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One Step Closer To Finding The Higgs Boson Bloomington IN (SPX) Mar 17, 2009 
Six Indiana University physicists collaborating with researchers from around the world have helped move mankind one step closer to finding the Higgs boson, the still unidentified particle predicted by the Standard Model to be the origin of mass for all elementary particles. Former graduate student Leah Welty-Rieger, post-doctoral fellow Nirmalya Parua, research scientist Daria Zieminska, a ... read more
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US looking to retool Pakistan relationship
Washington (AFP) March 13, 2009Former president George W. Bush recast the US relationship with India, forging closer ties. Could President Barack Obama do the same for US policy towards its nuclear-armed rival Pakistan? Upon taking office January 20, Obama ordered a sweeping review of the US strategy for fighting the war in Afghanistan, and US military and diplomatic officials say the road to victory there runs through ne ... more Indian envoy sees close ties with Obama 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009A senior Indian envoy voiced confidence Wednesday of close cooperation with US President Barack Obama, even though the administration has focused first on Asian heavyweights China and Japan. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon, wrapping up talks in Washington, said the world's two largest democracies would work together on a range of issues including bringing stability to Afghanistan -- a k ... more Singapore firm in running for key India arms contract: report 
Singapore (AFP) March 12, 2009A state-linked Singapore firm is bidding for a key contract worth one billion Singapore dollars (650 million US) to supply mobile artillery to the Indian military, a newspaper said Thursday. The Straits Times quoted an unnamed Indian official as saying the South Asian giant's army was happy with an ultra-lightweight cannon from defence and engineering firm Singapore Technologies Kinetics (ST ... more 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 ... more 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 |
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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 Indian troops lock down Kashmir capital 
Srinagar (AFP) March 7, 2009Thousands of Indian police and paramilitary forces imposed tight security Saturday on Kashmir's summer capital to prevent protests over the death of a young man in a police shooting, police said. Troops sealed off neighbourhoods and patrolled the deserted streets of Srinagar, urban hub of a nearly two-decade-old revolt against New Delhi's rule of the Muslim-majority region. "We've impose ... more Asia to lead world arms spending by 2016: consultancy 
Singapore (AFP) March 5, 2009Asia is expected to outstrip the rest of the world in defence spending within seven years as China and India upgrade their armed forces, a research consultancy said here Thursday. Asia's overall defence budget will account for 32 percent of global military spending by 2016, or 480 billion US dollars, up from 24 percent in 2007, Frost and Sullivan's regional director for defence practice Rata ... more 'Albatross' gone, India offers hand to US 
Washington (AFP) March 4, 2009With a landmark nuclear deal removing an "albatross" in relations, India says it is seeking new forms of cooperation with the United States -- and sees climate change as a prime area. Ambassador Ronen Sen, who is leaving his post after four and a half years in Washington, said that the world's two largest democracies have finally turned the page on decades of mistrust. ... more |
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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 Canada orbiter gauges CO2 like failed OCO 
Ottawa (UPI) Feb 27, 2009 A $278 million NASA satellite that crashed into the Antarctic waters in a failed launch was a larger version of a $300,000 Canadian satellite, a scientist says. An 8-pound, milk-carton-size microsatellite called CanX-2, launched by the University of Toronto in India last April, monitors how carbon dioxide enters and exits the Earth's atmosphere, just as NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observator ... more Bangladesh Rifles: border guardians with a grievance 
Dhaka (AFP) Feb 26, 2009The Bangladesh Rifles, whose troops have mutinied in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere, is a well-armed paramilitary unit tagged as the country's first line of defence. With a total force of nearly 70,000 troops, the BDR's primary task is to patrol and secure Bangladesh's 4,000-kilometre (2,500-mile) border with both India and Myanmar. As a border unit, it is highly involved in anti-smuggl ... more NASA Study Finds Pre-Existing Condition Fueled Killer Cyclone 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2009A "pre-existing condition" in the North Indian Ocean stoked the sudden intensification of last year's Tropical Cyclone Nargis just before its devastating landfall in Burma, according to a new NASA/university study. The cyclone became Burma's worst natural disaster ever and one of the deadliest cyclones of all time. Scientists at the National Taiwan University, Taipei; and NASA's Jet ... more
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