>In the Peterborough Examiner of January 2, there is a news item re honking >at traffic lights in NEW DELHI. It reads ".. within 100 metres of a >traffic signal ..". > >I took a look at Ananova and they seem to 'massage' world news for a >parochial readership viz. the British Isles. In Australia (where we visited >in 2001), they use m, km, km/h, Deg C, hectares, litres etc. as a matter of >course. One would never guess this on reading Australian news in the >Ananova site. > >BTW, the Peterborough Examiner item was datelined "NEW DELHI (AP)". >Duncan
Associated Press always ignore the existence of DELHI, which is a 2 millenia old city. It contains the old Red Fort, the Jama Mastjid mosque, Ghandhi's memorial, the main business street Chandni Chowk, Delhi University, and the main railway station. New Delhi is the government enclave within Delhi, built in 1910 when the Government of India was moved from Calcutta. Delhi in within Delhi State, which contains Delhi airport, clearly marked DELHI, not New Delhi. New Delhi has not enough space for an airport. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
