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Essel Group India Chooses AsiaSat 4 To Launch First HITS Platform In India Hong Kong, China (SPX) Jun 20, 2008 
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and the Essel Group have announced the signing of an agreement for the use of multiple C-band transponders on AsiaSat 4 for a new digital Headend-in-the-Sky (HITS) delivery platform to distribute pay TV signals to all cable operators, serving millions of cable homes throughout India. Through this platform on AsiaSat 4, cable ... read more
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Split over US nuclear deal may trigger early Indian polls
New Delhi (AFP) June 19, 2008India looks headed for early elections due to a worsening split between the ruling Congress party and its left-wing allies over a nuclear deal with Washington, reports and officials said Thursday. A government source told AFP that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared set to go ahead with implementing the pact with the United States, despite fierce objections from the communists who prop ... more Four Pakistani soldiers killed in firing at border with India: military 
Islamabad (AFP) June 19, 2008Four Pakistani soldiers were killed on Thursday in an exchange of fire with unknown attackers at the border with India in disputed Kashmir, the military said. The soldiers were on a routine patrol along the Line of Control, the de facto border with India, when "unknown miscreants" fired at them, military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP. "Two of our soldiers embraced martyrdom ... more China has no plans to 'encircle' India: ambassador 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 18, 2008China has no plans to try and dominate the shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean, its ambassador to India said in Hong Kong Wednesday. "We don't have such an intention to establish a chain to encircle India," said ambassador Zhang Yan at a lunch held by the Asia Society in Hong Kong. "It's not in China's interest to undertake this kind of strategic move. We see India as our partner," he ... more Crunch talks on India-US nuclear deal postponed 
New Delhi (AFP) June 18, 2008Crucial talks between the Indian government and its left-wing allies on a controversial nuclear energy pact with the United States were postponed Wednesday with both sides still at odds over the deal. Neither side gave any reason for the delay but a source close to the talks, who asked not to be named, said left-wing parties were refusing to respond to a government appeal for the deal to go ... more Trips Among The Dynamic Geology Of Indiana And The Ohio River Valley 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 19, 2008The latest geology guidebook published by the Geological Society of America provides a diverse sampling of the geology of the Illinois Basin region. Field excursions detailed herein stem from the 2008 meeting of GSA's North-Central Section in Evansville, Indiana, USA, an area of rich geologic history. Nearby New Harmony, Indiana, served as headquarters for pioneering naturalists, such as ... more |
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Guwahati, India (AFP) June 16, 2008Flash floods and mudslides unleashed by heavy monsoon rains have claimed 25 lives and displaced 200,000 people in northeastern India, officials said Monday. Six people drowned overnight in Assam state as they tried to escape gushing floodwaters in bamboo rafts, state relief and rehabilitation minister Bhumidhar Barman said. "We have reports of six deaths so far and about 200,000 people ... more 70 detained in fresh protests against India fuel hike 
Srinagar (AFP) June 12, 2008Police in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir detained 70 people as protests against a rise in fuel prices announced by the national government continued for a fourth day on Thursday. Police used batons and water cannons to repel government employees shouting "roll back fuel prices" as they tried to march on the office of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar. ... more India PM calls for end to opposition to US nuclear pact 
New Delhi (AFP) June 11, 2008Indian Premier Manmohan Singh Wednesday made a fresh appeal to his government's left-wing allies and the opposition to drop objections to an endangered nuclear energy pact with Washington. Singh, who has been pushing the deal that would allow India to buy technology and power plants without signing global non-proliferation pacts, said he was hopeful it would be finalised soon, the Press ... more Indonesia launches tsunami alert buoys: US embassy 
Jakarta (AFP) June 11, 2008Indonesia launched two tsunami alert buoys with US help Wednesday to boost an early warning system for the country worst hit by the 2004 killer wave, the US embassy said. The devices are part of a 22-buoy system planned for the Indian Ocean, an embassy statement said. "This work is extremely important for ordinary Indonesians who live and work in tsunami-prone areas," US Ambassador ... more |
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Aomori, Japan (AFP) June 8, 2008Eleven nations that guzzle nearly two-thirds of the world's energy called Sunday for an urgent hike in global oil production as host Japan warned the world could plunge into recession. Energy ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) industrial powers met in the northern Japanese city of Aomori with officials from China, India and South Korea in the wake of a record spike in oil prices. ... more ISRO To Release Extensive Satellite Imagery By Year End
New Delhi (SPX) Jun 06, 2008Adding a feather to its cap, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its own satellite imagery on the internet six months from now, rivalling popular mapping service Google Earth. "Our images will be on our website six months from now," ISRO To Release Extensive Satellite Imagery By Year End Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here after receiving the Rammohan Puraska ... more Big energy consumers to gather in Japan as oil prices soar 
Tokyo (AFP) June 5, 2008Eleven nations that guzzle nearly two thirds of the world's energy will hold talks in northern Japan this weekend, seeking ways to secure enough supply and reduce consumption as oil prices hit record highs. The June 7-8 ministerial meeting in Aomori, some 600 kilometres (370 miles) north of Tokyo, brings together China, India, South Korea, and the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations. ... more Duke Energy Indiana Proposes Sweeping Modernization of Its Power Delivery System 
Plainfield IN (SPX) Jun 03, 2008Duke Energy Indiana has proposed a sweeping modernization of its power delivery system including the installation of more than 800,000 new digital "smart meters" -- one for virtually every home and business in each of the 69 counties served by the state's largest utility. The five-year initiative - called "Smart Grid," referring to the power delivery system - would employ extensive digit ... more
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