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India 'open to talks' with China on toy ban New Delhi (AFP) Feb 10, 2009 
India said Tuesday it was open to talks with China over New Delhi's decision to ban Chinese toy imports but added Beijing was welcome to challenge the move before the WTO, a report said Tuesday. "We are open to discussing the matter with China," Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said in the Indian capital, according to the United News of India news agency. Nath's comments came a ... read more
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India Ramps Up Manned Spaceflight Talk
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 10, 2009India plans to develop a space vehicle that can carry up to three astronauts in a seven-day manned mission to space, Indian Space Research Organization chairman G. Madhavan Nair said on Monday. "The concept is getting evolved," Nair said while addressing an international seminar. India is looking at developing a spacecraft for launch in 2015 using India's Geo-Synchronous Launch Vehicle. ... more ISRO Says It Is Not looking At Arianespace As A Competitor 
Bangalore TX (SPX) Feb 10, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman G Madhavan Nair on Monday said that European space consortium Arianespace would market home-grown rocket PSLV in Europe and maintained that ISRO does not see the latter as a long-term competitor. "ISRO does not want to be a competitor of Arianespace. ISRO is looking for cooperation and collaboration with the European space community to evolve ... more India too reliant on military imports: defence minister 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 9, 2009India's defence minister said Monday he felt "guilty" over what he described as the country's unacceptably heavy dependence on foreign military technology. India imports 70 percent of its defence requirements, a figure that leaves it "far, far behind" fulfilling the dream of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, for self-reliance in the defence sector, A.K. Antony told a seminar on aer ... more Saab ties up with Tata to develop fighter jet 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 9, 2009Swedish aeronautics maker Saab said Monday it had tied up with India's Tata group to develop a new variant of its Gripen fighter jet as it pitches for a 12-billion-dollar deal from New Delhi. Saab executive Kjell Moller said the tie-up with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was not only aimed at jointly developing the Gripen but also at getting a chance at the biggest fighter jet deal in the ... more China expresses 'serious concern' over toy ban, other India moves 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 9, 2009China on Monday voiced "serious concern" over India's decision to impose a ban on imports of toys and other measures and said the moves threaten to severely affect bilateral trade relations. "The Chinese government expresses serious concern that the Indian side has imposed... import restrictions in such a short time period," the ministry of commerce said in a statement on its website. ... more |
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Islamabad (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Thousands of Pakistanis took to the streets on Thursday to denounce Indian rule in Kashmir, the disputed Muslim-majority Himalayan state divided between the nuclear-armed rivals. A public holiday, Kashmir Solidarity Day supports the region's right to self-determination under UN resolutions that call for a plebiscite in Kashmir on whether it should be ruled by Hindu-majority India or Muslim ... more Brazilian Indians fleeing bulldozers: group 
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 5, 2009One of the Amazon forest's last nomad tribes, the Awa, is being threatened by bulldozers encroaching on their protected reserve, the group Survival International said Thursday. The 300 Indians making up the community in Brazil's Maranhao state are "fleeing from bulldozers as their last forest is rapidly destroyed," it said in a statement. The tribe includes 60 members who have never had ... more India Works With University Of Leicester On First National Astronomy Satellite 
Leicester, UK (SPX) Feb 05, 2009India'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 ... more 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 |
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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 ISRO-Built Satellite Fails After Five Weeks 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 02, 2009The very first communications satellite sold by the Indian Space Research Organization to the European operator Eutelsat has failed abruptly after five weeks in orbit, in a setback to ISRO which just celebrated the 100th day of its successful moon mission. 'Scientists at ISRO are analyzing the anomaly in the hope of reviving the satellite,' ISRO spokesman S. Satish told IANS. ... more World heads for 'water bankruptcy', says Davos report 
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 30, 2009The world is heading toward "water bankruptcy" as demand for the precious commodity outstrips even high population growth, a new report warned Friday. In less than 20 years water scarcity could lose the equivalent of the entire grain crops of India and the United States, said the World Economic Forum report, which added that food demand is expected to sky-rocket in coming decades. ... more India to sign IAEA deal on Monday: diplomats 
Vienna (AFP) Jan 30, 2009India will next week sign an inspections agreement with the UN atomic watchdog as part of a deal lifting a 34-year-old embargo on nuclear trade with New Delhi, diplomatic sources said Friday. "The signing will take place on Monday at 2:30pm (1330 GMT)," said one source close to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The so-called safeguards agreement is a pre-condition for a US-led deal ... more
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