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India's Space Programme Poised For Big Leap Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Feb 12, 2009 
India's space programme is poised for major strides in the coming years with several missions already in the line-up, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. The ISRO had launched 25 missions and the number would go up to 70 in the next five years, Nair said while speaking at the stone-laying function for the Missile Integration Complex of BrahMos Aerospace Ltd (BATL) here. Development ... read more
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Pakistan wish list exposes Holbrooke challenge
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 12, 2009US envoy Richard Holbrooke leaves Pakistan Thursday with a wish list for aid, but in no doubt about the challenge of eradicating Islamist havens in the nuclear-armed Muslim nation. Paying a first visit to Pakistan, Afghanistan and India to conduct a major review of US policy in the "war on terror", Holbrooke spent three days hearing a litany of woes and requests from the government and the ... more US Navy arrests suspected pirates in Gulf of Aden 
Manama (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The US Navy said it has arrested nine suspected pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, after the Indian-flagged Motor Vessel Premedivya sent a distress call. "The guided missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72) intercepted and apprehended nine suspected pirates today in the Gulf of Aden, after responding to a distress call from a nearby merchant vessel," the US Fifth Fleet said. ... more Carbon emitters hold talks in Tokyo 
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 12, 2009The world's major carbon emitters were in "full negotiation mode" Thursday as they met in Tokyo with the clock ticking to draft a new UN treaty on fighting global warming. Representatives from 22 countries, including major CO2 emitters China, India and the United States, as well as the European bloc are taking part in the informal two-day session. It marks one of the first negotiating ... more India kicks off South Asia's biggest airshow 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Feb 11, 2009South Asia's biggest airshow opened here Wednesday with firms from 25 countries showcasing their latest hardware in a chase for multibillion-dollar contracts with the Indian military. Despite the global economic downturn, nearly 600 armament and aerospace companies -- half of them from overseas -- are taking part in this year's Aero India event in Bangalore. Regional rival Pakistan has ... more India 'open to talks' with China on toy ban 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 10, 2009India 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 ... more |
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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 Young IT Professionals Prefer ISRO Now 
Coimbatore, India (PTI) Feb 09, 2009Many young software engineers are applying for posts in Indian Space Research organization (ISRO) after the success of Chandrayaan-1, a top official in the Department Of Science and Technology (DoST) said Jan 27. Many engineers have said during their interviews that they lacked professional satisfaction in IT companies and jobs and wanted to work in space related programs by which they ... more Indian cyclists fighting for pedal power revolution 
Mumbai (AFP) Feb 8, 2009In India, where the car is king, the only cyclists tend to be delivery men, heaving the pedals of ancient, rusting, single-gear machines laden with milk churns or tied-up bales of newspapers. But the country's small, yet vocal, band of cycling enthusiasts is hoping to change all that, by taking to the streets in a regular celebration of pedal power to show that push bikes exist and also have ... more |
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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 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
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