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Chandrayaan Gives First Glimpse Of Darkest Craters On Moon New York NY (PTI) Jan 20, 2009 
India's first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, is providing scientists with the first look inside the moon's coldest and darkest craters, US space agency NASA has said. The NASA radar on board the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has sent back its first images which "show the floors of permanently-shadowed polar craters on the moon that aren't visible from Earth," NASA said in a press ... read more
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NASA Radar On Indian Lunar Satellite Looks Deep Inside Shadowed Craters
Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2009Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters. The Mini-SAR instrument, a lightweight, synthetic aperture radar, has passed its initial in-flight tests and sent back its first data. The images show the floors of permanently-shadowed polar craters on the moon that aren't visible fro ... more ISRO Processes Propellant Booster For Mars Program 
Kochi (PTI) Jan 19, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation has recently commissioned a world class solid propellant plant at Sriharikota, where the 200 tonne propellant booster meant for the 'Mars programme' was processed, an official of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre said. "Two months back, we commissioned a world class solid propellant plant at Sriharikota, where we are able to process the 200 tonnes propel ... more Analysis: Indian-Kazakh energy ties deepen 
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2009 While the global recession has blindsided the world's oil market, harming the revenue stream of many major producers, Kazakhstan is seeking to overcome the fiscal setback and is looking to the future to diversify its energy exports. A key ingredient in Astana's efforts is its burgeoning uranium production, and it has focused its attention squarely on a rising Asian economic powerhouse - India ... more Pakistan army 'fully prepared' for 'challenges': army chief 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Pakistan's powerful military chief Thursday vowed that his forces were "fully prepared" to meet any challenges, one day after his Indian counterpart said all options remained on the table. Relations between the two sides have been strained since the Mumbai attacks in November, which India has blamed on Pakistan-based militants. Pakistani officials said last month that troops were moved to th ... more Outside View: Two responses to terror 
Manipal, India (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 Although both are democracies, Israel and India are polar opposites in their response to "asymmetrical" warfare - also known as terrorism. While India until now has consistently adopted a soft - some would say soggy - policy toward the Pakistani army's tactics of using jihadis to weaken India socially, militarily and economically, Israel has almost invariably responded with force to similar ... more |
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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 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 |
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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 India Touts Plans To Hoist Tricolour On Moon By 2020 
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
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