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Pakistan tests nuclear capable missile again: army Islamabad (AFP) April 21, 2008 
Pakistan's military on Monday carried out a training launch of a long-range nuclear-capable missile which can hit targets deep in rival India, the second such test in three days, the military said. The Shaheen II, or Hatf VI, missile with a range of 2,000 kilometres (1,280 miles) was launched from an undisclosed location by the Army Strategic Force Command, a military statement said. ... read more
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Commentary: Not by bread alone
Washington, April 21, 2008 With the world consuming more food than it produces and global grain stocks at their lowest in 30 years, food prices are soaring from Indonesia to Indiana. Some experts called it the perfect storm and others a tsunami. More intense and more frequent weather disasters put an increasing number of people at risk of hunger. Food riots broke out in widely scattered parts of the world, even hounding ... more Indian Government Actively Considering Sending Man Into Space 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Apr 18, 2008India 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 ... more 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 |
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India-Bangladesh Border (AFP) April 14, 2008Huge cheering crowds lined railway tracks on the border between India and Bangladesh on Monday as passenger train services resumed between the two countries after a gap of more than 40 years. Trains, named the Maitree (Friendship) Express, travelled in both directions for the first time since the service was suspended after a 1965 war between India and Pakistan, when Bangladesh was part of ... more ISRO's Licensing Role Comes Under US Scrutiny 
New Delhi (PTI) Apr 14, 2008The role of India Space Research Organisation in influencing the licensing policy for hiring foreign satellites by telecom and broadcasting firms, has come the scanner of the US Department of Commerce. An annual review, completed under an American law identifying barriers facing the US telecom and equipment suppliers, has found a conflict of interest between ISRO's "unofficial" role as a regulator ... more Analysis: India eyes Kazakh energy 
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 |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 08, 2008A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The computer-modeling study showed a nuclear war between the two countries involving 50 Hiroshima-sized nu ... more India loosens purse strings to woo resource-rich Africa 
New Delhi (AFP) April 8, 2008India sought to deepen strategic and economic ties with resource-rich Africa as it held its first summit meeting on Tuesday with African leaders and sweetened the pot by offering financial help. Indian Premier Manmohan Singh, playing host to the presidents of five African states and senior leaders of nine other countries, announced export tariffs cuts that he said would benefit 34 of Africa' ... more IU Asteroid Program Records Final Chapter 
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
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