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PSLV Launches Ten Satellites Sriharikota, India (SPX) Apr 29, 2008 
In its thirteenth flight conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota, today (April 28, 2008), ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C9, successfully launched the 690 kg Indian remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2A, the 83 kg Indian Mini Satellite (IMS-1) and eight nanosatellites for international customers into a 637 km polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO). ... read more |
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Mission To Space May Not Be A Manned One: ISRO
Bangalore, India (PTI) Apr 28, 2008India's much awaited mission to space, planned to be launched in 2015, may not be a 'manned' one as ISRO is not sure whether it would be a man or a woman who will have the privilege of being an astronaut for this ambitious programme. Faced with the dilemma, ISRO has now renamed its mega venture, costing around Rs 10,000 crore, as 'Indian human space flight', which ISRO officials hope would satis ... more Global giants bid for 12-bln-dlr Indian fighter deal 
New Delhi (AFP) April 28, 2008Global aviation giants on Monday submitted bids to sell 126 warplanes to India -- the world's richest fighter aircraft deal worth 12 billion dollars. Six aeronautical companies from Russia, the United States and Europe offered their proposals to the Indian defence ministry well before an official deadline ended, the companies said. US-based Lockheed Martin said its proposals, which run ... more China begins building Tibet-Nepal rail link: official 
Kathmandu (AFP) April 26, 2008China has started to build a rail link between Tibet and Nepal that could drastically reduce Kathmandu's trade reliance on its giant southern neighbour India, officials said Saturday. Beijing is bringing the railway line from Lhasa -- the capital of troubled Chinese-controlled Tibet -- to Khasa, a town along the Nepal-China border, Aditya Baral, the Nepalese premier's foreign affairs adviser ... more Global aviation giants race to meet Indian fighter deadline 
New Delhi (AFP) April 25, 2008Aviation giants are scrambling to meet a deadline to bid for a 12-billion dollar deal to sell 126 fighter planes to India, but tough arms purchase rules are dogging the global contenders. Six aeronautical firms are expected to submit proposals by Monday for the contract, which includes outright purchase of 18 war jets by 2012. India also holds the option of buying another 64 fighters from th ... more Senegal's Wade says India to fully supply rice needs 
Dakar (AFP) April 24, 2008Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade Thursday said India would furnish the west African nation, where there have been protests against rising food prices, with its full supply of rice needs for the next six years. Despite India restricting exports to premium long grain basmati rice on April 1, Wade said on national television that he had got New Delhi's assurance of a supply of 600,000 tonnes ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) April 22, 2008India on Tuesday told Washington to mind its own business after a US official said New Delhi should urge Iran to curtail its nuclear programme during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian president will arrive in New Delhi on April 29 for a one-day "working visit" topped by talks on two multi-billion-dollar energy deals, an Indian foreign ministry official said this week. ... more Pakistan tests nuclear capable missile again: army 
Islamabad (AFP) April 21, 2008Pakistan'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. ... more 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 |
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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 Anglo American says China, India to power commodity demand 
London (AFP) April 15, 2008Global miner Anglo American predicted on Tuesday that the booming Asian economies of China and India would drive strong demand growth for most commodities over the next ten years. "Over the next 10 years, we anticipate strong demand growth of 4.0-5.0 percent annually for most key commodities, driven mainly by China, as well as by India and other developing countries," said Anglo American ... more Bangladesh, India restore train link after 43-year gap 
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
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