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Outside View: India's new sub -- Part 2 Moscow (UPI) Jul 18, 2008 
When the Indian government raised the issue of leasing a nuclear submarine from Russia, it focused negotiations on a multirole SSN, Project 971 Shchuka-B, known in the West as Akula, then under construction in the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Like the previous Indian SSN, it was rechristened Chakra. On June 11, 2008, it started dockside trials. The submarine is ... read more
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Indian govt faces uncertain future as confidence vote looms
New Delhi (AFP) July 19, 2008The future of India's government and a controversial atomic energy deal with Washington hang in the balance this week with the coalition facing a confidence vote seen as being too close to call. The Indian parliament opens debate on Monday and is expected to decide Tuesday whether the Congress-led government, grappling for support after being ditched by its communist allies, will stay in off ... more 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 ... more 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 |
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Vienna (AFP) July 14, 2008The UN atomic watchdog's board of governors will meet on August 1st to discuss a draft safeguards agreement with India, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. US President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh unveiled a controversial agreement in 2005 to share civilian nuclear technology, which would see India enter the fold of global nuclear commerce after ... more APSCC 2008 Satellite Conference And Exhibition On The Move Towards Jeju Island 
Seoul, Korea (SPX) Jul 15, 2008The satellite industry in the Asia-Pacific region is "on the move" with increasing demand for Direct-to-Home (DTH) services in India and China and with a number of broadband services via satellite significantly increasing in Asian countries including Australia. Healthy growth of DTH service in Asia has been projected for this year as more transponders are available with lower IRD cost, and ... more India warns against any attack on Iran 
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 |
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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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