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Indian minister says all Mumbai attackers from Pakistan Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 1, 2008 
All the gunmen who carried out the Mumbai attacks that left 172 people dead were from neighbouring Pakistan, India's deputy home minister told the BBC in an interview on Monday. "The terrorists who have been killed in these encounters in Mumbai in the last few days were of Pakistani origin," Shakeel Ahmad said. It was the most explicit statement yet from an Indian official about the iden ... read more
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Westinghouse To Pursue Nuclear Power Market In India
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 02, 2008Westinghouse Electric has announced that its expects its participation in a nuclear-focused trade mission to India next week to be the beginning of a long and mutually rewarding relationship with a wide range of Indian power companies, suppliers and academic institutions. The trade mission, sponsored by the U.S.-India Business Council in cooperation with the Nuclear Energy Institute, begin ... more India Can Send Manned Mission To Moon By 2020 
Ahmedabad, India (SPX) Dec 01, 2008India will be able to send a manned mission to moon by the year 2020 if everything goes as planned, Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair has said. Nair was here to deliver the 4th lecture on leadership title 'Indian Space Mission-Recent Achievement and Challenges Ahead' at a function organised by the Ahmedabad Management Association. "Space is going to be the ... more Pakistan FM urges India not to get 'sucked' into blame game 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 28, 2008Pakistan's foreign minister appealed Friday to India not to get "sucked" into a blame game over the Mumbai attacks and put the nuclear-armed neighbours on the path to confrontation. Speaking in New Delhi, where he was on an official visit, Shah Mehmood Qureshi condemned the multiple Islamist assaults on India's financial capital, calling the militants "barbaric animals." But he said Indi ... more Chandrayaan Working Normally 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 27, 2008India's unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan is functioning normally even though there has been a rise in temperature in the moon's atmosphere, an ISRO official said on Wednesday. "It is a usual phenomena because it is summer on the moon. There is nothing to worry. It will be normal by December," Satish, ISRP spokesperson said. He said the craft's nine payloads, which have been ... more Saudi tanker hijacking sparks oil spill fears: officials 
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 25, 2008The hijacking of a super-tanker in the Indian Ocean is prompting environmentalists to plan for the worst as tension mounts between increasingly brazen Somali pirates and frustrated foreign powers. The pirates holding the Saudi-owned Sirius Star warned of a "disaster" if there is any military attempt to free the ship, after Somali Islamists threatened to attack the group holding the ship. ... more |
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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 Pirates took just 16 minutes to steal super-tanker: military report
Paris (AFP) Nov 20, 2008Pirates took just 16 minutes from boarding to seizing control of a 100-million-dollar-laden Saudi oil super-tanker in the Indian Ocean, a military report obtained by AFP showed Thursday. The report also described the Sirius Star -- with woeful defences, restricted manoeuvrability and speed capacities owing to its 319,000-tonne oil cargo -- as a lumbering prey for two speedboats carrying well ... more |
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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 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
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