The Keystone Pipeline System is a pipeline system to transportsynthetic crude oil from the Athabasca Oil Sands in northeasternAlberta, Canada to refineries in Illinois and Oklahoma, and further to the U.S. Gulf Coast. It consists of the operational "Keystone Pipeline" and proposed Keystone XL (Keystone Expansion) pipeline. Keystone XL has faced lawsuits from oil refineries, criticism from environmentalistsand some members of the United States Congress.
Monday, September 19, 2011
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What is NTRO?
-the NTRO is an orphan in the ministerial system of administration — an intelligence agency that reports directly to the National Security Adviser, not to the Home Minister,
-It is a premier apex scientific organization under the National Security Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office, India.
-Set up in 2004 with a mandate to bring state-of-the-art intelligence gathering and surveillance equipment to India, the NTRO was originally envisaged to be a ‘facilitator' rather than a producer, processor or consumer of intelligence.
-to deploy its capabilities as part of the operations that other agencies like the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing were running.
-It also includes National Institute of Cryptology Research and Development (NICRD), which is first of its kind in Asia.
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