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Tibetan exiles review tactics against Chinese rule Dharamshala, India (AFP) Nov 18, 2008 
Tibetan exiles worked Tuesday to hammer out a new strategy for their fight against Chinese rule in the region, after the Dalai Lama called for fresh guidance from his followers. More than 500 prominent Tibetans have gathered at the government in exile's base in northern India to debate whether to ditch the Dalai Lama's push for "meaningful autonomy" in favour of a demand for full independence ... read more
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Scientists warm to possibility of moon ice
Providence, R.I. (UPI) Nov 17, 2008 Researchers at Brown University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., say they're checking the lunar poles for evidence of ice. Carle Pieters, a planetary geologist at the Providence, R.I., university, and her colleagues will be analyzing data from one of 11 instruments aboard the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 that began orbiting the moon earlier in November, the ... more Chandrayaan Terrain Mapping Camera Sends Pictures 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Nov 18, 2008India's unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has beamed two pictures that displays many large and small craters on the moon surface. The pictures taken by the spacecraft's Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC) on November 15 over the polar region of the moon shows many large and small craters, ISRO sources said. Another picture sent by TMC has filmed the bright terrain on the lower ... more Security tight as Indian Kashmir votes in state polls 
Sumbhal (AFP) Nov 17, 2008Indian Kashmir voted under tight security Monday for a new state government, with a boycott call by Muslim separatists triggering sporadic clashes but failing to shut down the ballot. In the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, chief electoral officer B.R. Sharma put the turnout at more than 50 percent, with hundreds of people queuing at polling stations from the early morning. Higher voting ... more Tibetan exiles rethink struggle against Chinese rule 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) Nov 17, 2008Leading Tibetan exiles kicked off a week-long meeting in northern India Monday that could usher in a more radical approach to their long struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, called the gathering after admitting that his attempts to secure greater autonomy for the region through negotiation with the Chinese government had failed. Before the ... more Indian Tricolour Reaches Lunar Surface 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Nov 14, 2008In a historic event, the Indian space programme achieved a unique feat today (November 14, 2008) with the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon's surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's birthday. The modern Indian space programme was initiated in 1962 when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India. The point of MIP's impact was near the Moon's South Polar Region. ... more |
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Dharamshala, India (AFP) Nov 16, 2008Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, said on Sunday that their most recent talks with China had failed, as the Tibet movement gathered in north India to assess its future. The talks had confirmed "the failure on the part of the Chinese government to seriously respond to the efforts of His Holiness the Dalai Lama over decades," Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, one of the envoys ... more Indian Probe Impacts Moon 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Nov 14, 2008An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme. The probe touched down on the moon at 8:34pm (1504 GMT), 25 minutes after it was ejected from an unmanned spacecraft orbiting the moon, spokesman S. Satish said. "During its descent from Chandrayaan-1 an onboard video camera transmi ... more India to take second moon shot by 2012, eyes Mars 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 13, 2008Buoyed by the success of its maiden lunar mission, India on Thursday said it will send a second unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2012. The announcement came less than a week after Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft, entered lunar orbit for the start of a two-year mission. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the second spacecraft would also place a probe on ... more India To Mark Entry On Moon On Friday 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 14, 2008The Indian flag is all set to mark its presence on the lunar surface for the first time on Friday as a moon probe with the tri-colour painted on it will detach from Chandrayaan-1 and descend onto the earth's natural satellite. "The Moon Impact Probe is expected to be detached (from Chandrayaan-1) at around 10 PM tomorrow," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spokesperson S Satish ... more |
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Hong Kong (UPI) Nov 12, 2008 China's military preparedness and strategic deployment of weaponry take into consideration a whole range of potential enemies, an analysis of internal People's Liberation Army documents has revealed. In order of importance -- that is, the likelihood of actual military engagement -- those enemies are Taiwan, the United States and Japan -- as potential defenders of Taiwan, India, Vietnam ... more China hits out at Indian Foreign Minister's border comments 
Beijing (AFP) Nov 11, 2008China objected strongly on Tuesday to comments by India's foreign minister in which he rejected Chinese claims over a border region long disputed by the two giants. "We express deep regret over India's public remarks that ignore historic facts," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said during a regular news briefing. Qin was responding to comments Sunday by Indian External ... more Indian warship fights off pirates in Gulf of Aden 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 11, 2008An Indian warship on Tuesday prevented two merchant vessels from being hijacked by heavily armed pirates in the Gulf of Aden and escorted both ships to safety, the navy said. Pirates on power-boats attacked Saudi Arabia-registered merchant vessel "MV Timaha," and half an hour later a second group tried to board a 38,000-tonne bulk carrier owned by India's Great Eastern Shipping Co, the navy ... more Russian navy base mourns as deadly sub accident probed 
Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Nov 10, 2008Russian investigators on Monday probed a deadly gas poisoning on a nuclear submarine destined for India, as the first service was held to mourn the 20 people who died in the accident. Navy top brass and government officials gathered in Bolshoi Kamen, a shipyard where the submarine was assembled and sailed from, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Russia's main Pacific naval base of ... more
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