Giant UFO Crash With Aliens in India Report April Fool’s Day Hoax?

We came across an online news report from the Chandigarh Tribune in India dated March 31. The headline:


‘UFO crashlands in fields near city’

We’ve been unable to find any other reports on this UFO story but, and this is a BIG BUT, the news source, the Chandigarh Tribune, seems to be a legitimate news source ranked 18, 292 on Alexa. According to the report, a giant UFO, an ‘unidentified flying object said to be carrying “aliens” crash landed near Zirakpur in the early hours of Friday morning’. Zirakpur is a satellite town of Chandigarh (Pop. 10 million) located in the Mohali district of Punjab which would make the UFO story, a ‘local’ news report from the Tribune. According to the report, the UFO–an elliptical object the size of ‘five cargo ships’ crash landed ‘with a thud’ in a field. Punjab police have cordoned off the site with NASA officials ‘on their way’ to investigate the crash. Also headed to the alleged UFO crash:

‘Experts from the department of space and the Atomic Energy Commission, sleuths from the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) and crack commandos of the army’s special forces are believed to be on their way to the site.’

When researching this report we discovered something we believe is interesting, the lack of UFO reports from India with a population of 1.2 billion people. We discovered a report which claimed there’s secret UFO bases on the border of China and India which both the China and India governments ‘hide’. (More on the alleged UFO bases later.)

Below, the giant UFO report which we took a screenshot in case it ‘vanishes’ from the web.


The TribuneinIndia.com:

    Chandigarh, March 31


    In a startling development an unidentified flying object said to be carrying “aliens” crash landed near Zirakpur in the early hours of Friday morning. Estimated to be the size of five cargo ships, this elliptical object that emitted an “intense white light encircled the fields before it went down with a thud. No one is believed to have been killed or injured and the area has been cordoned off by a large contingent of the Punjab police that has been rushed to the site.

Japan Earthquake: 8000 dead and 12,000 still missing

Japan earthquake 2011

Japan’s police agency says more than 8,000 people are dead and more than 12,000 are listed as missing after last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

A week after the disasters devastated the northeast coast, the National Police Agency said Sunday that the number of bodies collected so far stood at 8,133, while 12,272 people were listed as missing.

Libyan PM sounded desperate after UN resolution: Ban

Libya

UN chief Ban Ki-moon told a meeting of top world officials on Libya that the country's prime minister had assured him of compliance with a ceasefire and had sounded "rather desperate" to prevent international military action.

At the meeting in Paris to plan action against Libya, Secretary General Ban said that after the Security Council authorised use of force in the country, Libya's Prime Minister Al Baghdadi Ali al-Mahmoudi had assured compliance with a ceasefire.

U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigns after public spat

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico has resigned after a public dispute with President Felipe Calderon over the handling of the war against Mexico's powerful drug gangs.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that she and President Barack Obama had accepted Ambassador Carlos Pascual's resignation "with great reluctance."

The announcement came as a surprise just as Obama began a five-day trip to Latin America, where he is visiting El Salvador, Brazil and Chile, to shore up ties with the region.

The United States and Mexico have long lauded their close economic ties and cooperation on security issues, with more than $1 billion in U.S. aid being funneled to Mexican forces to battle the drug cartels.

But a diplomatic fight erupted after State Department documents published by WikiLeaks showed Pascual criticizing Mexican authorities' lack of coordination in operations targeting cartel leaders.

Calderon lashed out in an unusually critical newspaper interview on February 22, saying Pascual had shown "ignorance" and distorted what was happening in the country.

He also said U.S. security forces failed to coordinate their own efforts and saw each other as "rivals."

Raymond Davis' release paves way for Zardari's visit to US

The resolution of the case of CIA contractor Raymond Davis has paved the way for Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to the US and both countries have started working on dates and the agenda for the trip, officials said on Friday.

The US called off a trilateral meeting with Pakistan and Afghanistan after Davis was arrested in Lahore in January for shooting and killing two men.

The development also resulted in a delay in Zardari's planned visit to the US sometime early this month.

Davis was pardoned and freed by a Pakistani court this week after the families of the two men he killed agreed to a "blood money" deal of over two million dollars under Islamic laws.

Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that the foreign office had begun working on Zardari's visit to the US. "However, no date has been finalised as yet," he said.

Responding to a question, Babar said: "The president's visit to the US was not postponed but rescheduled owing to the Davis issue."

India’s Union Budget 2011 about Agriculture Of INDIA

AGRICULTURE

    * Removal of production and distribution bottlenecks for items like fruits and vegetables, milk, meat, poultry and fish to be the focus of attention this year.

    * Allocation under Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana (RKVY) increased from Rs. 6,755 crore to Rs. 7,860 crore.

Bringing Green Revolution to Eastern Region

    * To improve rice based cropping system in this region, allocation of Rs. 400 crore has been made.

Integrated Development of 60,000 pulses villages in rainfed areas

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to promote 60,000 pulses villages in rainfed areas.

Promotion of Oil Palm

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to bring 60,000 hectares under oil palm plantations.

    * Initiative to yield about 3 lakh Metric tonnes of palm oil annually in five years.

Initiative on Vegetable Clusters

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore for implementation of vegetable initiative to provide quality vegetable at competitive prices.

Nutri-cereals

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to promote higher production of Bajra, Jowar, Ragi and other millets, which are highly nutritious and have several medicinal properties.

National Mission for Protein Supplement

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore to promote animal based protein production through livestock development, dairy farming, piggery, goat rearing and fisheries.

Accelerated Fodder Development Programme

    * Allocation of Rs. 300 crore for Accelerated Fodder Development Programme to benefit farmers in 25,000 villages.

National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture

    * Government to promote organic farming methods, combining modern technology with traditional farming practices.

Agriculture Credit

    * Credit flow for farmers raised from Rs. 3,75,000 crore to Rs. 4,75,000 crore in 2011-12.

    * Interest subvention proposed to be enhanced from 2 per cent to 3 per cent for providing short-term crop loans to farmers who repay their crop loan on time.

    * In view of enhanced target for flow of agriculture credit, capital base of NABARD to be strengthened by Rs. 3,000 crore in phased manner.

    * Rs. 10,000 crore to be contributed to NABARD’s Short-term Rural Credit fund for 2011-12.

Mega Food Parks

    * Approval being given to set up 15 more Mega Food Parks during 2011-12.

Storage Capacity and Cold Chains

    * Augmentation of storage capacity through private entrepreneurs and warehousing corporations has been fast tracked.

    * Capital investment in creation of modern storage capacity will be eligible for viability gap funding of the Finance Ministry.

Agriculture Produce Marketing Act

    * In view of recent episode of inflation, need for State Governments to review and enforce a reformed Agriculture Produce Marketing Act.

Infrastructure and Industry

    * Allocation of Rs. 2,14,000 crore for infrastructure in 2011-12. This is an increase of 23.3 per cent over 2010-11. This also amounts to 48.5 per cent of total plan allocation.

    * Government to come up with a comprehensive policy for further developing PPP projects.

    * IIFCL to achieve cummulative disbursement target of Rs. 20,000 crore by March 31, 2011 and Rs.

25,000 crore by March 31, 2012.

    * Under take out financing scheme, seven projects sanctioned with debt of  Rs. 1,500 crore. Another Rs. 5,000 crore will be sanctioned during 2011-12.

    * To boost infrastructure development, tax free bonds of Rs. 30,000 crore proposed to be issued by Government undertakings during 2011-12.

National Manufacturing Policy

    * Share of manufacturing in GDP expected to grow from about 16 per cent to 25 per cent over a period of 10 years. Government will come out with a manufacturing policy.

    * Two Committees set up for greater transparency and accountability in procurement policy; and for allocation, pricing and utilisation of natural resources.

    * Issues relating to reconciliation of environmental concern from various departmental activities

including those related to infrastructure and mining to be considered by a Group of Ministers.

    * National Mission for hybrid and electric vehicle to be launched.

    * Financial Assistance to be made available for metro projects in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Chennai.

    * Capital investment in fertiliser production proposed to be included as an infrastructure sub-sector.

Exports

    * Of 23 suggestions made by Task Force on Transaction Cost, constituted by the Department of Commerce, 21 suggestions already implemented. Action to be taken on the remaining two suggestions.

Transaction Cost of Rs. 2,100 crore will thus be mitigated.

    * Self assessment to be introduced in Customs to modernize the Customs administration.

    * Proposal to introduce scheme for refund of taxes paid on services used for export of goods.

    * Mega Cluster Scheme to be extended for leather products. Seven mega leather clusters to be set up during 2011-12.

    * Jodhpur to be included for the development of a handicraft mega cluster.

India’s Union Budget 2011 about Invest Policies

INVESTMENT ENVIRONMENT

Foreign Direct Investment

    * Discussions underway to further liberalise the FDI policy.

Foreign Institutional Investors

    * SEBI registered mutual funds permitted to accept subscription from foreign investors who meet KYC requirements for equity schemes.

    * To enhance flow of funds to infrastructure sector, the FII limit for investment in corporate bonds issued in infrastructure sector being raised.

Financial Sector Legislative Initiatives

    * To take the process of financial sector reforms further, various legislations proposed in 2011-12.

    * Amendments proposed to the Banking Regulation Act in the context of additional banking licences to private sector players.

Public Sector Bank Capitalisation

·        Rs. 6,000 crore to be provided during 2011-12 to enable public sector banks to maintain a minimum of

Tier I CRAR of 8 per cent.

Recapitalisation of Regional Rural Banks

    * Rs. 500 crore to be provided to enable Regional Rural Banks to maintain a CRAR of at least 9 per

cent as on March 31, 2012.

Micro Finance Institutions

    * “India Microfinance Equity Fund” of Rs. 100 crore to be created with SIDBI

    * Government considering putting in place appropriate regulatory framework to protect the interest of small borrowers.

    * “Women’s SHG’s Development Fund” to be created with a corpus of Rs. 500 crore

Rural Infrastructure Development Fund

    * Corpus of RIDF XVII to be raised from Rs. 16,000 crore to Rs. 18,000 crore.

Micro Small and Medium Enterprises

    * Rs. 5,000 crore to be provided to SIDBI for refinancing incremental lending by banks to these enterprises.

    * Rs3,000 crore to be provided to NABARD to provide support to handloom weaver co-operative societies which have become financially unviable due to non-repayment of debt by handloom weavers facing economic stress.

    * Public sector banks to achieve a target of 15 per cent as outstanding loans to minority communities under priority sector lending at the earliest.

Housing Sector Finance

    * Existing scheme of interest subvention of 1 per cent on housing loan further liberalised.

    * Existing housing loan limit enhanced to Rs. 25 lakh for dwelling units under priority sector lending.

    * Provision under Rural Housing Fund enhanced to Rs. 3,000 crore.

    * To enhance credit worthiness of economically weaker sections and LIG households, a Mortgage Risk

Guarantee Fund to be created under Rajiv Awas Yojana.

    * Central Electronic Registry to prevent frauds involving multiple lending on the same immovable property to become operational by March 31, 2011.

Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission

    * Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission set up to rewrite and streamline the financial sector laws, rules and regulations.

    * Companies Bill to be introduced in the Lok Sabha during current session.

India’s Union Budget 2011 Highlights

OPPORTUNITIES

    * Swift and broad based growth in 2010-11 has put the economy back to its pre-crisis growth trajectory.

Fiscal consolidation has been impressive.

    * Significant progress in critical institutional reforms that would set the pace for double-digit growth in the near future.

    * Dynamism in the rural economy due to scaled up flow of resources to the rural areas.

CHALLENGES

    * Structural concerns on inflation management to be addressed by improving supply response of agriculture to the expanding domestic demand and through stronger fiscal consolidation.

    * Implementation gaps, leakages from public programmes and the quality of outcomes pose a serious challenge.

    * Impression of drift in governance and gap in public accountability is misplaced.

    * Corruption as a problem to be fought collectively. Government to improve the regulatory standards and administrative practices.

    * Inputs from colleagues on both sides of House are important in the wider national interest.

    * Budget 2011-12 to serve as a transition towards a more transparent and result oriented economic management system in India.

OVERVIEW OF THE ECONOMY

    * Gross Domestic Product (GDP) estimated to have grown at 8.6 per cent in 2010-11 in real terms.

Economy has shown remarkable resilience

    * Continued high food prices have been principal concern this year.

    * Consumers denied the benefit of seasonal fall in prices despite improved availability of food items, revealing shortcomings in distribution and marketing systems.

    * Monetary policy measures taken expected to further moderate inflation in coming months.

    * Exports have grown by 29.4 per cent, while imports have recorded a growth of 17.6 per cent during

April to January 2010-11 over the corresponding period last year

    * Indian economy expected to grow at 9 per cent with an outside band of +/- 0.25 per cent in 2011-12.

    * Average inflation expected lower next year and current account deficit smaller.

SUSTAINING GROWTH

Fiscal consolidation

    * Fiscal consolidation targets at Centre and States have shown positive effect on macro economic management of the economy.

    * Amendment to Centre’s FRBM Act, 2003 laying down the fiscal road map for the next five years to be introduced in the course of the year.

    * Proposal to introduce the Public Debt Management Agency of India Bill in the next financial year.

Tax Reforms

    * Direct Taxes Code (DTC) to be finalised for enactment during 2011-12. DTC proposed to be effective from April 1, 2012.

    * Areas of divergence with States on proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) have been narrowed. As a step towards roll out of GST, Constitution Amendment Bill proposed to be introduced in this session of Parliament.

    * Significant progress in establishing GST Network (GSTN), which will serve as IT infrastructure for introduction of GST.

Expenditure Reforms

    * A Committee already set up by Planning Commission to look into the extant classification of public expenditure between plan, non-plan, revenue and capital.

Subsidies

    * Nutrient Based Subsidy (NBS) has improved the availability of fertiliser; Government actively considering extension of the NBS regime to cover urea.

    * Government to move towards direct transfer of cash subsidy to people living below poverty line in a phased manner for better delivery of kerosene, LPG and fertilisers. Task force set up to work out the modalities for the proposed system.

People’s ownership of PSUs

    * Overwhelming response to public issues of Central Public Sector Undertakings during current year.

    * Higher than anticipated non-tax revenue has led to reschedulement of some disinvestment issues planned for current year.

    * Rs. 40,000 crore to be raised through disinvestment in 2011-12.

    * Government committed to retain at least 51 per cent ownership and management control of the Central Public Sector Undertakings.