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Indian govt seeks allies ahead of confidence vote New Delhi (AFP) July 11, 2008 
India's embattled coalition government was grappling for support Thursday to ensure it can win a confidence vote sparked by a withdrawal of support from left-wing parties, officials said. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Congress-led administration lost its majority after a bloc of leftists and communists stopped backing the government because of their staunch opposition to a nuclear deal with ... read more
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The Rise Of The Asian Navies Part Two
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 10, 2008 Russia's Yantar Shipyard currently is building a second batch of three Type 1135.6 FFGs for the Indian navy. The first three vessels of this model were built at the Baltic Sea Shipyard, but the contract for the latest three vessels has been awarded to the Yantar Shipyard, which has no experience building this type of missile frigate. Apparently Russia intends to bail out the ... more Indian state facing famine after rat plague: report 
Manila (AFP) July 10, 2008A million people in northeastern India face famine after rats destroyed most of the rice crop in their state, the International Rice Research Institute has said. The 2007 infestation spread over to the border areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar in early 2008, "increasing fears of widespread food shortages," the Philippines-based institute said. It left the Indian state of Mizoram, home to ... more US welcomes India's decision to move ahead with nuke deal 
Vienna (AFP) July 10, 2008A top US envoy welcomed Thursday India's decision to open up some of its civilian nuclear reactors to UN inspections as a pre-condition for a controversial nuclear cooperation deal between the United States and India. But analysts said the so-called safeguards agreement between India and the International Atomic Energy Agency -- expected to be approved by the UN atomic watchdog's 35-member ... more Revising Terran History Takes Time 
Gainesville, FL (SPX) Jul 09, 2008Even 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 m25-DEC-49illion years older than commonly thought. The findings appear to remove one of the major obstacles to the Snowball Earth theory that a fr ... more Walker's World: Indian nukes and the G8 
Paris (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 Forget about that hollow claim from the Group of Eight summit that the main industrialized nations have agreed to halve carbon emissions by 2050. They promised that 16 years ago at the United Nations' 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. The most important event at the G8 meeting in Hokkaido, Japan, was a meeting on the sidelines between U.S. President George Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmoha ... more |
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Miami (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 India's Reliance Industries Ltd. -- a leading South Asian energy firm -- has signed a joint agreement with Peru's state oil company to explore for oil and gas in the South American country. The deal, signed earlier this week, sought to formalize a partnership that was months in the making, according to Peruvian energy officials, and adds another developing nation to the roster of ... more 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 |
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New Delhi (AFP) June 30, 2008India on Monday released a national plan to tackle climate change with a focus on renewable energy, but stuck by its refusal to specify targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the country will gradually move towards renewable sources of energy and focus on solar energy. "We must pioneer a graduated shift from economic activity based on ... more Russia, India To Share Experience In Training Mountain Troops 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008Russia and India have agreed to exchange knowledge in the training of mountain troops as part of an extensive military cooperation program, an aide to Russia's Ground Forces commander said on Tuesday. India's Chief of Army Staff, General Deepak Kapoor, arrived in Moscow on Monday on a five-day visit to Russia. He met Tuesday with Russia's Ground Forces commander, Gen. Alexei Maslov, to ... more India govt still undecided on US nuclear pact: officials 
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
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