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Thousands rally for Kashmir in Pakistan Islamabad (AFP) Feb 5, 2009 
Thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets on Thursday to denounce Indian rule in Kashmir, the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan state divided between the nuclear-armed rivals. A public holiday, Kashmir Solidarity Day supports the region's right to self-determination under UN resolutions that call for a plebiscite in Kashmir on whether it should be ruled by Hindu-majority India or Muslim ... read more
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Brazilian Indians fleeing bulldozers: group
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 5, 2009One of the Amazon forest's last nomad tribes, the Awa, is being threatened by bulldozers encroaching on their protected reserve, the group Survival International said Thursday. The 300 Indians making up the community in Brazil's Maranhao state are "fleeing from bulldozers as their last forest is rapidly destroyed," it said in a statement. The tribe includes 60 members who have never had ... more India Works With University Of Leicester On First National Astronomy Satellite 
Leicester, UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2009India's first national Astronomy satellite - Astrosat - is to have key components assembled by the University of Leicester. A team of engineers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, has arrived at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre to progress work on the satellite which is due for launch in 2009. The team, who will be in Leicester until ... more China mulls WTO move over India import ban: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 4, 2009China will likely ask the World Trade Organisation if an Indian ban on imports of its toys violates the trade body's rules, state media reported Wednesday, in a rare move by Beijing. The case, affecting a quarter-of-a-billion dollars' worth of toys, is a sign that China will use WTO rules more often to fight new trade barriers as the global credit crisis makes nations more protectionist, the ... more France's Areva signs nuclear reactor accord with India 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 4, 2009French group Areva on Wednesday signed a draft accord for the sale of two to six nuclear reactors to India, a huge new market now open with the end of a nuclear trade embargo on New Delhi. The memorandum of understanding also covers the potential supply by Areva of fuel during the life of the reactors, slated to be built in Jaitapur in the western state of Maharashtra, home to India's ... more Areva says it will sign Indian nuclear deal Wednesday
Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2009French nuclear power giant Areva said it would on Wednesday sign a deal with Nuclear Power Corp of India to build at least two next-generation EPR nuclear reactors. A memorandum of understanding will be signed by Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon in New Delhi, said the spokesman for the state-controlled group, adding it would open the way for negotiations to build "at least two EPRs." ... more |
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Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 30, 2009The world is heading toward "water bankruptcy" as demand for the precious commodity outstrips even high population growth, a new report warned Friday. In less than 20 years water scarcity could lose the equivalent of the entire grain crops of India and the United States, said the World Economic Forum report, which added that food demand is expected to sky-rocket in coming decades. ... more India to sign IAEA deal on Monday: diplomats 
Vienna (AFP) Jan 30, 2009India will next week sign an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, diplomatic sources said Friday. "The signing will take place on Monday at 2:30pm (1330 GMT)," said one source close to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The so-called safeguards agreement is a pre-condition for a US-led deal ... more Areva to sign Indian nuclear deal this week: French minister 
Mumbai (AFP) Feb 1, 2009French nuclear power engineering company Areva is to sign a deal this week with a number of Indian energy plants, France's foreign trade minister Anne-Marie Idrac said here Sunday. Idrac said that a memorandum of understanding would be signed in the coming days, as part of French moves to tap into India's expanding civil nuclear sector. The minister declined to say exactly how many plant ... more Sorghum gene code could lead to drought-tolerant crops: study 
Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2009An international team of scientists reported on Wednesday it had laid bare the DNA code of sorghum, a hardy tropical cereal whose genes could one day be spliced to produce crops that resist global warming. Sorghum (Latin name Sorghum bicolor) is related to sugar cane and corn and is grown in arid regions of northeast Africa, India and the southern United States for food, fibre, fuel and ... more |
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Bonn, Germany (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Officials from around the world signed a document establishing the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on Monday at a conference in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany. European countries including France, Germany and Spain were among the 75 signatories. Egypt, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Serbia, Syria and Turkey also signed up to the new centre, said to be the first of its kind ... more C1XS Catches First Glimpse Of X-ray From The Moon 
London UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2009The C1XS X-ray camera, jointly developed by the UK's STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has successfully detected its first X-ray signature from the Moon. This is the first step in its mission to reveal the origin and evolution of our Moon by mapping its surface composition. In orbit around the Moon on the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, C1XS ... more Mumbai horrors to cast shadow over India's national day party 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2009India readied on the weekend elaborate security measures for national day celebrations to be held Monday in the wake of the deadly Islamist militant attacks in Mumbai. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was slated to be chief guest at the Republic Day military parade in the national capital, with India's President Pratibha Patil due to observe the event. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ... more Indian police kill two 'Pakistan militants' near Delhi 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2009Indian police shot and killed two suspected Pakistani militants near the capital New Delhi Sunday, as thousands of troops were deployed on the eve of a national holiday to prevent extremist attacks. Brij Lal, a senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh state, told reporters an anti-terrorist team chased a car carrying two men towards the capital before intercepting it in the suburb of Noida, 20 ... more
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