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India Not Engaged In Space Race With China Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 13, 2008 
As India prepares for its first unmanned mission to the Moon next week, ISRO chief Madhavan Nair has said that New Delhi is not engaged in a space race with Beijing, stating that the priorities of the two countries are different and there is no competition. Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned lunar venture, is slated for launch on October 22 and India has proposed Mars mission in ... read more
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Chandrayaan-1 Ready For First Indian Mission To Moon
Sriharikota, India (AFP) Oct 12, 2008India is making final preparations for its first mission to the moon, officials said over the weekend. Lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 will be launched on October 22 by a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the Sriharikota space centre in the country's south. "All checks on the vehicle have been completed. The vehicle is now ready to receive the satellite," T. Subba Reddy, manager ... more Moon Mission Is Not Expensive, Says ISRO 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 10, 2008Dismissing suggestions that Chandrayaan-1 was an expensive mission, ISRO has said the moon odyssey will enable India to upgrade technological expertise for exploration of outer space and ultimately help in setting up a base on the earth's natural satellite. "Moon mission cost is less than Rs 400 crore, which is just ten per cent of annual budget of ISRO spread over many years," ISRO ... more Bush signs US-India nuclear law 
Washington (AFP) Oct 8, 2008US President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed legislation to enact a landmark US-India civilian nuclear agreement, celebrating "the growing ties between the world's two largest democracies." "This agreement sends a signal to the world: Nations that follow the path to democracy and responsible behavior will find a friend in the United States of America," Bush said at a lavish White House ... more Analysis: India favors Russia for arms 
Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush will leave office in January seeing India's famous special relationship with a global thermonuclear power stronger than ever. The only trouble is, India's ever-closer alliance is not with the United States, but with Russia. This basic fact of global and Asian geopolitical life is widely and openly reported in the Russian and Indian press, yet somehow it ... more Glacial dams helped Tibet keep its cutting edge 
Paris (AFP) Oct 8, 2008Boulders and soil left by retreating glaciers helped preserve the mighty Tibetan plateau from being worn away by river erosion, scientists said in a study released Wedneday. The plateau resulted from the collision of the Indian and Asian continental plates around 50 million years ago, creating some of the world's greatest rivers and gorges and the most glaciated region outside the north and ... more |
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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 Rice in India, but no signature for nuclear pact 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 4, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks Saturday in India on a visit to showcase a landmark bilateral nuclear deal, but last-minute hitches derailed the scheduled signing of the pact. Rice, who had lobbied Congress to approve the deal despite fears it could undercut global efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons, had hoped to initial the agreement as the highlight of her brie ... more |
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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 Power shortage haunts India as nuclear deal cleared 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 3, 2008Power outages that stretch hours are a regular event in Shaila Kapoor's life in a smart suburb of energy-hungry India's national capital. "It's a nightmare," said Kapoor, a teacher. "We've power back-up (from a battery) but it doesn't last long and then we either literally drip from the heat or drive to a mall." India's massive electricity crunch is a key reason why the government said ... more
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