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Physicist Offers Foundation For Uprooting A Hallowed Principle Of Physics Bloomington IN (SPX) Jan 08, 2009 
Physicists at Indiana University have developed a promising new way to identify a possible abnormality in a fundamental building block of Einstein's theory of relativity known as "Lorentz invariance." If confirmed, the abnormality would disprove the basic tenet that the laws of physics remain the same for any two objects traveling at a constant speed or rotated relative to one another. ... read more
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Indian Farmers To Consult Scientists Via Satellite
Shillong (PTI) Jan 08, 2009Farmers of Northeast can now interact with top scientists of the country and seek solutions to their problems related to farming, market, health and weather dynamics from their nearest Village Resource Centres (VRC). The Shillong-based North Eastern Space Application Centre (NESAC) in association with Bangalore-based Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has set up 34 VRCs across the ... more ISRO To Launch Four Foreign Satellites This Year 
Bangalore (PTI) Jan 08, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation will launch four foreign satellites this year as it seeks to make further inroads into the international satellite-building and launch services market in 2009. Two weeks ago, communication satellite, W2M, built by ISRO on a commercial basis in partnership with EADS-Astrium of Europe, was successfully launched by the European Ariane-5 launch vehicle from ... more Pentagon denies missile defense sales talks with India 
Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2009The Pentagon has had longstanding contacts with India on missile defense issues but is not in talks to sell it missile defense systems, a defense spokesman said. "The United States and India currently are not discussing the sale of any US missile defense systems to India," said Lieutenant Colonel Stewart Upton. The Financial Times, citing US embassy officials in New Delhi, said the Unite ... more US, Iran have shared interest in Afghanistan: Petraeus 
Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2009Iran could become involved in a regional strategy to the conflict in Afghanistan, as Tehran shares common interests with the United States there, suggested Thursday General David Petraeus, head of US Central Command. A resolution to the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan requires "a regional approach ... that includes Pakistan, India the Central Asian states and even China and Russia, along wit ... more US 5th fleet announces new international anti-piracy force 
Manama (AFP) Jan 8, 2009The US Fifth Fleet announced Thursday the launch of a new international naval force to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean after a wave of hijackings off the coast of Somalia. "The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) has established Combined Task Force 151 (CTF-151) specifically for counter-piracy operations," the Bahrain-based fleet said in a statement. US Navy Rear Admiral ... more |
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Shillong, India (SPX) Jan 05, 2009Hundreds of children in Shillong watched with great enthusiasm and expectations as a film took them on a journey to the making of Chandrayaan-I here at the ongoing 96th Indian Science Congress, ISC -2009. The film was brought to them by none other than Prof. M.G.K. Menon, an emminent scientist and the Chancellor of North Eastern Hill University, NEHU. The show and the interaction there after was ... more NASA Instrument On Chandrayaan Finds Minerals On Moon 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Dec 29, 2009The 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 ... more Pakistan reviewing Indian file on Mumbai: official 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 5, 2009Pakistan said Monday it was reviewing a dossier India handed over regarding the deadly Mumbai attacks, which triggered fresh tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters India had given Pakistan what it said was evidence linking the Islamic militants who carried out the November attacks to "elements in Pakistan." In Islamabad, ... more Corals Stage Dramatic Comeback Four Years After Tsunami 
New York NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2009A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout the Indian Ocean four years ago today. The WCS team, working in conjunction with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARCCoERS) along with ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 02, 2009The next year will be a bad one for the Somali pirates, as on December 16, the UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution giving special forces of its member countries the right to track and detain pirates on the sea and on land. This surgical operation will not cleanse the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean of the pirates overnight, but it is a good start. Experts have been sayi ... 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
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