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India Completes Talks On Huge Warplane Deal New Delhi (AFP) June 19, 2007 
India has completed negotiations over an order for 126 fighter jets that could cost up to nine billion dollars, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Monday. But the minister did not say which of the Russian, US and European rivals were best placed to win what arms industry sources have described as the world's biggest fighter plane contract in 15 years. According to industry sources, the ... read more
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Suni Williams Sets New Record For Women In Space
Washington (AFP) Jun 16, 2007A US astronaut of Indian heritage made history early Saturday when she set a new record for the longest uninterrupted space flight by a woman. At 1:47 am (0547 GMT), International Space Station (ISS) engineer Suni Williams surpassed the 188-day, 4-hour mark set by her compatriot Shannon Lucid in 1996, according to US space officials. It was not the first record set by Williams ... more World Desertification Day Puts Spotlight On Neglected Crisis 
Paris (AFP) June 15, 2007The United Nations on Sunday sounds a loud alarm about desertification, warning that global warming is helping to drive the onward march of parched land and, in years to come, millions of people could be driven from their homes. Of six billion humans, nearly a fifth are threatened directly or indirectly by desertification, experts warn ahead of the UN's annual World Day to Combat ... more UN Secretary General Points To Climate Change As Partly Behind Darfur Disaster 
Washington (AFP) June 16, 2007UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that the slaughter in Darfur was triggered by global climate change and that more such conflicts may be on the horizon, in an article published Saturday. "The Darfur conflict began as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change," Ban said in a Washington Post opinion column. UN statistics showed that rainfall declined some 40 ... more Indian Villagers Oppose Uranium Mines 
Shillong (AFP) India, June 17, 2007Villagers are fighting back against plans to mine uranium in northeast India, saying it will put their health at risk and destroy the environment. Residents voiced opposition at this week's hearing into the state-run Uranium Corporation of India Ltd's plan to mine in hilly, tribal-run areas. News of the hearing by Meghalaya state's pollution control board, held in a remote village north ... more The Space Junk Threat Complexity Part 2 
Moscow (UPI) June 14, 2007Currently, 44 radiation sources from Russia are parked in the "burial orbit" of space. They are: two satellites with unseparated nuclear power units (Cosmos-1818 and Cosmos-1867), fuel assemblies and 12 closed-down reactors with a liquid metal coolant, 15 nuclear-fuel assemblies and 15 fuel-free units with a coolant in the secondary cooling loop. They are to spend no less than 300 to 400 passive ... more |
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Gabala, Azerbaijan (AFP) Jun 08, 2007For the people who live in its shadow, the towering Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan is more than just a bargaining chip in US-Russian wrangles over missile defence. A product of the Cold War, the station was originally used to monitor US military activity around the Indian Ocean and continues to be operated by Russia. On Thursday it was thrust into the spotlight when Russian President V ... more India To Get Revamped Aircraft Carrier From Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2007In early May, an Indian naval delegation headed by Vice Admiral Birinder Singh Randhawa, Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition at the Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defense (Navy), visited Severodvinsk, a major submarine construction centre in the Arkhangelsk Region, northern Russia. In spite of cold temperatures, piercing winds and snowfalls, the visit proved very fruitfu ... more Signet Solar Unveils Plans For Thin-Film Solar Module Manufacturing In India 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Signet Solar announced plans to establish significant thin-film solar module manufacturing capabilities in India. Signet Solar's India announcement follows plans unveiled last month for a manufacturing and development plant in Dresden, Germany. Signet Solar is a global company founded to design, develop and manufacture large area, low cost, thin-film silicon solar photovoltaic (PV) modules. ... more Major Developing Nations Lukewarm On G8 Climate Goals 
Berlin (AFP) Jun 07, 2007The leaders of five major developing nations on on Thursday signalled they would not bow to pressure from the Group of Eight to commit to binding targets in the fight against global warming. Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa insisted ahead of talks with G8 leaders on Friday that their "different capacities and interests" must be considered when tackling climate change. ... more |
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Bangalore, India (SPX) Jun 04, 2007The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is scheduled to launch its communication satellite INSAT- 4CR as a replacement to INSAT-4C which was reduced to debris during its unsuccessful launch last year. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here this week that the replacement satellite would be launched in September 2007. ... more Huge Waves From One Storm Slam Coasts Some 6000 Km Apart 
Paris (ESA) Jun 01, 2007Huge waves that struck Reunion Island and coastlines across Indonesia earlier this month all originated from the same storm that occurred south of Cape Town, South Africa, and were tracked across the entire Indian Ocean for some 10 000 kilometres over a nine-day period by ESA's Envisat satellite. Waves reaching up to 11 metres devastated France's Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean when it ... more Amazon Tribesman Takes Rainforest Message To Japan 
Tokyo (AFP) May 31, 2007An Amazon tribal leader warned Thursday that the world will "destroy itself" unless nations stop clearing rainforests and voiced anger that his message is falling on deaf ears. Taking his campaign to the world's second-largest economy, Raoni Metyktire, a leader of the Kayapo Indians in Brazil, said Amazon nature was falling victim to development, mining and farming. "I have met with presid ... more US Sees Technical Delay In India Nuclear Pact 
Washington (AFP) May 31, 2007The United States on Thursday again blamed "some technical issues" for delays in a nuclear energy deal with India but insisted it was still "committed" to the unprecedented agreement. "I can't give you a sense on the final timing, but, look, the government's clearly committed to it," White House spokesman Tony Snow said as negotiators from both sides held talks in New Delhi. Chief US negot ... more
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