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Myanmar rat infestation causing food crisis: NGO Yangon (AFP) Jan 12, 2009 
Tens of thousands of people in remote northwestern Myanmar faced a food crisis after their farmlands were destroyed by a rat infestation, a non-governmental organisation said Monday. The infestation erupted two years ago in Chin state, which borders Bangladesh and India, and some residents were now receiving rice handouts, said Joseph Win Hlaing Oo, director of the Country Agency for Rural ... read more
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India Inc in damage-control mode after billion-dollar fraud scandal
Mumbai (AFP) Jan 11, 2009A billion-dollar accounting scandal at one of India's top outsourcing firms has left the government and financial regulators scrabbling to control the damage. Besides huge losses for investors, the scandal has seriously dented India Inc.'s reputation for strong corporate governance, often viewed as being a notch above its other Asian rival, China. "The admission of fraud in financial aff ... more Physicist Offers Foundation For Uprooting A Hallowed Principle Of Physics 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Jan 08, 2009Physicists 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. ... more 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 |
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Shillong, India (SPX) Jan 05, 2009India is planning to hoist the tricolour on the moon by 2020, a space agency official said here Sunday, adding that the country's first manned flight into space was also on cards by 2015. K. Radhakrishnan, member of the Space Commission and director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said plans were afoot to send a two-member crew into spa ... more India Hoping To Extend Mission Life Of Chandrayaan-I 
Shillong (PTI) Jan 05, 2009Scientists can now extend the duration of India's maiden moon mission Chandrayaan-I beyond its planned two-year period. The precise launch and lunar orbit insertion of Chandrayaan-I has given space scientists the leverage to extend the mission life of the spacecraft orbiting the moon at an altitude of 100 km. "The spacecraft has about 183 kg fuel onboard and we are looking at a two-y ... more Chandrayaan Dominates Day Two At Indian Science Congress 
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 |
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New Delhi (AFP) Jan 5, 2009India has signed a 2.1 billion dollar deal with US aerospace giant Boeing to buy maritime surveillance aircraft for the Indian navy, officials told AFP Monday. The agreement to buy eight P-81 long-range reconnaissance aircraft marks India's biggest military aircraft deal with the United States, defence ministry officials said. The contract was signed on January 1 in New Delhi. "The deal ... more 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 Bad Times Ahead For Somali Pirates 
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
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