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NASA Instrument On Chandrayaan Finds Minerals On Moon Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2008 
The moon mineralogy mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, found iron-bearing minerals on the lunar surface, the US space agency said Thursday. "The mapper spectrometer has beamed images of the Orientale Basin region of the moon, indicating abundance of iron-bearing minerals such as ... read more
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Pakistan, India swap nuclear site lists amid tensions
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 1, 2009Pakistan and India exchanged lists Thursday of their nuclear installations under an accord aimed at protecting the sites in case of war, officials said, amid simmering tensions over the Mumbai attacks. The South Asian rivals, whose relations have been rocky since the deadly November attacks on India's financial centre Mumbai, have exchanged the lists annually since 1992, under an agreement ... more Red Cross deploys more teams to fight cholera in Zimbabwe 
Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 31, 2008The Red Cross has deployed seven emergency teams normally reserved for major global disasters to fight Zimbabwe's worsening cholera epidemic, it said in a statement Wednesday. The emergency response units have been used in the past for major earthquakes and the Indian Ocean tsunami, but over the last week seven of the teams have been sent by Red Cross societies from Britain, Finland, Japan a ... more Bush, India, Pakistan agree on need to douse tensions 
Crawford, Texas (AFP) Dec 31, 2008US President George W. Bush spoke with Indian and Pakistani leaders Wednesday and agreed on the need to avoid any moves that could heighten tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Speaking separately with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Bush "urged both ... to cooperate with each other in the Mumbai attack investigation as well as on count ... more Pakistan wants talks, India denies military escalation 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 30, 2008Pakistan on Tuesday called for talks with India to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours, as New Delhi denied claims it had moved troops into offensive positions on the border. The comments from the foreign ministers of the south Asian rivals were the latest in a series of tit-for-tat responses since the Mumbai attacks that India blamed on Pakistan-based militants, triggering ... more India To Launch Own Online Earth Browser Dubbed Bhuvan 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 30, 2008Bhuvan, India's response to Google Earth, will be launched in March 2009 and will provide high resolution imagery data of the order of five metre which would be of great relevance for real-time exercises, including disaster management and military operations. "The Google Earth is providing high resolution data in the order of less than a metre. But the data is two to three years old. It ca ... more |
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Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2008India's space commerce got a big boost on Sunday when the first satellite built by ISRO for a foreign customer was put into its intended orbit after it was launched by the European Ariane-5 rocket fetching a profit of $ 40 million. The state-of-the-art communications satellite - W2M- built by ISRO on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe was launched at 4.05 a.m. IS ... more Pakistan, India can't afford war: analysts 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 28, 2008The risk of war between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan has increased with the redeployment of troops along the common border, but neither can afford the cost of such a conflict, analysts say. The two sides have raised tensions by whipping up war hype for domestic reasons since the Mumbai attacks last month, but must step back from the brink to focus on more pressing issues such as the spre ... more Pakistan says no war with India amid calls for calm 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Pakistan again said Saturday it did not want war with India, as the international community tried to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours after Islamabad moved troops to the border. The United States and Russia led calls for calm in both Islamabad and New Delhi in a bid to improve ties that have deteriorated in the month since the Mumbai attacks, which India has blamed on Pak ... more Islamabad Calls For Calm As Indo-Pak Military Hotline Lights Up 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Pakistan's powerful army chief called Monday for an easing of tensions with India, the military said, one month after the Mumbai attacks sent ties between the nuclear-armed neighbours into a tailspin. General Ashfaq Kayani made the call during a meeting with visiting Chinese vice foreign minister He Yafei, who was dispatched by Beijing to Islamabad as part of an international effort to resto ... more |
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Islamabad (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Pakistan again said Saturday it did not want war with India, as the international community tried to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours after Islamabad moved troops to the border. The White House called for calm amid a flurry of diplomatic activity in both Islamabad and New Delhi aimed at easing already badly strained ties, one month after the Mumbai attacks, which India ha ... more India flirts with military response to Mumbai attacks
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 23, 2008India's refusal to rule out a military response to the Mumbai attacks is a diplomatic strategy that hides the limited options open to the government, analysts say. Under intense domestic pressure to take decisive and forceful action over the attacks -- which it blames on Pakistan-based militants -- India faces numerous problems in formulating a proportionate plan of action. Topping the l ... more Indonesia marks four years since Indian Ocean tsunami 
Meulaboh, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 26, 2008Indonesia Friday marked four years since the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami with prayers and remembrance of one of the world's worst ever natural disasters. Indonesia was the nation hardest hit by the tsunami, with at least 168,000 people killed when walls of water smashed into Nias island and Aceh province, which sits on the northern end of Sumatra. Thousands of Acehnese gathered among the ... more Hope and disappointment four years on from Asian tsunami 
Lam Tutui, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 25, 2008When the deadly waters of the Asian tsunami smashed into this fishing village in Indonesia's Aceh province four years ago, not one house was left standing. Now there are too many of them. Recovery has been uneven in the dozen countries hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster, which killed more than 220,000 people. While some communities have rebounded and flourished on a multibillion dollar ou ... more
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