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India admits failed cruise missile test New Delhi (AFP) Jan 21, 2009 
A supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by Russia and India failed to hit its target in a test previously reported as successful, Indian military scientists said Wednesday. The Defence Research and Development Organisation, which Tuesday claimed the test of the BrahMos missile had been a "total success," said the missile had flown only in the general direction of its target. ... read more
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India welcomes Canada's involvement in its nuclear expansion: minister
Ottawa (AFP) Jan 21, 2009India welcomes Canada's "strong involvement" in the expansion of its nuclear power capacity, Canada's Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday. Day, on a four-day visit to the world's most populous democracy, also indicated in a statement that Canada aims to finalize a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with India "as soon as possible." "I was encouraged by the very positive resp ... more We Will Have An Indian On The Moon By 2020 
Chennai, India (SPX) Jan 21, 2009Following the footsteps of former President and scientist A P J Abdul Kalam, Mayilsami Annadurai, director of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), on Sunday interacted with school students on various aspects of space science, importance of space programmes and ambitions. He addressed the CBSE and State Board students separately at Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan and Madras Christian Highe ... more India test-fires supersonic cruise missile 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 20, 2009India's military Tuesday tested a surface-to-surface version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which it had developed jointly with Russia, a defence ministry spokesman said. The missile was fired from the Pokhran range in the western desert state of Rajasthan, bordering Pakistan, that was also the site of India's nuclear tests in 1998. The official said the test was "routine," but ... more Chandrayaan Gives First Glimpse Of Darkest Craters On Moon 
New York NY (PTI) Jan 20, 2009India'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 ... more 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 |
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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 Indian army chief confirms Pakistan troop movements 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 15, 2009The 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, ... more 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 |
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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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