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Outside View: India buys Russian -- Part 1 Moscow (UPI) Mar 18, 2008 
On March 11 Russia and India signed a contract for the modernization of India's MiG-29s. After the modernization the machines, delivered to India by the former Soviet Union, will remain in service for another 20-25 years with greatly enhanced combat characteristics.
Almost simultaneously, the media reported an agreement between the two countries on the modernization of the Russian ... read more
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India govt, allies to hold US nuclear deal talks in April
New Delhi (AFP) March 18, 2008India's government said Monday it would hold more talks in April with its communist allies in a bid to move forward with a contentious nuclear pact with the United States. Next month's talks will focus on a draft deal worked out between New Delhi and the International Atomic Energy Agency that is essential to concluding the deal with Washington. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee ... more Signet Solar Expands Manufacturing Capacity With India Plant 
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2008Signet Solar has announced plans to locate its second manufacturing site in the Sriperembudur Special Economic Zone near Chennai, India. Signet Solar's decision to expand manufacturing in India follows more than $400 million in advance orders for the first three years of production. The German plant, scheduled to start production by Q3 2008, will have a total annual production capacity of 60 MW. ... more US firm, CEO admit weapon, nuclear-linked export violations 
Washington (AFP) March 13, 2008A US company and the Indian head of an international firm have admitted to violating laws on export of weapons technology and nuclear power testing equipment to India, the US Justice Department said Thursday. Decade-long US sanctions over illegal Indian nuclear tests prohibit US-based companies from exporting certain goods and services to India. Parthasarathy Sudarshan, the Indian CEO of ... more Russia offers India aviation secrets in fighter contract bid 
Moscow (AFP) March 14, 2008Russia is ready to hand India military aircraft engineering secrets in a bid to win a 12-billion dollar (7.65-billion euro) aviation contract tender, Interfax agency reported Friday. "If the Indian government decides to buy the MiG-35 (fighter), we will transfer to India the key technologies used in these aircraft including fifth generation technologies," manufacturers MiG said in a statement ... more World condemns China as Olympic doubts grow 
Paris (AFP) March 15, 2008Taiwan led sweeping condemnation Saturday of China's brutal crackdown on protestors in Tibet and accused Beijing of trying to gloss over its rights record with Olympic sheen. About 30 people have been killed during unrest in Lhasa, according to the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, although China's state-run Xinhua news agency earlier put the figure at 10, citing government officials. ... more |
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Bangkok (AFP) March 13, 2008A top Thai meteorologist, tasked with issuing tsunami alerts to avoid a repeat of the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster, said Thursday he would quit, complaining of a lack of government support. Smith Dharmasaroja, the chief of the National Disaster Warning Centre, said he would tender his resignation to the science and technology minister. "We don't have enough support from the government," ... more BMD Focus: BrahMos for Israel? 
Washington (UPI) Mar 12, 2008 India's success in co-producing the Mach 2.8 BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with Russia raises the question as to whether New Delhi would be willing or able to sell that technology to Israel -- which urgently needs it. And it also raises the question of whether Russia would allow India to sell such technology well in advance of current U.S. cruise missile systems to a close U.S. all ... more Microinsurance for tsunami-hit Indian region 
Berlin (AFP) March 12, 2008One of the world's largest private insurers plans to offer natural disaster and accident insurance in parts of India hit by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami for under 10 euro cents (15 US cents) a month. The microinsurance project, announced this week by Germany's Allianz and aid agency CARE International, hopes to attract 200,000 customers aged 18 to 70 within a year among vulnerable people in ... more Disasters killed 20,000 in 2007: study 
Zurich (AFP) March 11, 2008Natural and man-made disasters killed 20,000 people in 2007 and cost the world economy more than 70 billion dollars (45 billion euros), reinsurer Swiss Re said Tuesday. The world was hit by 142 natural catastrophes and 192 man-made disasters in 2007, the company said in a report, with most deaths in Bangladesh, India, China and Pakistan as a result of heavy flooding and cyclones, the report ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Mar 07, 2008The rapid development of the BrahMos joint Indian-Russian supersonic cruise missile project documents important and usually overlooked truths about the triangular Russian-U.S.-Indian strategic relationship. First - despite all the optimism of the Bush administration and all its efforts over the past seven years - India remains fundamentally allied to Russia rather than the United States ... more Super Hornets For India With A Carrier On The Side 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 10, 2008The $1.5 billion contract signed by Russia's Sevmash Corp. to refit the aircraft carrier or air capable cruiser Admiral Gorshkov for the Indian navy hugely underestimated the true costs of modernization.The plunge of the dollar and the subsequent surge in prices of equipment and skilled labor, as well as high requirements set by the Indian navy, made the project unrealizable. ... more Indian minister rejects snap polls amid US nuke deal trouble 
New Delhi (AFP) March 8, 2008India's foreign minister Saturday ruled out early polls after new threats by the government's communist allies to withdraw their support if the ruling party concludes a nuclear pact with Washington. Describing the leftist bloc's warning as a "known position," Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said: "I do not visualise that anybody is thinking of early elections. "None of the coalition ... more BrahMos-2 Tests Mark Major Progress On Indian Cruise Missile
Washington DC (UPI) Mar 06, 2008The Indian defense establishment successfully tested a missile of great significance Tuesday. According to an official statement from the Indian Defense Ministry, "A naval version of the BrahMos cruise missile was successfully tested off Andamans coast this morning." "The missile was launched from the decks of INS Rajput at 10:30 a.m. and precisely hit a land target in one of the island ... more
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