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India's Moon Mission Pushed To July First Week Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 26, 2008 
India's first planetary mission, Chandrayaan-1, has now been rescheduled to take place in the first week of July as the mission personnel work overtime to sort out payload integration and launch-related issues. "We are targeting the end of June. We will try to make it in the first week of July," a senior scientist associated with the Rs 386 crore moon mission told PTI here on Monday on condition ... read more
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Poland's Bumar says it will sign 1.2-billion-dollar arms deal with India
Warsaw (AFP) Feb 25, 2008Polish state-controlled arms company Bumar on Monday announced it was poised to sign a 1.2-billion-dollar (809-million-euro) deal to supply military equipment to India. "We are expecting to sign contracts worth around 1.2 billion dollars," a spokeswoman for Bumar, Kamila Walczak, told AFP. She declined to elaborate. According to the Polish newspaper Dziennik, Bumar has clinched six ... more Calm in Indian Kashmir, but Pakistan still eyed with suspicion 
Srinagar (AFP) Feb 23, 2008There was a time when Indian soldiers guarding the Line of Control that cuts through mountainous Kashmir could barely catch a wink of sleep. At the height of the Muslim insurgency against Indian rule over a part of the picturesque Himalayan region, scores of militants would sneak in from Pakistan, bringing daily gun battles, bombings and suicide strikes. Eighteen years after the revolt b ... more India to host next military exercise with China: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 24, 2008India will host the second joint military exercises with China, as the neighbours continue to mend ties after a brief but bitter border war in 1962, a report said Sunday. The first-ever military manoeuvres between the world's most populous nations were held in China in December, when about 200 Indian and Chinese troops jointly "took out" a group of supposed terrorists along their border. ... more Digital Angel Secures Contract With Shipping Corporation Of India 
St. Paul MN (SPX) Feb 22, 2008Digital Angel has announced its Indian distributor, SHM Shipcare of India, has been awarded a contract by the Shipping Corporation of India to supply 200 ships with the Company's McMurdo SMARTFIND emergency position indicating rescue beacons. The contract also includes servicing. McMurdo Sales and Marketing Director Jeremy Harrison commented, "We believe our EPIRBs are a vital ... more Tens of thousands camp out after Indonesian quake: official 
Jakarta (AFP) Feb 21, 2008Tens of thousands of people camped outside their homes on the Indonesian island of Simeulue after a 7.5-magnitude quake that killed three, an official said Thursday. The quake hit just off the remote island located near Sumatra on Wednesday, triggering panic across the region lashed by the earthquake-triggered 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed 168,000 people in Indonesia. ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Feb 20, 2008India must complete by July all steps needed to conclude a nuclear technology deal with Washington to ensure the US Congress approves it before the presidential polls, three US senators said on Wednesday. The India-US civilian nuclear energy deal has been held up due to stiff opposition from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Communist allies who prop up the minority Congress-led government. ... more Analysis: India's Asian Security plan 
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 19, 2007 In a move to check the spread of terrorism in Asia, India has suggested a three-part strategy to tackle the challenge. "What we need is a three-pronged strategy to meet effectively various challenges relating to security confronting the Asian continent," India's Defense Minister A.K. Antony said. India's new strategy for Asian nations spells out three stages. First, to maintain a ... more Arming India In The Early 21st Century Part One 
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 19, 2007 All participants in the DefExpo-2008 arms show, which opened in New Delhi on Feb. 16, are bound to see the beginnings of a revolution in the Indian military-industrial complex. This revolution is certain to acquire global dimensions, because India is in the Top 10 in arms spending -- in the five-year period from 2007 to 2012 the New Delhi government will buy $30 billion worth of weapon ... more Kalashnikovs to be 'made in India': Russian firm 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 19, 2008India could soon begin producing "original" Kalashnikov assault rifles under licence and stop buying knock-offs of the ubiquitous weapon, a Russian firm said Tuesday. Speaking at the end of a four-day weapons fair in New Delhi, Izhmash JSC said it was negotiating with India on the local production of the guns to equip India's ill-armed security establishment. "India should use high quali ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Feb 18, 2008India should be deeply concerned about the possibility of Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of extremists, a top official was reported as saying Monday. "The nature of the dangers which nuclear weapons pose has dramatically intensified with the growing risk that such weapons may be acquired by terrorists..." Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's special envoy Shyam Saran said. ... more Giant Frog Jumps Continents 
London, UK (SPX) Feb 19, 2008A giant frog fossil from Madagascar dubbed Beelzebufo or `the frog from Hell' has been identified by scientists from UCL (University College London) and Stony Brook University, New York. The discovery of the 70 million year-old fossil frog, of a kind once thought unique to South America, lends weight to a new theory that Madagascar, India and South America were linked until late in the Age of ... more India opens massive weapons fair, denies arming for war
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 16, 2008A massive defence fair opened in India's capital Saturday, with hundreds of global weapons firms competing for billions of dollars of sales to one of the world's largest armies and biggest spenders. Some 450 firms from countries including the United States, Russia, Britain, Russia and Israel are displaying their latest hardware to technology-hungry India, the top arms buyer among emerging ... more India to relax arms purchase rules: official 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 17, 2008India, which plans to purchase billions of dollars worth of military hardware in the next five years, will soon relax strict rules on arms imports, officials say. A new Defence Procurement Policy, or DPP, will be unveiled by April, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Saturday at a defence fair in the capital. "We have been fine-tuning and improving the DPP based on periodical reviews ... more
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