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February 18, 2011
Daimler Unveils BharatBenz - An Exclusive Brand for Its Trucks in India
Photo: Mercedes-Benz Zetros + All Wheel Drive (AWD) Technology: Zetros 4x4.
Daimler, the world’s largest manufacturer of Medium and Heavy-duty trucks above 6 tonnes, yesterday unveiled its exclusive new brand of trucks for the Indian market. The brand, BharatBenz, will offer Indian customers an entire range of trucks from 6 to 49 tons across various applications.
Photo: The prototype of a BharatBenz truck.
• Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG & Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars; Andreas Renschler, Head of Daimler Trucks and Daimler Buses; and Marc Llistosella, Managing Director and CEO of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, unveiled the BharatBenz brand at the production location in Oragadam, near Chennai in India.
Photo: 125 years of innovation: 1886 - Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Invention of the motor car.
• Daimler AG, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, is commemorating 125 years of the automobile this year. The pioneering spirit of its founders set the world in motion, by creating the world’s first automobile.
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Contenders for UN Security Council Permanent Seats
Photo: Joseph Deiss (centre), President of the sixty-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly, meets with high-level representatives of the G4 nations, the group seeking permanent seats on the Security Council.
From left:
• Takeaki Matsumoto, Japanese State Secretary for Foreign Affairs.
• V. L. B. Crivano Machado, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs of Brazil.
• S. M. Krishna, Minister for Foreign Affairs of India.
• Guido Westerwelle, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany.
February 11, 2011. United Nations, New York. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe.
• The current council is composed of five permanent members with veto power - the United States, Russia, China, France and Britain, the victors of World War II - and 10 members elected for two-year terms.
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“Well, also,” says he elsewhere, “was it written by Theologians: a King rules by divine right. He carries in him an authority from God, or man will never give it him. Can I choose my own King? I can choose my own King Popinjay, and play what farce or tragedy I may with him: but he who is to be my Ruler, whose will is to be higher than my will, was chosen for me in Heaven.”
— Sartor Resartus By Thomas Carlyle.
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