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Arctic Heat Wave Stuns Climate Change Researchers Kingston, Canada (SPX) Sep 27, 2007 
Unprecedented warm temperatures in the High Arctic this past summer were so extreme that researchers with a Queen's University-led climate change project have begun revising their forecasts. "Everything has changed dramatically in the watershed we observed," reports Geography professor Scott Lamoureux, the leader of an International Polar Year project announced yesterday in Nunavut by Indian and ... read more
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ESA And India Tighten Relations At IAC 2007
Hyderabad, India (ESA) Sep 26, 2007The 58th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2007) is taking place this week from 24 to 29 September in Hyderabad, India, with the theme 'Touching humanity: Space for improving quality of life'. One of the major space events of the year, this congress brings together some 2000 international space specialists providing a crossroad uniting the world's space agencies, astronautics institutes, ... more Malaysia's Smart Satellite Teleport Plays Role In Tsunami Warning 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (XNA) Sep 20, 2007Malaysia's Smart Satellite teleport has played a role in the tsunami warning recently by providing vital information to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Malaysian Smart Digital Communications Bhd president and chief executive officer Khairuddin Abdul Rahman said Monday. The information was later shared with their Indonesian counterpart as well as the Malaysian Meteorological Department, he ... more Landfill Mining 
Chennai, India (SPX) Sep 19, 2007Retrieving material for composting from open dumps across the developing world could reduce the environmental impact of growing mountains of waste, according to researchers in India, writing today in the Inderscience publication, International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. These days we in the developing world are encouraged to compost our garden and kitchen waste. ... more Indian Institute Of Space Science And Technology (IIST) Inaugurated 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Sep 17, 2007Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), an institute of excellence being established with the objective of offering high quality education in space science and technology to meet the demands of Indian Space Programme, was inaugurated by Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, today (September 14, 2007) at Thiruvananthapuram. Dr B N Suresh, Director, IIST, Prof D Samchandran ... more HARDY Rice: Less Water, More Food 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Sep 17, 2007An international team of scientists has produced a new type of rice that grows better and uses water more efficiently than other rice crops. Professor Andy Pereira at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) has been working with colleagues in India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Mexico and The Netherlands to identify, characterize and make use of a gene known as HARDY that improves key features ... more |
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Bangalore (PTI) Sep 06, 2007INSAT-4CR, India's communication satellite successfully launched on Sunday, was today raised to a perigree of 15,994 kms as planned in the third of its orbit raising manoeuvres. The operation was conducted at 4.35 am with the firing of the 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board for 3140 seconds by commanding the satellite from the Master Control Facility at Hassan in Karnataka, a release ... more India To Build Constellation Of Seven Navigation Satellites 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 05, 2007India 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 ... more 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 |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held its seventh summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It clearly demonstrated the SCO's awareness that the time of closed blocs is over, and the 21st century is an era of cooperation. It also showed that the SCO is working hard to find its way in an avalanche of ideas about its development path and format. The SCO is a regional group ... more India Has Changed The World 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007On August 15, India will celebrate 60 years of independence. Today, we are looking at this event with different eyes. In retrospect, we can see that it has first changed Britain and then the rest of the world. This process is still going on. On August 15, 1947 when Lord Mountbatten was hauling down the British flag in Delhi, many understood the significance of what was happening with a country, ... more India Wants To Launch First Reusuable Space Launcher By 2010 
Bangalore (RIA Novosti) Aug 15, 2007India is planning to launch a reusable spacecraft for the first time in 2010 and to send a mission to Mars as early as 2012, a senior space official said Monday. India has been successfully developing its space program in recent years, regularly launching satellites using its own booster rockets. "Our target [for the first launch] is before 2010," the Press Trust of India news agency quoted ... more South Asia Floods Toll Passes 2000 Mark 
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
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