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China retains WTO option in trade disputes with India New Delhi (AFP) March 19, 2009 
China warned Thursday it could still drag India to the World Trade Organisation over toy and other trade rows but said it hoped to settle the disagreements bilaterally. "We do not rule out litigation at the WTO," Chinese Vice-Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said after talks in New Delhi with Commerce Secretary G.K. Pillai, referring to the toy, anti-dumping and other disagreements with India ... read more
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Russian Chinese Asymmetric Anti-aircraft Missile Capabilities: F-22 Vital Part Four
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 The balance in international military power may be shifting again. In the last two years, Russia, India and China have all announced or clarified major defense programs that include everything from the development of advanced fighters to upgrading aircraft carriers. It turns out that adversaries took careful note of the way the United States and its allies used air dominance in all its ... more Despair as California's Central Valley dries up 
Firebaugh, California (AFP) March 18, 2009"Now we know how the Indians felt," sighed Jim Diedrich, a farmer who said he was betrayed by the government as California's Central Valley reels from a serious drought. Diedrich, whose family has farmed in the western US state since 1882, bitterly surveyed their 640-acre (260-hectare) stretch of land. What would usually be a tomato field has now been reduced to a dusty expanse dotted wi ... more Frankincense Oil - A Wise Man's Remedy For Bladder Cancer 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Originating from Africa, India, and the Middle East, frankincense oil has been found to have many medicinal benefits. Now, an enriched extract of the Somalian Frankincense herb Boswellia carteri has been shown to kill off bladder cancer cells. Research presented in the open access journal, BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, demonstrates that this herb has the potential for an alte ... more US approves sale of anti-sub planes to India 
Washington (AFP) March 17, 2009Washington has approved the sale to India of eight Boeing anti-submarine aircraft, a 2.1 billion dollar transaction which would be the largest ever sale of US arms to India, the State Department said Tuesday. "The Department of State has notified Congress of the potential sale of eight P8i long-range maritime reconnaissance, anti-submarine warfare aircraft to the government of India," State ... more New bacteria discovered in stratosphere 
Hyderabad, India (UPI) Mar 17, 2009 Scientists in India say they've found three species of bacteria in the stratosphere, all of which are alien to Earth and resistant to ultraviolet radiation. One of the species has been named Janibacter hoylei, after the late astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. The others are named Bacillus isronensis, recognizing the contribution of the Indian Space Research Organization in the balloon experimen ... more |
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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 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 |
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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 India lifts Chinese toy ban, demands safety guarantees 
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
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