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India Maps Out Manned Exploration Program Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 25, 2008 
With the success of Chandrayaan-1, the country's first moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning a manned space mission as a first step to manned moon mission. "Sending man to moon is a very complicated mission. So, as a first step, we plan to develop an Indian spacecraft that will take astronauts across the earth and bring them back," ISRO Chairman ... read more
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Chandrayaan-1 Starts Observations Of The Moon
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 25, 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation's lunar orbiter Chandrayaan-1 released a probe that impacted close to the lunar south pole on 14 November. Following this, the instruments on the spacecraft are being switched on to get the science observations started. The Moon Impact Probe was dropped close to Shackleton crater, a place close to the south pole, where ice may exist in areas that are ... more After India's Chandrayaan-1 Its Britain's MoonLITE 
London, UK (PTI) Nov 24, 2008Britain is set to launch its maiden moon mission to study the phenomenon of mysterious moonquakes, weeks after India's spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully entered the lunar orbit. The 100-million-pound unmanned mission 'MoonLITE' would aim to understand the cause of mysterious quakes that vibrate through the lunar rock and put it into the satellite's orbit before firing a series of probe ... more Pakistan president says supports no-first-use nuclear policy 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 23, 2008Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said he was in favour of a no-first-use policy on nuclear weapons, a position already held by neighbouring India. "Most definitely," Zardari said Saturday evening via videolink from his home in Pakistan, when asked whether his country would pledge not to use a nuclear weapon first. "I am against nuclear warfare altogether." Zardari, who was speaking to ... more From Genes To Farmers' Fields 
Delhi, India (SPX) Nov 24, 2008"Waterproof" versions of popular varieties of rice, which can withstand 2 weeks of complete submergence, have passed tests in farmers' fields with flying colors. Several of these varieties are now close to official release by national and state seed certification agencies in Bangladesh and India, where farmers suffer major crop losses because of flooding of up to 4 million tons of rice ... more Asia not responsible for 'brown haze': India 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 21, 2008India on Friday dismissed as "propaganda" a UN report suggesting the formation of a brown cloud over Asia was due to the burning of fossil fuels by countries in the region. The UN report earlier this week said enormous brown clouds of pollution hanging over Asia, including India, were killing hundreds of thousands of people, melting glaciers, changing weather patterns and damaging crops. ... more |
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Mogadishu (AFP) Nov 19, 2008An Indian warship destroyed a pirate "mother vessel" in the Gulf of Aden, the navy said Wednesday, as bandits demanded a ransom for a Saudi super-tanker seized in the most daring sea raid yet. The Indian frigate INS Tabar, one of dozens of warships from several countries protecting shipping lanes in the area, attacked the Somali pirate ship late Tuesday after coming under fire, navy ... more Tibetan exiles review tactics against Chinese rule 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) Nov 18, 2008Tibetan 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 ... more 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 |
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New Delhi (AFP) Nov 15, 2008India rejoiced Saturday over the landing of a lunar probe on the moon's surface that vaulted the country into the league of space-faring nations like the United States, Russia and Japan. The TV set-sized probe, painted in the green-white-and-orange colours of the Indian flag, made a "precise-to-the-second" landing on the lunar surface late Friday after being released from the unmanned moon-orbiter ... more Somali Pirate War Escalates With Multiple Attacks 
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 16, 2008Somali pirates released a Japanese chemical tanker and its crew, but seized another one in the Gulf of Aden, despite the presence of several warships patrolling the area, officials said Sunday. They released the Stolt Valor and its crew of 18 Indians, two Filipinos, a Russian and Bangladeshi, said Andrew Mwangura who runs the Kenya chapter of the Seafarers Assistance Programme. The vessel ha ... more Tibet movement gathers to decide future 
Dharamshala, India (AFP) Nov 16, 2008Leading Tibetan exiles gathered in India on Sunday ahead of a week of discussions that could transform how the movement pursues its decades-old struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet. The meeting was called by Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who has recently admitted that his efforts to secure greater autonomy for the region through negotiation with the Chinese government have fail ... more Tibet envoys say China talks a failure 
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
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