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India sends warship to pirate-infested Gulf of Aden New Delhi (AFP) Oct 17, 2008 
India is deploying one of its latest warships to the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden off the coast of Somalia to protect its merchant vessels, officials said Friday. A "stealth frigate is being diverted to these waters," Indian navy spokesman Nirad Sinha said. The Russian-designed vessel can evade radar and is armed with guided missiles and cannons, naval officials said. The move comes afte ... read more
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US to send nuclear mission to India
Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2008The United States said Wednesday it would send a mission to India in December to explore business opportunities following a landmark pact to open up sales of civilian nuclear technology to the country. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee signed the agreement last week that lifted a three-decade ban on US-Indian civilian nuclear trade imposed ... more UK Moon Camera Ready For Blast Off 
London, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2008A 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 ... more 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 |
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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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