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Indian Air Force on alert after Colombo raid: report New Delhi (AFP) Feb 21, 2009 
The Indian Air Force was placed on alert on the southern coast of the country Saturday following a deadly Tamil Tiger air raid on the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, a report said. The Press Trust of India news agency quoted air force sources as saying coastal radar and air defence units were keeping a "round-the-clock vigil" for aerial threats, given the area's proximity to Sri Lanka. ... read more
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Indian Air Force To Have Its Own Eye In Space
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 17, 2009With a view to increasing its surveillance capabilities, Indian Air Force is going to have its own satellite in space by the end of 2010. "We will launch our satellite by the end of 2010," IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major said here yesterday. The satellite to be launched by ISRO next year will be a dual-use satellite and will be used for civilian purposes also. It will ... more ISRO To Launch A Breakthrough Satellite 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 18, 2009After its successful unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-I, Indian Space Research Organisation is poised to launch a "breakthrough" remote sensing satellite RISAT that can take pictures of earth during night and even see through clouds and fog. Bangalore-headquartered ISRO is targeting a March last week date for launching the 1,780-kg Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT) along with ANUSAT ... more Hu wraps up Africa tour with Mauritius deals 
Port Louis (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday pledged further aid to Africa, despite his country's economic downturn, as he wrapped up a four-nation visit to the continent. In Mauritius, Hu signed deals worth more than 270 million dollars (215 million euros) to fund infrastructure projects on the Indian Ocean island, home to Africa's largest Chinese diaspora. Despite ... more Qantas slashes China, India routes 
Melbourne (AFP) Feb 17, 2009Australian carrier Qantas announced cuts to "underperforming" routes to China and India on Tuesday, and said it was handing its domestic New Zealand services to discount offshoot Jetstar. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the airline made the changes after closely monitoring its international operations amid turbulence created by the global economic crisis. "The Qantas Group is ... more ISRO Gets 27 Per Cent Hike In Budgetary Allocations 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Feb 17, 2009ISRO has received a 27 per cent hike in budgetary allocation, a major chunk of which is will be spent on missions to moon, development of the semi-cryogenic engine and building a rocket for launching heavier satellites. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was allocated Rs 4,459 crore, an increase of Rs 960 crore over the previous year's sanction of Rs 3,499 crore, in the interim ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Japan said Monday it was trapped in its worst economic slump since World War II, as once-buoyant China and India issued stark warnings on the outlook and more job cuts were announced in Europe. New data released showed the Japanese economy, the world's second largest, shrank for a third straight quarter in the three months to December. It was the weakest performance since 1974 when the ... more Marriott plans 57 Asian hotels over 4 years 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 16, 2009Hotel group Marriott International said Monday it was planning to open 57 new hotels in Asia over the next four years, mainly targeting the Chinese and Indian markets. Despite the global economic slowdown, the company said it was planning to open 21 new hotels in China, 24 in India and eight in Thailand. The new hotels would create 15,000 new jobs in eight Asian countries, the company ... more China expresses deep concern over US trade protectionism 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 16, 2009China said on Monday it was deeply concerned over trade protectionist measures a range of countries were adopting amid the economic crisis, singling out the United States for special criticism. Following a "Buy American" clause in the huge US economic stimulus package and an Indian ban on Chinese toys, China's commerce ministry warned it was looking to the World Trade Organisation to guard ... more Iran To Launch First Manned Spaceflight By 2021 
Tehran, Iran (RIA) Feb 16, 2009Iran will send its first man into space on board its own spacecraft by 2021, the head of Iran's Aerospace Agency announced on Thursday. "Scientific research has already begun in Iran," Reza Tagipur was quoted by Iranian media as saying. "According to our plans, a successful Iranian manned spaceflight will be carried out before 2021. India and China were able to send their astronaut ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 12, 2009Pakistan holds the key to defusing tensions with nuclear rival India by executing a serious clampdown on Islamic militants, US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said Thursday. Without such action from Islamabad, President Barack Obama's new chief of intelligence told Congress, New Delhi could feel compelled to ignite a wider conflict in a region already fraught with security ... more Russian navy captures 10 Somali pirates: spokesman 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 13, 2009A Russian nuclear-powered cruiser has captured 10 Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean armed with grenade launchers, automatic rifles and landmines, a navy spokesman said Friday. "The nuclear cruiser Pyotr Veliky has detained three small pirate boats," said Igor Dygalo, adding that 10 armed men of Somali citizenship were seized in the operation Thursday. The pirates had been spotted by the ... more Indian radioactive metal found in Germany 
Berlin (AFP) Feb 14, 2009German authorities have discovered more than 150 tonnes of radioactive metal imported from India, the environment ministry said Saturday, adding the material posed no environmental or health threat. Information about the material came from various German states, a ministry spokeswoman said, partly confirming a report to be published in Monday's edition of Der Spiegel. "The situation is ... more India's Space Programme Poised For Big Leap 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Feb 12, 2009India'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 ... more
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