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Analysis: India mulls new probe agency New Delhi (UPI) May 21, 2008 
Worried over its failure to effectively stop the growing incidence of terror attacks, Maoist violence and white-collar crime, India is considering the establishment of a federal agency to investigate crimes having countrywide implications.
Successive Indian governments, police, security and intelligence agencies have deliberated establishing a federal investigating agency but have faile ... read more
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India, Pakistan sign prisoner agreement
Islamabad (AFP) May 21, 2008Nuclear rivals India and Pakistan signed a pact Wednesday to give consular access to each others' prisoners but made no breakthrough in their dispute over the Himalayan region of Kashmir. Foreign ministers from both sides wrapped up the latest round of the four-year-old negotiations between the feuding neighbours, which resumed this week after a hiatus of several months caused by political ... more Indianapolis 500 Airs Nationwide On XM Satellite Radio 
Indianapolis IN (SPX) May 19, 2008XM 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 ... more 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 |
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Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) May 7, 2008India successfully tested a nuclear-capable missile Wednesday that can hit targets deep inside China, joining the ranks of nations possessing intermediate-range missile capacity, the defence ministry said. It marked the third test of the Agni-III missile - India's longest-range ballistic missile - and was staged "to establish the repeatability of the missile's performance," defence ministr ... more NASA Nasa Satellite Captures Image Of Cyclone Nargis Flooding In Myanmar 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2008The first cyclone of the 2008 season in the northern Indian Ocean was a devastating one for Myanmar (Burma). According to reports, Cyclone Nargis made landfall with sustained winds of 130 mph and gusts of 150-160 mph, which is the equivalent of a strong Category 3 or minimal Category 4 hurricane. However news reports now indicate that over 100,000 people may have been killed, with tens of thousands more missing as the full scale of disaster become apparent. ... more Analysis: Cyclone shows nature's power 
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 |
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Washington (UPI) May 5, 2008 Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face their high-noon showdown on Tuesday in Indiana and North Carolina: The results of those two primary elections could prove the decisive turning point of the long race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. Abraham Lincoln famously said at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War that he wanted God on his side, but he had to have ... more Energtek And Confidence Petroleum Sign Exclusivity Pact To Commercialize ANG Technology 
Valley Stream NY (SPX) May 06, 2008Energtek and Confidence Petroleum India have announced the signing of an exclusivity pact to commercialize Energtek's proprietary ANG technology supply solutions in India and surrounding nations. The agreement will grant the companies' recently formed joint venture exclusive rights to sell Natural Gas through Energtek's proprietary Fast Interchangeable Tanks, and Low-pressure Mobile Pipeline sys ... more Clinton has no regrets about threat to 'obliterate' Iran 
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
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