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COM DEV Launches Advanced Space-Based AIS Validation Nanosatellite Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 
COM DEV International has announced that a nanosatellite carrying an Automatic Identification System (AIS) receiver built by COM DEV has successfully been deployed by the Antrix PSLV-C9 launch conducted from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India on April 28, 2008. This activity is part of COM DEV's technology validation process intended to verify the performance of key elements ... read more |
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Kalam Hails ISRO For Satellite Launch
New Delhi, India (PTI) Apr 30, 2008The launch of 10 satellites at one go by Indian space scientists on Monday got a thumbs-up from former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who dubbed it a triumph of "beautiful and creative minds. This achievement depicts the innovation taking place in the country. India has created history with this launch," Kalam said delivering the 36th Shri Ram Memorial lecture on Innovation in Industry here. ... more Indian rocket puts a record 10 satellites into orbit 
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 28, 2008An Indian rocket launched a record 10 satellites into orbit in a single mission Monday, underlining the nation's emergence as a major competitor in the multi-billion-dollar space market. The PSLV rocket ejected all the satellites within minutes of each other after liftoff at 9:20 a.m. (0350 GMT) in clear weather from the Sriharikota space station in southern India, the Indian Space Research ... more Boeing Delivers Proposal To Equip Indian AF With Super Hornet Fighters 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 30, 2008Boeing has delivered a detailed, 7,000-page proposal offering its advanced F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the Indian Air Force as part of India's Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MMRCA) competition. "Our proposal team worked diligently to fully understand and meet the requirements set out by the Indian Ministry of Defense (MOD). We are offering India the best-value, most advanced and proven ... more Tibet govt-in-exile says 203 dead in Tibetan unrest 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) April 29, 2008The number of people killed in a Chinese crackdown on protests and unrest in Tibet has risen by around 50 to 203, the Tibetan government-in-exile said Tuesday. Some 1,000 people had been hurt and 5,715 arrested since the demonstrations began on March 10, according to figures which the government based in the northern Indian town of Dharamshala said had been extensively cross-checked. ... more PSLV Launches Ten Satellites 
Sriharikota, India (SPX) Apr 29, 2008In 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). ... more |
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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 China, India powers to equal US might in 10 years: Canadian survey 
Ottawa (AFP) April 24, 2008A majority of Canadians (67 percent) believe the influence of China and India in the world will rival that of the United States within the next decade, said a survey Thursday. As well, more than 60 percent of Canadians believe the growing importance of China and India as economic powers are more of an opportunity for Canada than a threat, according to the Angus Reid poll. Some 36 percent ... more Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: experts 
Hanoi (AFP) April 27, 2008Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn. The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of it driven by the illegal timber trade and the growth of oil palm, biofuel and rubber plantations, is worsening global warming, species loss and poverty ... more |
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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
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