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India To Have New Launchpad For Proposed Manned Mission Sriharikota, India (PTI) Oct 08, 2008 
India plans to a have a new launchpad to undertake its proposed human space flight (manned mission) programme, ISRO officials said. A project report on the human space flight is ready and is awaiting final approval from the government, Director Satish Dawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, M P Dathan said. He said the indigenously built geosynchronous launch vehicle will be upgraded to ... read more
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BMD Watch: BrahMos ALCM planned
Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2008 Flush with success on developing an air-launched supersonic cruise missile -- ALCM -- together, Russia and India have agreed to produce a more ambitious hypersonic one. Sivathanu Pillai, chief executive officer of the Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture, announced the project in New Delhi on Sept. 29. "Today, at a meeting of the Russian-Indian ... more India to launch unmanned lunar mission this month 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Oct 6, 2008India will launch its first lunar mission on October 22 from southern India, a top official from the country's space agency said Monday. The announcement came a week after Asian rival China said it was setting its sights on a manned trip to the moon after completing a historic mission that included the country's first space walk. "We have set October 22 as the tentative date for the ... more Walker's World: Europe fails to act 
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2008 Leaders of the four big European economies -- Germany, Britain, France and Italy -- met in Paris Saturday and failed to come up with any kind of common European solution to the financial crisis that is battering their banks. Instead, they pinned their hopes on a vague plan for a wider international summit next month to include the Group of Eight countries plus China, India, Brazil ... more India tilts to the US with nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 4, 2008India and the United States promised Saturday to sign soon a nuclear cooperation deal which New Delhi said "opened the door for India" to the global nuclear market and tied its future to Washington's. Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee and visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters that last-minute hitches had derailed the scheduled signing of the agreement but both ... more India to seal big-ticket military deals 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 3, 2008India said on Friday it was gearing up to seal military contracts worth billions of dollars including a massive fighter jet deal which has prompted a dogfight among global aeronautical giants. India's move to buy 126 fighter jets worth 12 billion dollars was in its final stages with evaluations of six shortlisted aircraft set to begin next year, Air Chief Marshal Fali Major told a news confe ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 1, 2008A landmark US-India nuclear deal endorsed by the US Congress is a rare foreign policy success for US President George W. Bush and sets the stage for improved ties between the world's two largest democracies, experts say. It will help India provide power to its rapidly growing but energy starved economy in return for commitments on global nuclear non-proliferation norms. The deal also ... more Rice to travel to India, Kazakhstan 
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to India and Kazakhstan from Friday, including for talks in New Delhi about the landmark US-India civilian nuclear agreement passed by Congress, the State Department said Thursday. Rice "will travel to India and Kazakhstan on October 3rd through the 5th," department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. In India, she will meet with ... more Pakistan PM calls for US nuclear deal like India's 
Multan, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 2, 2008Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday demanded a civilian nuclear agreement with the United States after Washington signed a similar deal with arch-rival India. The US Senate late Wednesday endorsed a landmark US-India nuclear pact, removing the final legislative hurdle for resumption of civilian nuclear trade between the two countries after three decades. Pakistan, the ... more US Senate passes Indian nuclear deal 
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008The US Senate has endorsed a landmark US-India nuclear agreement, removing the final legislative hurdle for resumption of civilian nuclear trade between the two countries after three decades. Senators voted 86-13 late Wednesday to give overwhelming approval to the deal lifting a ban on civilian nuclear trade imposed after India first conducted a nuclear test explosion in 1974. ... more |
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Mogadishu (AFP) Oct 1, 2008The US Navy on Wednesday kept up the pressure on Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian cargo shipment of tanks and other weapons, as the European Union agreed an anti-piracy operation in the region. Warships from the United States and other navies have blockaded the MV Faina in a port off Somalia's Indian Ocean coast, where the pirates who captured it are demanding a 20-million-dollar payment ... more Coral-killing starfish turns out to be four species, not one 
Paris (AFP) Oct 1, 2008The crown-of-thorns starfish, a notorious threat to coral in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, comprises four species, not one, biologists reported on Tuesday. The spiny predator, known by its Latin name of Acanthaster planci, has been a worsening peril to reefs for at least three decades, latching onto coral polyps and digesting them. A paper published in the British journal Biology Letter ... more Solar powered cars race in South Africa 
Cape Town (AFP) Oct 1, 2008Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology, organisers said Wednesday. Local teams are competing against racers from India and Japan in the two-week South African Solar Challenge, which aims to encourage students to study engineering, a field in which the country faces huge skills short ... more US-India nuclear pact heads for final hurdle 
Washington (AFP) Oct 1, 2008A US-India nuclear pact headed for its final legislative hurdle on Wednesday with last-minute debate focused on concern about New Delhi carrying out another nuclear weapons test. The US Senate is to vote late Wednesday on the deal, which would lift a three-decade ban on civilian nuclear trade with India imposed after the country carried out a nuclear test in 1974 and refused to sign the ... more
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