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Indianapolis 500 Airs Nationwide On XM Satellite Radio Indianapolis IN (SPX) May 19, 2008 
XM Satellite Radio will air extensive coverage of the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 as motorsports fans gear up for "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" on May 25 live from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. XM is the exclusive satellite radio provider of the Indianapolis 500 and the Indy Racing League. The Indianapolis 500 can be heard nationwide on the IndyCar Series Racing channel ... read more
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Analysis: Indian terror cells active
Kolkata, India (UPI) May 19, 2008 A claim of responsibility for last week's terror bombings in the Indian tourist town of Jaipur from a little-known Islamic group has renewed calls for tougher tactics and new laws amid fears that -- despite government reassurances -- terrorist cells are alive and thriving in the country. In an e-mail message Wednesday, a group called the Indian Mujahedin sent images said to prove its ... more Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game 
New Delhi (UPI) May 15, 2008 India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. India's elite Intelligence Bureau sent a report to the Interior Ministry in which it charged that the lack of alertness displayed by the paramilitary ... more Extensive missile site in China revealed by satellite: analyst 
Washington (AFP) May 15, 2008Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles capable of striking Russia or India, a researcher said Thursday. The images from Google Earth show different types of launch pads, command and control facilities, and missile deployment equipment at a large facility in downtown Delingha, said ... more Myanmar survivors wonder: 'Where do they want us to go?' 
Yangon (AFP) May 15, 2008"Where do they want us to go? We have no house any more, and it is raining," says 30-year-old Gangamani, one of thousands of cyclone victims ordered to leave monasteries where they have been sheltering. Some 1,000 people, both Buddhists and ethnic Indian Hindus, have made a makeshift camp in the grounds of a monastery across the river from Myanmar's main city Yangon. But now the military ... more Walker's World: Building with BRICs 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 The concept of the BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- was coined five years ago in a research paper from the Goldman Sachs investment bank. This week, reality takes over from theory as the foreign ministers of the BRIC countries hold their first formal meeting in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. They convene with an agenda that includes the issue of biofuels, food ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 6, 2008 The cyclone tragedy that has devastated the South Asian nation of Myanmar, formerly Burma, has taken at least 22,000 lives -- a figure that looks certain to climb further as relief operations discover more victims. And it once again teaches the sobering lesson that the wrath of Nature can dwarf the worst excesses of Man. The Indian Ocean has been a focus point for nature's wrath in rece ... more Cartosat 2a Puts The World In High Resolution For Indian Government 
Delhi, India (SPX) May 07, 2008High quality imageries acquired from Cartosat-2A and Indian Mini Satellite-1 (IMS-1) were presented to the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Delhi by Dr G Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO along with a team of senior scientists. It may be recalled that Cartosat-2A and IMS-1 were successfully launched by PSLV-C9 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota on April 28, 2008. ... more Brazil, India have 'greenest' consumers, US trails: study 
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2008Inhabitants of Brazil and India have the world's most environmentally-sustainable lifestyle and Americans have the least, according to a new study tracking global attitudes towards consumption and the environment. The survey by the National Geographic Society establishes a "Greendex" -- an index measuring the economic impact of consumer lifestyle choices -- in four key areas: housing, transp ... more ISRO Scientists Meet With Prime Minister 
New Delhi, India (PTI) May 07, 2008Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday lauded Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists behind the successful launch of polar rocket that put a record ten satellites in orbit. A delegation of top space scientists led by ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair presented to Singh a model of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and satellite pictures of the national capital taken by Cartosat ... more |
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Indianapolis, Indiana (AFP) May 4, 2008Hillary Clinton said Sunday she had no regrets about vowing to obliterate Iran if it used a nuclear bomb on Israel, but Barack Obama accused her of George W. Bush-style "bluster." The Democratic White House rivals locked horns over the Islamic republic on separate television shows, two days before their next nominating showdowns in Indiana and North Carolina. Clinton was asked on ABC New ... more Asian vultures may face extinction in India, study warns 
New Delhi (AFP) May 4, 2008Asian vultures may face extinction in India unless a farm drug responsible for their large-scale decimation is banned outright, according to a report Sunday citing researchers. The population of the oriental white-backed vulture has declined by 99.9 percent and the numbers of two other highly-endangered species by 97 percent since 1992 in India, a story in the Hindu newspaper said citing a ... more India urged to copy China at Asian Development Bank meeting 
Madrid (AFP) May 3, 2008India must boost infrastructure spending and reform its labour market as China has done if it wants its economy to grow as fast as that of its Asian neighbour, participants at the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting in Spain said Saturday. "The Chinese manufacturing success story has a lot to do with a physical infrastructure that is better," said economist Bibek Debroy, who has studied ... more Subsystems Of Cartosat-2A, IMS-1 Functioning Satisfactorily 
Bangalore, India (PTI) May 02, 2008The subsystems of Cartosat-2A and Indian Mini Satellite-1 (IMS-1) are functioning satisfactorily, telemetry data received from the satellites has revealed. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) launched the two satellites along with eight nanosatellites successfully on Monday from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota. On Tuesday, the multi-spectral camera onboard ... more
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