Venice carnival 2010

Tourism in Italy is rated as one of the best tourist spots and Venice the most important place in Italy that has water roads hosts a festival every year known as the Venice Carnival or Carnevale di Venezia or Масленица Венеция. The dates for Venice Carnival 2010(Carnevale De Venezia 2010)has been announced. It will be held from 6th to 16th February, 2010. Its one of the internationally known festival. It attracts lots of tourist ever year. During this festival people wear variety of beautiful masks and the streets of Venice will be full of people with masks.There will be a lot of clowns, jugglers wearing venice masks and you can see lovely girls dancing in the streets..The town will be full of festivities..Basilica di San Marco is a famous place to visit in Venice..Here are some pictures for you from the carnival..The other carnivals that are happening now are Rio Carnival 2010, Montevideo Carnival 2010.. Check this out for more pictures and info

Indian arms deal

India is one of the biggest democratic countries in the world but they are not happy about their military power. This year the country is planning to buy lot of arms from the West as it faces stiff opposition and competition from its rivals the Chinese and Pakistanis. Arms sales is booming as a multi billion dollar industry with the countries going behind them.Indian arms deal is spread with several countries like Russia, USA, UK and France..

From Russia: India has been a very old customer buying MiG fighter jets(MiG 35), Sukhois and the latest of them being the acquisition of the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov from Russia.The MiG planes are very famous as they often crash. The deal with Russians runs into $4.8Billion.



From Britain: Britain has sold a lot of fighter jets to India namely the Jaguar, The Sea Harrier, Sea Hawk and the first aircraft carrier INS Vikrant was bought from Britain.

From USA, France: The US Defence company Lockheed Martin is trying to sell its F16 Viper and F18 Super Hornet.The French Defence company Dassault Rafale has sold 60 Mirage-2000 planes to India.