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India's BIG Broadcasting Uses AsiaSat 3S Hong Kong (SPX) Jun 23, 2008 
BIG Broadcasting has joined Asia's premium broadcast satellite AsiaSat 3S for its bouquet of television channels which will be serving millions of Indians. Announced by Asia's leading satellite operator, AsiaSatellite Telecommunications, an agreement has been signed for one C-band transponder on AsiaSat 3S. In an effort to boost and strengthen the Group's presence in the media and ... read more
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Chitkara To Debut CUBE 3 On AsiaSat 2
Hong Kong, China (SPX) Jun 23, 2008Asia's leading satellite operator, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) and Chitkara Technologies Limited (Chitkara) of India have announced a lease agreement to supply Chitkara with AsiaSat 2's C-band transponder capacity for the launch of a new television channel called 'CUBE 3' across India. This new channel, scheduled for service launch in July, will be a free to ... more 26 drown, millions displaced by India floods 
Kolkata (AFP) June 20, 2008The death toll from monsoon flooding in eastern India climbed to 26 on Friday, with hundreds of villages cut off and an estimated four million people displaced, officials said. Bridges were washed away and roads and railway tracks submerged by the swirling waters in West and East Midnapore districts, said West Bengal state's finance minister Asim Dasgupta. "Telephone lines were snapped a ... more Essel Group India Chooses AsiaSat 4 To Launch First HITS Platform In India 
Hong Kong, China (SPX) Jun 20, 2008Asia 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 ... more 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 |
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New Delhi (AFP) June 17, 2008The future of a key nuclear energy pact between New Delhi and Washington appeared bleak Tuesday with the Indian government apparently failing to win over sceptical left-wing allies. A communist leader warned that the dominant Congress party would fail in its latest effort to push through the deal, aimed at giving India access to the worldwide nuclear energy trade without signing global ... more New Lessons From The British Royal Navy 
Washington (UPI) Jun 16, 2008 Britain's Royal Navy is seeking to revive its fabled anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, operating skills, and the area it chose to practice them this spring was astride the world's crucial oil supply routes in the Indian Ocean. Jane's, the respected British weapons and armed forces publishing house and news service, reported June 5 that from April 16 through April 20, the Royal Navy carried ... more Indian Army To Train Its Officers For US-Style War In Space 
New Dehli, India (PTI) Jun 17, 2008Set to make forays in use of space applications, the Indian Army will take a leaf out of US forces' experience to train its officers in optimising the effective use of space-based resources to meet its operational requirements. A week after India announced setting up of an Integrated Cell to coordinate all military operations based on space assets, the Army's Directorate of Perspective ... more Flash floods, mudslides kill 25 in India's northeast 
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 |
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Bedford MA (SPX) Jun 10, 2008Spire has announced that it has received a contract from PLG Power Limited (PLG Group) to provide a state-of-the-art, turnkey photovoltaic module assembly line in India. PLG Power Limited is the Energy and Power division of PLG Group, a multifaceted organization involved in manufacturing and agro-based industries located in Mumbai and Kolkata, India. This will be the company's first state ... more CIC Castigates ISRO For Denying Information 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jun 10, 2008The Central Information Commission has castigated the Indian Space Research Organisation for taking a stand that information relating to the Defence Ministry was not a public activity, and asked it to reveal the details to an RTI applicant. "The stand taken in the hearing by respondents ISRO that matters concerning the Ministry of Defence do not concern public activity is absurd. ... more World major economies see new nuclear dawn 
Aomori, Japan (AFP) June 9, 2008Top economic powers have declared that the world is entering a new era of nuclear energy amid rising concerns over high oil prices and global warming, but Germany stood firmly as an exception. The Group of Eight industrial nations got together with China, India and South Korea at the weekend in Aomori, a hub of Japan's nuclear energy industry on the northern tip of the country's main island ... more G8, Asian powers urge oil production hike as prices soar 
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
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