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India To Build Constellation Of Seven Navigation Satellites Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 05, 2007 
India plans to build a constellation of seven geo-stationary satellites at a cost of Rs 1,600 crore to meet the navigational system requirements in cars, trains and aircraft. "Design (of the satellites) is more or less complete. We are in the process of building the first proto model," Secretary in the Department of Space G Madhavan Nair said. "First launch will take place around 2010. We ... read more
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India Lofts GEO Bird Using Powerful New Domestic Built Launcher
Sriharikota, India (SPX) Sep 02, 2007India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04, had a successful launch at 18.20 hours September 2nd from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota and it placed India's INSAT-4CR into the Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. This was the fifth flight of GSLV and the fourth successful one. INSAT-4CR is now orbiting the Earth in GTO with a perigee ... more All Set For GSLV-F04 Take-Off On Sept 02; Countdown Starts Today 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 30, 2007The countdown for the launch of a rocket from Sriharikota, about 100 km from here, carrying India's communication satellite INSAT-4CR, will start today. "The countdown for the launch will start today afternoon," ISRO sources told PTI. The 49-metre tall rocket will be launched at 4.21 p.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, they said. ... more India To Launch INSAT-4CR From Sriharikota On Sept 01 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 21, 2007India is planning to launch its latest communication satellite, INSAT-4CR, from Sriharikota spaceport on September 1, ISRO sources said. "INSAT-4CR is expected to be launched at around 4.30 pm on September one," sources in the Indian Space Research Organisation, headquartered here, said. This spacecraft is identical to INSAT-4C, which was lost during the unsuccessful launch of Geo-synchron ... more Indian PM Says Government Committed To Both Solar And Nuclear Power 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007India's government is committed to the development of both nuclear and solar power, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday. The premier has come under pressure from communist allies in parliament over a nuclear energy deal with the United States, which is set to give India access to U.S. nuclear fuel and equipment for the first time since the 1970s. The communists, who believe the deal ... more Male Elephants Get Photo IDs From Scientists 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2007Asian elephants don't carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India's Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive of individual elephants, which can help save them as well. The researchers have developed a unique "photographic capture-recapture" survey method that identifies individu ... more |
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Patna, India (AFP) Aug 09, 2007The death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in decades passed 2,000 Thursday even as torrents of muddy water receded from millions of acres of farmland and rains shifted west. Thousands of villages remained under water and threatened by disease, while millions were still displaced, mainly in India and Bangladesh, where the severe floods also destroyed valuable crops. The ... more Indian Village Under Water Since 1995 
Barabih, India (AFP) Aug 09, 2007Thousands of villages in India's Bihar state have been flooded for the last two weeks, but one hamlet has been under at least a foot of water for the last 12 years. Since 1995, Barabih residents have either got used to living with floods, or left. In fact about 75 percent of the population has fled, leaving behind 1,400 hardy souls. "We have been campaigning for a almost decade for the aut ... more Indian PM's Communist Allies Reject Landmark US Nuke Deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Key communist allies of India's coalition government rejected a civilian nuclear deal with the United States on Tuesday, warning Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against pushing ahead. A group of communist parties that support the Congress party-led coalition asked Singh not to go ahead with the complex deal known as the 123 agreement because it requires several steps in tandem by both nations befo ... more ISRO To Build Nano-Satellite Platform, Eyes Overseas Business 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 09, 2007India's space agency will next year launch a special platform to put into space miniature satellites catering to the needs of developing countries and the domestic scientific community, its chief said today. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. "We are trying ... more |
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Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 07, 2007More rain and blocked roads have delayed efforts to help 300,000 people in southern Nepal hit by major flooding, amid fears of a rise in water-borne illnesses, officials said Tuesday. "We are concerned about water-borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid," Arjun Bahadur Singh, Nepal's health ministry spokesman, told AFP. "There is no shortage of medicine. However, accessibility is a p ... more Indian Boat Owners Exploit Floods To Make Money 
Madhubani, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Yamuna Devi and her children clung to a tree, waving desperately at a passing boat to rescue them. It paddled off as she had no money to pay for a ride to safety in India's flooded Bihar state. "Pay or perish," the boatman screamed, mumbling obscenities as she numbly stared at the retreating vessel filled with people who had paid 40 rupees (one dollar) each for a ride in the state's cut-off Madh ... more Rivers Recede But Millions Go Hungry In Flooded South Asia
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007The toll from severe floods across South Asia soared to nearly 1,900 Tuesday and although water levels in the region's swollen rivers started to recede, millions of people still faced hunger. Aid workers struggled to deliver supplies to some of the 28 million people displaced across India, Bangladesh and Nepal by the worst monsoon-triggered flooding in decades, with some areas unreachable due to ... more India To Set Up Largest Asian Telescope In Himalayas In 2012 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A vast telescope to be made by Russian and Belgian firms will be installed in India's Himalayas in 2012, the director of an Indian research institute said Monday. Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images," said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. An optical gla ... more
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