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UK Moon Camera Ready For Blast Off London, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2008 
A sophisticated X-ray camera made by scientists and engineers from the UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is set to launch into space next week aboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft - India's first mission to the Moon. This is the first time the UK and India have collaborated in space science, and the UK partners will be following the progress of the launch in the early ... read more
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Asian firms vastly improve information security: survey
Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2008Asian companies, primarily those in India, have vastly improved their information security practices, equalling and even surpassing many North American firms, according to a survey released Wednesday. The State of Information Security Survey 2008 found that while Asian companies have made great progress, efforts to improve information security in Europe "appear to have stalled." ... more Asia's richest economies shield savers from financial crisis 
Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 15, 2008Asia's richest countries have responded to the global financial crisis by guaranteeing savers' deposits, but many in the region still have little or no protection in the event of a banking collapse. In an indication of just how nervous some Asian savers are, recent rumours about the health of two banks in Hong Kong and India sent hundreds of depositors scrambling to withdraw their life saving ... more ASEAN expects China, India to keep mining afloat amid recession 
Manila (AFP) Oct 13, 2008Mineral exporters in Southeast Asia expect China and India to sustain demand amid a looming recession in developed countries, officials and industry executives said Monday. "The world will not stop operations," Filipino Natural Resources Secretary Joselito Atienza told reporters. "The present crisis in the world could be an opportunity for ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) ... more India's humble rickshaw goes solar 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 13, 2008It's been touted as a solution to urban India's traffic woes, chronic pollution and fossil fuel dependence, as well as an escape from backbreaking human toil. A state-of-the-art, solar powered version of the humble cycle-rickshaw promises to deliver on all this and more. The "soleckshaw," unveiled this month in New Delhi, is a motorised cycle rickshaw that can be pedalled normally or run ... more India Not Engaged In Space Race With China 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 13, 2008As 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 ... more |
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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 India To Have New Launchpad For Proposed Manned Mission 
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Oct 08, 2008India 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 ... more 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 |
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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 Nuclear deal set to boost US-India ties 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 5, 2008The United States looked Sunday to burgeoning trade, defense and other ties with powerhouse India after New Delhi tipped its hat to Washington for unlocking the door to the global nuclear market. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Indian hosts on Saturday hailed a deepening "strategic partnership," even if last-minute hitches derailed the signing in New Delhi of a landmark civil ... more Chandrayaan-I Moved To Sriharikota For Launch
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 03, 2008The stage is set for India's first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-I as the spacecraft has completed all environmental tests and shifted to Sriharikota for launch on-board PSLV-C11. The PSLV-C11 was expected to be launched later this month. The environmental tests included vibration and acoustic tests, ISRO officials said. The tests were carried out at the ISRO Satellite Cen ... more
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