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Indian army chief confirms Pakistan troop movements New Delhi (AFP) Jan 15, 2009 
The head of India's army on Wednesday confirmed that Pakistan has redeployed troops along the two countries' tense border but said he regarded war as a "last resort." "The aspect of some (Pakistani) troops coming towards the east... we are aware of it. That has happened. They have come to the eastern border of Pakistan with India," General Deepak Kapoor told a news conference. "However, ... read more
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Transport ministers plot climate action in Japan
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Twenty-two nations met Thursday in Japan to find ways to curb global warming from transport, which causes nearly one-quarter of carbon emissions but has partly evaded strict regulation. Transport ministers from the nations - including key polluters such as the United States, China and India - opened two days of talks in Tokyo as momentum builds to draft a post-Kyoto treaty on climate chang ... more Climate: Germany blasts geo-engineering scheme in Atlantic 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Germany's environment ministry on Wednesday took aim at a controversial experiment to see whether the ocean can be primed to become a sponge for soaking up dangerous greenhouse gases. The geo-engineering scheme - bitterly attacked by environmentalists - is being conducted by a joint German-Indian research team aboard a German vessel, who say they are not breaking any rules or damaging the ... more Chandrayan Provides Pictures Of Lunar Surface 
Raipur, India (PTI) Jan 13, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman G Madhavan Nair on Monday said the success of Chandrayan-1 mission has enabled the scientific community in the country to get complete picture of moon's surface and that too an extent of five metre resolution. "Though several moon missions were there in the past, no mission had provided pictures and data about the entire surface of the moo ... more Myanmar rat infestation causing food crisis: NGO 
Yangon (AFP) Jan 12, 2009Tens 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 ... more 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 |
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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 Indian teachers burn books to keep warm: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 7, 2009A group of teachers in eastern India used books meant for poor children to light a bonfire to keep them warm, a report said Tuesday. The teachers at a school in Bihar state sent students home over the weekend, citing the cold weather, and set light to the books, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Police have registered a case against the school principal and 16 others, the re ... more |
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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 Oil And Gas Pipelines Hit Center Stage In 2008 
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 02, 2009European countries were forced in 2008 to recognize the risk of a non-diverse supply of oil and gas, as geopolitical strife shut down or otherwise threatened oil and gas pipelines. Further east, tensions such as the India-Pakistan row, exacerbated by the Mumbai terrorist attacks, could derail planned pipeline projects. Oil through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline resumed in September ... more
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