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India Works With University Of Leicester On First National Astronomy Satellite Leicester, UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2009 
India's first national Astronomy satellite - Astrosat - is to have key components assembled by the University of Leicester. A team of engineers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, has arrived at the University of Leicester's Space Research Centre to progress work on the satellite which is due for launch in 2009. The team, who will be in Leicester until ... read more
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China mulls WTO move over India import ban: state media
Beijing (AFP) Feb 4, 2009China will likely ask the World Trade Organisation if an Indian ban on imports of its toys violates the trade body's rules, state media reported Wednesday, in a rare move by Beijing. The case, affecting a quarter-of-a-billion dollars' worth of toys, is a sign that China will use WTO rules more often to fight new trade barriers as the global credit crisis makes nations more protectionist, the ... more France's Areva signs nuclear reactor accord with India 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 4, 2009French group Areva on Wednesday signed a draft accord for the sale of two to six nuclear reactors to India, a huge new market now open with the end of a nuclear trade embargo on New Delhi. The memorandum of understanding also covers the potential supply by Areva of fuel during the life of the reactors, slated to be built in Jaitapur in the western state of Maharashtra, home to India's ... more Areva says it will sign Indian nuclear deal Wednesday
Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2009French nuclear power giant Areva said it would on Wednesday sign a deal with Nuclear Power Corp of India to build at least two next-generation EPR nuclear reactors. A memorandum of understanding will be signed by Areva chief executive Anne Lauvergeon in New Delhi, said the spokesman for the state-controlled group, adding it would open the way for negotiations to build "at least two EPRs." ... more India signs nuclear inspections deal 
Vienna (AFP) Feb 2, 2009India signed an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog on Monday as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, the International Atomic Energy Agency said. "An agreement between the government of India and the IAEA for the 'Application of Safeguards to Civilian Nuclear Facilities' was signed today in Vienna by IAEA Director General Mohamed ... more Eyeing reactor deal, France hails Indian nuclear accord
Paris (AFP) Feb 2, 2009France, which hopes for deals to export tens of billions of dollars worth of nuclear technology to India, on Monday hailed the Asian giant's inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog. India finalised its return from the nuclear cold by signing a safety accord with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), part of moves to put an end to a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with ... more |
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Mumbai (AFP) Feb 1, 2009French nuclear power engineering company Areva is to sign a deal this week with a number of Indian energy plants, France's foreign trade minister Anne-Marie Idrac said here Sunday. Idrac said that a memorandum of understanding would be signed in the coming days, as part of French moves to tap into India's expanding civil nuclear sector. The minister declined to say exactly how many plant ... more Sorghum gene code could lead to drought-tolerant crops: study 
Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2009An international team of scientists reported on Wednesday it had laid bare the DNA code of sorghum, a hardy tropical cereal whose genes could one day be spliced to produce crops that resist global warming. Sorghum (Latin name Sorghum bicolor) is related to sugar cane and corn and is grown in arid regions of northeast Africa, India and the southern United States for food, fibre, fuel and ... more French ship faces green protest in Britain, after India 
Hartlepool, England (AFP) Jan 27, 2009Local green campaigners in Britain are protesting the imminent arrival of an asbestos-tainted French aircraft carrier here, where it is to be dismantled after being rejected by India. But others argue the task of taking apart the Clemenceau will provide much-needed work, at a time when jobs are being cut across the country due to the global slowdown. The ageing carrier, a former ... more Nepal, India put rampaging flood river back on original course 
Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 27, 2009A Himalayan river which broke flood defences last year and displaced millions of people in Nepal and India has been put back on its original course, officials in Nepal said Tuesday. Indian and Nepali technicians plus hundreds of labourers managed to shift the Saptakoshi river late on Monday, said the head of Nepal's Natural Disaster Relief Department, Pratap Kumar Pathak. "We do not know ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2009India readied on the weekend elaborate security measures for national day celebrations to be held Monday in the wake of the deadly Islamist militant attacks in Mumbai. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev was slated to be chief guest at the Republic Day military parade in the national capital, with India's President Pratibha Patil due to observe the event. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, ... more Indian police kill two 'Pakistan militants' near Delhi 
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 25, 2009Indian police shot and killed two suspected Pakistani militants near the capital New Delhi Sunday, as thousands of troops were deployed on the eve of a national holiday to prevent extremist attacks. Brij Lal, a senior police officer in Uttar Pradesh state, told reporters an anti-terrorist team chased a car carrying two men towards the capital before intercepting it in the suburb of Noida, 20 ... more India To Set Up Air And Space Law Centre 
Lucknow, India (PTI) Jan 23, 2009The Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University (RMLNLU) would soon start courses on air and space law, which would cater to those aspiring to become legal experts in various airlines and research organisations like Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The university would have a specific centre for the purpose, which, in association with a Canada based university would provide ... more Ring of fire: Solar eclipse to traverse Indian Ocean 
Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2009A few lucky people in the Indian Ocean will be treated to a rare event on Monday when an annular solar eclipse will transform the Sun into a dark disc with a blazing ring-shaped corona around its rim. In solar eclipses, the Moon moves between the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow on the terrestrial surface. In an annular eclipse, a tiny shift in distance that results from celestial ... more
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