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Raytheon Eyes India's Global Navigation System For ISRO, AAI New Delhi, India (PTI) Aug 19, 2008 
A US defence major Raytheon would make a bid for a satellite-based navigation system for the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Raytheon along with its Indian partners would bid for the system wit h its Geosynchronous Augmented Navigation System (GAGAN) project, company's vice president for Airspace Management and Homeland Security Andy Zogg ... read more
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Analysis: India's defense reform -- Part Two
Kolkata, India (UPI) Aug 19, 2008 India's new Defense Procurement Procedure, released in August, is intended to make it easier for foreign companies to invest in the country. The DPP contains an important prevision of previous practices to help achieve this, said Dhiraj Mathur, a defense analyst at consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. He was referring to the removal of mandatory industrial licensing requirement ... more 11 feared missing in Grand Canyon flood are safe: police 
Phoenix, Arizona (AFP) Aug 19, 2008Eleven hikers feared missing after flash flooding that deluged a remote Grand Canyon village on an Indian reservation have been located and are safe, police said Tuesday. A spokesman for Coconino County Sheriff's Department told AFP that the individuals had been found and were accounted for. "It's good news. Yesterday we believed there were 11 people unaccounted for. We are confident ... more Japan signals approval of India-US nuclear deal 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 19, 2008Japan on Tuesday signalled it would approve a nuclear energy deal between India and the United States, raising the chances that the controversial pact will come into force. The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group, which controls the global flow of civilian atomic exports, is expected to meet Thursday in Vienna on the nuclear deal. Objections by any nation would scuttle the pact. Japan, the ... more Reforming The Indian Military Industrial Complex For The 21st Century 
Kolkata, India (UPI) Aug 18, 2008 India's new Defense Procurement Procedure, unveiled early this month, like its predecessor focuses on vitalizing India's indigenous defense capabilities and moving away from the decades-old practice of importing almost all its defense requirements. However, in the attempt to make the country's defense procurement process more transparent in the murky world of arms deals, the ... more 87 dead in north India floods 
Lucknow, India (AFP) Aug 18, 2008At least 87 people have died in northern India following heavy monsoon rains and flooding, officials said Monday. The bulk of the casualties were reported from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, with 73 people killed in the past 48 hours, state revenue secretary Balwainder Kumar told AFP. Most of the deaths happened when houses of the victims collapsed during the downpours, Kumar said. ... more |
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Xinyu City, China (SPX) Aug 14, 2008LDK Solar has announced that it has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to India-based XL Telecom and Energy Limited. Under the terms of the agreement, LDK Solar will deliver approximately 300 MW of multicrystalline silicon solar wafers to XL Telecom and Energy Limited over a five-year period, commencing in the first quarter of 2009 and extending through 201 ... more Indian Army Orders Additional BrahMos Cruise Missiles
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2008The Indian army has ordered an additional batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles from the Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture, the company's CEO said Tuesday. "The army leadership realizes that weaponry such as the BrahMos missiles will ensure victory to the country which posses it in any conflict," Sivathanu Pillai, who is also the managing director of BrahMos Aerospace ... more PTC's Pro/Engineer Used Indian Irrigation Project 
Needham MA (SPX) Aug 13, 2008PTC has announced that Kirloskar Brothers has leveraged Pro/ENGINEER to design a pump engineering solution based on its unique siphon design for the Saurashtra Branch canal, part of the strategic Narmada Dam project in the Western Indian state of Gujurat. State of the art technology coupled with design innovation helped overcome significant terrain, engineering and financial challenges ... more AEP And Duke To Form Joint Venture To Build Transmission 
Columbus OH (SPX) Aug 13, 2008American Electric Power has formed a joint venture company with Duke Energy to build and own new electric transmission assets. Through the 50-50 partnership, AEP and Duke are proposing to build 240 miles of extra-high voltage 765-kilovolt (kV) transmission lines and related facilities in Indiana. The project would link Greentown Station (near Kokomo, Ind.) with Rockport Station ... more |
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New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2008The launch of India's first unmanned mission to the Moon has been postponed until the middle of October, the head of the Indian space program has said. The launch of the Chandrayaan I lunar orbiter by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was originally planned for September 19 but scientists have yet to conduct the thermo-vacuum testing of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) ... more Key US lawmaker threatens to hold up India nuclear deal 
Washington (AFP) Aug 6, 2008A key US lawmaker threatened Wednesday to hold up a landmark US-India nuclear agreement unless nuclear supplier states adopt a provision terminating the deal if India conducted a nuclear test explosion. Howard Berman, chairman of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee, said if the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) did not impose such a condition, the deal could not be a ... more Indian Moon Mission Likely In October 
Chennai, India (PTI) Aug 07, 2008India's "ambitious" unmanned lunar mission 'Chandrayan' is likely to soar into the skies in October second week, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair said on Wednesday. "The satellite integration is almost complete. And we would be entering the thermovac in about a week's time. It takes about 45-50 days for the launch after thermovac, after which we would declare the ... more NASA Data Show African Droughts Linked To Warmer Indian Ocean 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 07, 2008A new study, co-funded by NASA, has identified a link between a warming Indian Ocean and less rainfall in eastern and southern Africa. Computer models and observations show a decline in rainfall, with implications for the region's food security. Rainfall in eastern Africa during the rainy season, which runs from March through May, has declined about 15 percent since the 1980s, according to ... more
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