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India, Pakistan leaders agree to kickstart peace talks New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2008 
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari agreed here Wednesday to kickstart an embattled peace dialogue between the two nuclear-armed rivals, with new talks to be scheduled by year's end. The leaders agreed that their foreign secretaries "will schedule meetings of the fifth round of the composite dialogue in the next three months," a joint statement said a ... read more
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India bans Chinese dairy products
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 25, 2008India banned Thursday the import of dairy products from China over concerns they could be contaminated with dangerous chemicals. A government spokesman told AFP the temporary ban was only a preventative measure since India does not import dairy products from China. India joined more than a dozen countries that have ordered bans or taken other steps to curb consumption following a scandal ... more China biggest carbon polluter, world levels at record: scientists 
Paris (AFP) Sept 26, 2008China has leapfrogged the United States as the world's biggest carbon emitter and India is heading for third place, scientists said on Friday in a report that warned global greenhouse-gas levels were scaling record peaks. The report, by a research consortium called the Global Carbon Project (GCP), confirms an estimate that China has become the biggest producer of carbon dioxide (CO2), the pr ... more 46 killed, four million affected in east India floods 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Sept 24, 2008Twenty more people were killed, taking to 46 the death toll from floods which have destroyed tens of thousands of homes in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, officials said Wednesday. The toll rose by 20 since the weekend as the Indian navy deployed men and boats in Orissa, where more than 3.5 million people have been affected by the flooding and 370,000 have had to be evacuated so far ... more IU Sends Innovative Technology To Antarctica To Speed Polar Research 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Sep 24, 2008Environmental scientists studying the world's shrinking polar ice sheets will soon get a substantial boost in computing power thanks to IU's Polar Grid Project. Funded by a $1.96 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Indiana University and Polar Grid partners Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) and the NSF's Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) ... more Nuclear deals in sight as Indian PM heads to US, France 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 22, 2008India's prime minister embarked Monday on a 10-day visit to the United States and France which is expected to mark the country's return to global nuclear commerce after 30 years in the cold. Manmohan Singh, who will also attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York and an India-EU gathering in Marseilles, expects to finalise at least one landmark atomic deal before returning on ... more |
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New Delhi, India (PTI) Sep 19, 2008Weather permitting, India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, may lift off Oct 19 from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, scientists associated with the odyssey indicated Thursday. 'The tentative date is Oct 19,' they said in Bangalore after completing all the work on the cuboid-shaped 590 kg spacecraft that will carry 11 payloads. Meanwhile, the government Thursday approved a sequel ... more US Congress asked to approve Indian nuclear deal this month 
Washington (AFP) Sept 18, 2008The US Congress on Thursday began a series of meetings to consider a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with India, with a call from a senior senator to fast track endorsement of the deal this month. "It would be well advised to approve it this month...rather than waiting till next year," said Democratic Senator Chris Dodd, who chaired a meeting Thursday of the Senate foreign relations ... more Child traffickers arrested in India flood zone: police 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 18, 2008Police in India's flood-hit north said Thursday they had stepped up operations and made several arrests to prevent an increase in child trafficking in the devastated region. The country's worst floods in decades have displaced nearly three million people and triggered mass migration from Bihar, which is among India's poorest states and a source of cheap migrant labour -- including children. ... more China says more talks set with India on border row 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 16, 2008Chinese and Indian officials will meet in Beijing this week for the latest round of talks on their decades-old Himalayan border dispute, an official here said on Tuesday. Chinese diplomat Dai Bingguo will hold talks with Indian national security adviser M.K. Narayanan on Thursday and Friday, foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. India says China occupies 38,000 square ... more |
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Salem, India (PTI) Sep 15, 2008Students of an engineering college here have developed for the first time in the country, two special brushless motors, which will form an important part in the soon to be launched GSLV rocket. These motors were previously being imported by Indian Space Research Organisation. A prototype of this motor was displayed by the students of Sona College of Technology to ISRO scientists at the ... more India wary of being US card in China play: analysts 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 14, 2008The US push to end India's status as a nuclear pariah was partly motivated by a desire to counter China's rise, but New Delhi does not want to get sucked into a US-Sino power play, analysts say. "India does share many US concerns regarding China," said Anupam Srivastava, director at the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia. But New Delhi has conveyed ... more Australia denies China blocking uranium to India 
Canberra (AFP) Sept 12, 2008Australia's foreign Minister Stephen Smith on Friday shot down claims that China is pressing Canberra not to supply Beijing's rival India with uranium for nuclear fuel. Australia has said it will not sell yellowcake to India unless it signs the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), even though the United States has signed a deal to share nuclear technology with India. Smith, who is ... more Govt Approves Modern Navigation Project GAGAN 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Sep 12, 2008In a bid to provide seamless navigation over the Indian airspace and waters, the Indian government has approved the implementation of a Rs 774-crore Global Positioning System (GPS) aided futuristic project. The GPS aided Geo Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) project would place India in a select group of nations, like the US, Europe and Japan, to possess such a system that would not only ... more
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