All Posts Tagged With: "India"

HSBC (NYSE: HBC) India Deal Falls Through with RBS (NYSE: RBS)

The world’s largest bank, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) (NYSE: HBC) has decided to scrap its plan to buy the retail and commercial banking businesses of Royal Bank of Scotland in India, after negotiating for almost two-and-a-half years. The firms set a long stop date of November 30 2012 to reach an agreement on [...]

Non Proliferation Treaty – What Countries Have Nuclear Weapons

The recent NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) had five signatories, namely; US, Russia, China, Britain and France. Noticeably, among all five of them, the U.S. and Russia are the main sources of nuclear warheads because of the vast majority of weapons they have. On the other side of the picture, we have three countries – Pakistan, [...]

Non-Proliferation Engine of the United States Is Under Risk

The next big nuclear weapons related meeting is due on May 3 to May 28 and right now, the non proliferation engine of the United States is shuddering restlessly, potentially holding a risk of choking itself in a truckload of contradictions. Contradictions have nailed South Asia is one of the biggest issues in the nuclear [...]