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US, 19 firms on clean-energy trade mission to China, India Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2008 
The United States and 19 US companies will travel to China and India next month on a clean energy and environment trade mission, the Commerce Department said Thursday. US Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian will lead the September 1-12 trade mission, the government's third such mission to the fast-growing Asian powerhouses since April 2007. "The 19 companies participating in this ... read more
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Astra Microwave Wins Order From Indian Meteorological Department
Hyderabad, India (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Astra Microwave Products has announced that it has received an INR 255 million order from the Indian Meteorological Department. The order is for the supply, installation, and commissioning of remote unmanned automatic remote weather stations in 550 locations across India. Scheduled to be installed in 2009, the weather stations will feed live data via satellite to the Met Department's ... more Satyam Launches Mobile Healthcare Program For Rural Indians 
Hyderabad, India (SPX) Aug 27, 2008Satyam Computer Services has announced that it has embarked on a revolutionary program to deliver world-class healthcare to remote villages in India. The public/private partnership between the government of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and Satyam provides a fleet of healthcare vans - mobile health units (MHU) - that visit villages on designated days to deliver healthcare services to ... more 2.5 million trapped after Indian river changes course: govt 
Madhepura, India (AFP) Aug 27, 2008Indian emergency services on Wednesday rushed supplies to 2.5 million people marooned after heavy monsoon rains caused a river to shift its course, a minister said Wednesday. Junior agriculture minister Akhilesh Prasad Singh said one million tonnes of rice and wheat would be doled out after the Kosi river breached its banks and flooded huge swathes of the eastern state of Bihar. ... more Outside View: Racism trumps reason 
Manipal, India (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 Contrary to the expectations of Congress Party boss Sonia Gandhi and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, last week's special meeting in Vienna of the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group ended in deadlock. The meeting had been requested by the United States to approve George W. Bush's quest for a "clean waiver" for the resumption of nuclear trade with India -- commerce that had been ... more One million trapped as Indian river shifts course
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 27, 2008More than one million people have been trapped by floodwaters in eastern India after heavy monsoon showers caused a major river to shift its course, a minister said Tuesday. Massive rains in Bihar state caused the Kosi river to swell, breach its banks and flow through a channel it had previously abandoned. Water levels in the new river, about one mile (1.6 kilometres) across, are not ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 Within the next four months, a first batch of eight Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters will be positioned at India's Tezpur Air Base in the state of Assam, near the border with China, an Indian navy source has revealed. This is almost six months ahead of the timeline reported some time ago in the Indian media. This will be the first time for Su-30MKI fighters to be ... more Two million hit by Indian monsoon, toll reaches 800 
Lucknow, India (AFP) Aug 24, 2008The death toll from monsoon-related accidents reached 800 and two million people have been displaced by flooding following heavy rains across India, officials said on Sunday. At least 26 people died in overnight accidents in northern Uttar Pradesh, taking the toll to 686 in the country's most populous state since the monsoon struck in June, Relief Commissioner G. K. Tandon said. "Several ... more Earthquakes May Endanger New York More Than Thought 
Palisades NY (SPX) Aug 25, 2008A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among other things, they say that the controversial Indian Point nuclear power plants, 24 miles north of the city, sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones. ... more Nuke plant increases NYC earthquake risk 
New York (UPI) Aug 23, 2008 Seismologists said nuclear power plants located 24 miles north of New York increase the risk of serious damage from earthquakes. Columbia University researchers said the Indian Point nuclear power plants sit astride the previously unidentified intersection of two active seismic zones, making the risk of earthquake substantially greater than formerly believed. The findings, publis ... more |
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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
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