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Revising Terran History Takes Time Gainesville, FL (SPX) Jul 09, 2008 
Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years.But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion or more years ago, making them at least 500 million years older than commonly thought. The findings appear to remove one of the major obstacles to the Snowball Earth theory that a fr ... read more
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India And France Joint Working Group Meet To Discuss Space
Bangalore (PTI) (SPX) Jul 09, 2008The Joint Working Group of the Indian Space Research Organisation and the French Space Agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) has reviewed the progress of ongoing collaborative programmes at a meeting held in Goa on July 5-6. The status of Megha Tropiques, an Indo-French collaborative satellite project scheduled for launch in 2009 for tropical weather monitoring, was presented du ... more Left-wing parties pull backing for Indian government 
New Delhi (AFP) July 8, 2008A bloc of Indian left-wing parties announced Tuesday they were pulling out their backing for the country's coalition government in protest against a nuclear energy deal with the United States. Their decision, however, was not expected to cause the collapse of the Congress-led government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who last week managed to win support from a regional party to avoid the ... more Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence 
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America - when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and humans - to a cataclysmic comet or asteroid explosion over top of Canada. A comet/asteroid theory advanced by Arizona-based geophysicist Allen We ... more A Microsatellite-Guided Insight Into The Genetic Status Of The Adi Tribe 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2008North-east India has always been a hotspot for population geneticists due to its unique, strategic geographic location and the presence of linguistically, culturally and demographically diverse populations practicing varied occupations (from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture). There are an estimated 532 tribal communities who inhabit the different geographical regions, who vary in ... more Analysis: Controlling Tibet -- Part 2 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 2, 2008 Should China-India relations deteriorate to the verge of military confrontation and the riots in Tibet spread extensively, the first combat units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army to be called to action would be the No. 52 and No. 53 Mountain Brigades under the Tibet Military Region. The No. 52 Brigade, stationed at Linzhi, is highly mechanized and armed with T-92 wheeled armored ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) June 26, 2008India's ruling Congress party has not decided if it will pursue an atomic energy deal with the United States and alienate leftist allies that prop up the government, an official said Thursday. The governing party failed Wednesday to persuade its partners to support the pact, leaving it with the choice of going it alone and risking early elections or ditching the landmark deal altogether. ... more Indian military meets to plug frontline exodus 
New Delhi (AFP) June 26, 2008India's top military brass held a crisis meeting Thursday to jack up military wages and try and stem an exodus of soldiers to the country's flourishing private sector, officials said. The chiefs of the million-plus army, air force and navy held closed-door talks with Defence Minister A.K. Antony and other top officials on tackling the widening wage gap between civilians and men and women in ... more Analysis: Revolt in India rebel group ULFA 
New Delhi (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 Indian security forces said a major revolt that came into the open in United Liberation Front of Assam would help wipe out the banned insurgent group, one of the most dreaded in the militancy-hit Assam state. Two of three armed units of ULFA on Tuesday announced a unilateral cease-fire, marking a major revolt in the group. The two units comprising the dreaded 28th Battalion are the most ... more Lack of rain hits Indian state's power supply 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (AFP) June 26, 2008India's Kerala state has seen vital water stores for power generation dip to their lowest levels in 25 years after much-needed monsoon rains were unexpectedly weak, officials said. The southern state has so far seen almost 40 percent less monsoon rain than last year, the head of the local weather department told AFP, with authorities in Kerala imposing nightly power cuts as a result. ... more |
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Hong Kong (SPX) Jun 23, 2008BIG 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 ... more 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
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