, according to Ing Kanjanavanit, an outspoken opponent of the film.
Five western oil companies are vying to help Gazprom exploit its massive Shtokman field in the Barents Sea.
Western military analysts have noted Russia's use of destroyers and landing craft from the Black Sea and Northern Fleets to back up its feeble Baltic-based naval forces.
Dr Judith Clarke, chairwoman of the North Western Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority said understanding of shark, ray and skate populations in the Irish Sea was currently insufficient to implement measures to protect the species.
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a venture involving Western corporations along with Kazakstan, Russia and Oman, will carry oil west, north of the Caspian Sea.
Monument Oil and Gas was among the first western firms to strike a deal in Turkmenistan, one of the energy-rich countries surrounding the Caspian Sea.
In my dreams, you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night.
Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.
For example, the sea services will largely cease operating in South America and scale back operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.
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It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
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