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Outside View: India's new sub -- Part 1 Moscow (UPI) Jul 17, 2008 
The leasing by India of a Russian Project 971 nuclear submarine built in Komsomolsk-on-Amur is the latest hot news. The agreement, whose significance for Russian-Indian cooperation has yet to be assessed, could have a profound impact on the balance of forces in the region. Russia's role in creating the Indian submarine fleet is hard to overestimate -- Soviet/Russian-built ... read more
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French firm cleared over Indian submarine deal, says official
New Delhi (AFP) July 17, 2008Indian detectives have found no evidence to support allegations of bribery surrounding a deal with a French defence firm to buy Scorpene submarines, an official said Thursday. The Delhi High Court had last year ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into claims kickbacks were involved in the 2.4 billion euro deal. But the CBI has asked the court to close the case because ... more Russian Army Officers Visit Mountain Combat Center In India 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2008A delegation of Russian Ground Forces officers will learn about training troops for mountain warfare during a two-week trip to India that started on Monday, a spokesman for the Russian military said. Deputy commander Lt. Gen. Valery Yevnevich, along with officers from Russia's mountain brigades and the Far Eastern Military Command officer training school, will visit a training center in ... more Brazil agribusiness wants looser ties to China, India in WTO talks 
Brasilia (AFP) July 16, 2008Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector on Wednesday called for the country to step away from an alliance with China and India in WTO talks next week to concentrate on securing immediate farm trade deals. "The most productive sector in the Brazilian economy must not be held back by the drive to secure a greater trade opening for less competitive sectors," the Permanent Forum for Agricultural ... more The Current Biofuel Market In India 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 17, 2008The 'Indian Biofuel Industry' report analyzes the current biofuel market in India. It focuses on the causes for the growing demand of biofuels, the manufacturing technologies for the production of biofuels and government regulations. This report also enumerates the opportunities and challenges faced by the biofuel industry in India along with the current trends, addressing the client needs ... more Analysis: Nuclear revival without Germany 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 Global warming and rising energy prices have sparked a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy -- but not in Germany, where the grand coalition government is still bickering over the planned phase-out of nuclear power by 2021. The United States, China, India, Russia, France, Canada, Britain, Finland, Sweden -- the list of countries aiming to build new nuclear power plants or at least ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) July 14, 2008India is "gravely concerned" over reports suggesting the use of military force against Iran and is strongly against any such action, the foreign ministry said on Monday. There has been concern an attack against Iran could be imminent after it emerged Israel had practised a strike against Iranian nuclear facilities. "India is gravely concerned at these statements threatening the use of ... more Moscow Reacts Positively To US-Indian Nuclear Tango 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 15, 2008It appears that India and the United States have started a mutual "nuclear tango" during the July 7-9 G8 summit at the Toyako resort area in Hokkaido, Japan. Under the proposed deal, New Delhi will gain access to U.S. uranium and nuclear technology. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has told U.S. President George W. Bush that his government is ready to railroad the 2007 U.S.-Indian ... more India says fuel supplies assured under nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) July 13, 2008India defended Saturday a safeguards agreement with the UN atomic energy agency for a sensitive deal on its nuclear reactors, saying it guaranteed uninterrupted fuel supplies for its plants. Government officials said the safeguards agreement -- submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) this week -- ensured there would be no abrupt disruption of fuel supplies for its civilian ... more Indian govt seeks allies ahead of confidence vote 
New Delhi (AFP) July 11, 2008India'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 ... more |
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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 Analysis: Asian navies -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jul 9, 2008 After 10 years of steady effort, both India and China have made significant qualitative changes in their navies, but in terms of submarine capabilities -- the construction of SSNs and SSBNs -- China is now far ahead of India, however. China has built two 094 class SSBNs and two 093 class SSNs, along with JL2 and JL1M submarine-launched ballistic missiles -- SLBMs -- that are ready to ... more China, India rise while US slips in Fortune company rankings 
Washington (AFP) July 9, 2008The number of US firms among the Fortune 500 list of top global companies slipped to the lowest level in over a decade while Chinese, Indian and Mexican firms gained, the magazine reported Wednesday. The business publication said that US-based Wal-Mart Stores remained at the top of the list of the world's biggest companies by revenue at some 378 billion dollars. But the number of US firm ... more
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