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Chandrayaan-I Set For Launch Later This Year: Kasturirangan New Delhi, China (PTI) Aug 21, 2008 
India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I is set for a late October or an early December launch, noted space scientist and former ISRO chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan said. The spacecraft, which will carry five Indian and six international experiments, has been assembled and undergoing a series of tests, he said. The unmanned mission, which will orbit the moon for two years, is ... read more
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India nuclear deal could trigger arms race: US lawmakers
Washington (AFP) Aug 20, 2008A nuclear energy deal between the United States and India could fuel an arms race with Pakistan unless it is amended to ensure New Delhi is banned from producing new weapons-grade material and from conducting nuclear test explosions, two US lawmakers said Wednesday. The two lawmakers called on the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group to insist on amending the agreement when it meets to consider ... more India Eyes New-Generation Russian Tank 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2008India could consider plans to produce a new-generation tank jointly with Russia, the managing director of the BrahMos Aerospace joint venture said on Tuesday. Sivathanu Pillai said that while the new tank had yet to be developed, it could be built in Russia. He offered no indication of when the project could be launched, however. Russian experts earlier said Russia and India could ... more Raytheon Eyes India's Global Navigation System For ISRO, AAI 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Aug 19, 2008A 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 ... more 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 |
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 18, 2008India's atomic energy body has short-listed US, Russian and French firms for nuclear power projects once the country gets the green light to enter global atomic commerce, a report said Monday. The Hindu newspaper said the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has selected US giant Westinghouse Electric, US-Japanese alliance GE-Hitachi, Russia's Rosatom and France's Areva for potential orders as ... more Indian PM Aims For The Stars And The Moon 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Aug 18, 2008Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India hopes to send a spacecraft to the moon this year and called it 'an important milestone'. that India must reach soon. Speaking from the ramparts of the historic Red Fort in Delhi on Friday as a part of the country's 61st Independence Day celebrations, the Prime Minister said, "This year we hope to send an Indian spacecraft, Chandrayaan, to ... more Japan pressured to oppose US-India nuclear deal 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 15, 2008Anti-nuclear campaigners launched a campaign Friday to press nuclear energy suppliers to stop an accord between India and the United States, saying it would shatter anti-proliferation efforts. A loose coalition including activists and scholars focused efforts on Japan, which has been non-committal on the deal that would give India access to nuclear technology without signing the Non-Proliferation ... more LDK Signs Five-Year Wafer Supply Agreement With XL Telecom And Energy 
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 |
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Tokyo (AFP) Aug 8, 2008A senior US official on Friday urged nuclear supplier states, including Japan, to support the nuclear deal between India and the United States. The plea came as the Nuclear Suppliers Group of 45 nations that export nuclear fuel and technology consider whether to approve a deal under which the US will provide energy-starved India with civilian nuclear fuel and technology. "We certainly ... more Australia to work with China to revive world trade talks: PM 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 8, 2008The Australian and Chinese trade ministers will work together to attempt to revive the global trade talks which collapsed last month, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Friday. The latest Doha round of World Trade Organisation negotiations, which saw emerging powers such as India, China and Brazil take centre stage, fell apart in July in a potentially devastating blow to millions of the world's ... more Moon Mission To Give Global Footing To Indian Scientists
Mumbai, India (PTI) Aug 08, 2008The 'Chandrayaan mission' will give Indian scientists an oppurtunity to become international players in space expedition, giving them an equal footing with their global partners, a top space scientist has said. "We must go to the moon and this is important because it gives an opportunity for Indian scientists to become international players," K Kasturirangan, Rajya sabha memeber and former ... more India Postpones First Lunar Mission Until Mid-October 
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
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