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Indian Government Actively Considering Sending Man Into Space New Delhi, India (PTI) Apr 18, 2008 
India is gearing up for the launch of its maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I later this year and government is actively considering sending a man into space, Minister of State in PMO Prithviraj Chavan said on Wednesday. Integration of 11 experiments -- five Indian and six foreign -- is proceeding satisfactorily and scientists are looking forward to a launch in the third quarter, he said replying ... read more
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Analysis: India, China to aid Nigeria oil 
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Apr 21, 2008India and China have decided to help Nigeria build new refineries rather that continue to buy crude oil for export from the petroleum-rich West African nation. According to Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, three major Chinese petroleum companies agreed this week to build a refinery in the delta, while India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp. also announced it will construct a delta ... more Emerging Economies Create More Value Per Unit Of Energy Consumed 
New Delhi, India (SPX) Apr 18, 2008Given the global consensus on climate change, world leadership has looked at growth in India and China with increasing alarm. The prior experience of industrially-developing countries worldwide would suggest that as an economy grows, it consumes more and more energy. Given currently available energy and technology options, this in turn leads to increased carbon emissions into the environment. ... more Spire To Provide Alpex Exports Of India With Turnkey Solar Module Manufacturing Line 
Bedford MA (SPX) Apr 18, 2008Spire has announced that it has received a contract from Alpex Exports Pvt. Ltd. to provide a photovoltaic module assembly line for that company's operations in New Delhi, India. Alpex is an international trading company. This will be the company's first solar energy facility and will support its growth into both the standard module, and Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) markets. ... more India's weather office forecasts good summer monsoon 
New Delhi (AFP) April 16, 2008India's weather office on Wednesday forecast that the June-to-September annual monsoon rains that are key for crops and the rural economy would be better than average. Indian economic policymakers are depending on ample monsoon rains to help farmers produce more food grains to tame rising prices after inflation hit a three-year high at 7.41 percent last week as global food costs soar. ... more Nigeria says China, India to build it oil refineries 
Abuja (AFP) April 15, 2008China and India have agreed to build oil refineries in Nigeria rather than buying crude from it for export, a Nigerian official said on Tuesday. "What we have agreed with the Chinese is that we will now have a greenfield refinery located in the Niger delta," head of Nigeria's Department of Petroleum Resources, Tony Chukwuemeke, said in the federal capital Abuja. Three prominent Chinese ... more |
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India may be a relative latecomer in the rush for Caspian hydrocarbon riches, but its booming economy and stable democratic traditions make it an attractive market for Central Asian energy producers, particularly Kazakhstan. Bishkek it adroitly seeking to diversify is markets, as Russia takes 33 percent of the country's exports. To bolster India's presence in the Caspian and ... more Analysis: SIMI crackdown helps moderators 
New Delhi, April 10, 2008 The recent crackdown by the Indian police and security agencies against top members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India will help Muslim moderates who have been fighting to marginalize extremists in the community, experts say. "The morale of Muslim religious and political leaders, who are considered to be moderates opposes to SIMI, will go up with the recent arrest of the ... more India, Pakistan to review peace process next month: ministry 
Islamabad (AFP) April 9, 2008Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan will next month review the fourth round of a slow-moving peace process launched in 2004, the Pakistani foreign ministry said Wednesday. The meeting in Islamabad will be the first major talks between the South Asian neighbours since Pakistan's new government came to power after defeating allies of President Pervez Musharraf in February elections. In ... more First India-Africa summit pledges close partnership 
New Delhi (AFP) April 9, 2008India on Wednesday ended its first-ever summit with African nations, aimed at deepening ties with the resource-rich continent and trying to ensure it is not eclipsed by Asian rival China. The two-day meeting, attended by leaders of 14 African countries and regional economic groupings, identified food security, high oil prices and climate change as top concerns in a joint declaration as India ... more |
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Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The Indiana Asteroid Program began with a borrowed lens and a bet over a chocolate ice cream cone. Almost 60 years later, its final chapter was written with the naming of a heavenly body after one of the most dedicated staff members Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Astronomy has ever seen. The program -- launched in 1949 by Hoosier astronomy legend Frank Edmondson -- aimed to ... more India to launch remote sensing satellite this month 
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 4, 2008India will later this month launch a remote sensing satellite equipped with high-resolution cameras and advanced scientific instruments, space agency officials said here Friday. Cartosat-2A, as the all-weather, reconnaissance satellite is called, will be used to plan urban and rural development projects. It can also be used for intelligence gathering, the officials said. "The tentative ... more With eye on resources, India hosts Africa meet 
New Delhi (AFP) April 6, 2008India will host the leaders of several African nations this week as resource-hungry New Delhi seeks to fuel its booming economy and raise its profile in global affairs. Three days of talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, South Africa and others begin Tuesday -- a summit India's junior foreign minister Anand Sharma said would "define the roadmap for future engagement." ... more Japan hails thaw with China but worried about military 
Tokyo (AFP) April 1, 2008Japan hailed a thaw in relations with China while urging greater military transparency from its neighbour in an annual diplomatic review published Tuesday. Japan has "further strengthened its alliance with the United States and at the same time moved its Asian diplomacy forward greatly by improving and promoting relations with China and strengthening relations with India," the report said. ... more
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