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Prithvi ABM hits target missile Washington (UPI) Mar 11,2009 
India took another step Friday toward joining the elite club of nations that have developed their own anti-ballistic interceptor systems. But it has a long way to go yet. The Indian Ministry of Defense announced in a statement that it had successfully carried out the third test firing of a Prithvi Air Defense anti-ballistic missile interceptor in the past three years. The test was carri ... read more
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Dalai Lama says Chinese-ruled Tibet 'hell on earth'
Dharamshala, India (AFP) March 10, 2009Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama accused China of having brought "hell on earth" to his homeland in a speech Tuesday on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising. As Chinese authorities deployed a massive security force across the Tibetan plateau to prevent protests, he demanded "meaningful autonomy" for the region in a speech at his exile base in northern India. ... more Study: Solar water heating good investment 
Maharashtra, India (UPI) Mar 10, 2009 Scientists in India say they have analyzed the engineering and economics of a solar water-heating system and determined it is a good investment. Vivek Khambalkar, Sharashchandra Gadge and Dhiraj Karale at the Deshmukh Agricultural University in Maharashtra, India, determined the 264,172-gallon (1,000 liter) solar water-heating system at a university hostel had a payback period of only t ... more Rapidly Developed Ship-Tracking Satellite Approaches One Year On Orbit 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Canada's first foray into ship tracking from space has been tremendously successful. Nanosatellite Tracking of Ships (NTS), otherwise known as Canadian Advanced Nanospace eXperiment 6 (CanX-6), a 6.5 kg, 20-cm cubical satellite, was conceived in October 2007, completed only six months later in March 2008, and launched on 28 April 2008 on board Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) C9 from India. ... more Indo Power Afloat In The 21st Century Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 6, 2009 "Anti-piracy operations" have given China's People's Liberation Army navy the best excuse to penetrate the Indian Ocean and station forces there permanently. As fighting piracy around the Gulf of Aden becomes a long-term mission, the PLA navy South Sea Fleet is likely to set up a sub-fleet to handle that task -- perhaps the "Indian Ocean Sub-fleet of the South Sea Fleet" -- and the PLA ... more India tests interceptor missile 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) March 6, 2009India staged a missile intercept test Friday as part of a plan to build a defence system against incoming ballistic missiles by 2010, officials said. Military engineers said the test was a success as a "hostile" missile was destroyed in mid-air over the Bay of Bengal off India's eastern Orissa state. Friday's test was the third successful trial since 2007 of an air defence system capable ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) March 2, 2009India's government lifted a ban Monday on imports of Chinese toys that had stoked trade tensions between the world's two biggest emerging economies. But it imposed strict demands for product safety guarantees. India announced the six-month ban in January, prompting Beijing to warn that "bilateral trade relations could be seriously impacted". The Indian trade ministry, which had made ... more Top Scientist Slams ISRO For Delay In Indo-Israeli Mission 
Ramnath Shenoy, India (PTI) Mar 02, 2009A top astrophysicist, spearheading an Indo-Israeli venture to launch a set of three telescopes aboard an indigenous satellite, has accused the Indian Space Research Organisation of delay in undertaking the mission, and expressed fears that relevance of data might be in jeopardy. Tauvex is an Indo-Israeli ultraviolet imaging experiment that will image large parts of the sky in a particular ... more India slams Pakistan "denial" over Mumbai sea link 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 27, 2009India rejected Friday a claim by Pakistan's naval chief that the lone surviving alleged gunmen in the Mumbai attacks did not enter India from Pakistani waters. The naval chief Noman Bashir said that Pakistan had "no evidence whatsoever that (the gunman) Ajmal Kasab had gone to India from Pakistani territorial waters." But Pakistan was engaging in "multiple speak, duplicity and denial" an ... more Global warming could delay, weaken monsoons: study 
Chicago (AFP) March 1, 2009Global warming could delay the start of the summer monsoon by five to 15 days within the next century and significantly reduce rainfall in much of South Asia, a recent study has found. Rising global temperatures will likely lead to an eastward shift in monsoon circulation which could result in more rainfall over the Indian Ocean, Myanmar and Bangladesh but less over Pakistan, India and Nepal ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama has reiterated his wishes to visit Taiwan in an interview with a Taiwanese cable news channel broadcast here on Wednesday. "I am very eager since my first and second visit," he said in an interview in India with FTV, referring to his historic first trip to Taiwan in March 1997 and again in 2001, both times triggering strong condemnation from China. ... more India's Cryogenic Engine Set For Integration With Rocket 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 25, 2009The indigenous cryogenic engine that would make India totally self-reliant in all aspects of space launch vehicle technology is set to be integrated with the indigenous Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV). "Now, it is getting ready for flight and I hope by the middle of the year, we should be able to make a launch", Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation ... more Indian Air Force on alert after Colombo raid: report 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 21, 2009The 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. ... more 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
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