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India buys Israeli spy satellite: report New Delhi (AFP) March 20, 2009 
India has bought a spy satellite from Israel with day-and-night viewing capability to boost surveillance capabilities in the aftermath of the Mumbai militant attacks, a report said Friday. The satellite, which can see through clouds and carry out day-and-night all-weather imaging, has been one of the long-standing demands of the Indian military, the NDTV news channel said. The 300 kilogram ... read more
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India warns Obama on nuclear test ban treaty
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009India on Monday warned it would oppose the UN treaty banning nuclear tests, calling it disciminatory, despite President Barack Obama's hopes that the United States will ratify it. Shyam Saran, India's special envoy on nuclear issues, conceded on a visit to Washington that the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) could prove to be a "contentious" issue with the new US administration. ... more OECD expects world economy to shrink in 2009 
Beijing (AFP) March 20, 2009The world economy is likely to shrink in 2009 despite growth in Asian powerhouses China and India, the head of the OECD Angel Gurria said Friday, warning of a first global contraction in 60 years. "Now we are probably seeing a world which will go negative because even the positive growth of India and China is not going to be enough to offset the negative growth in (developed countries)," he ... more India Set To Launch Imaging Satellite With Israeli Support 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Mar 23, 2009India is all set to launch a radar imaging satellite (RISAT) built with "substantial inputs" from the Israel aerospace industry from Sriharikota spaceport, an ISRO official said. Israel has supplied Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which is in fact "heart" of the 1780-kg remote sensing satellite, the official told PTI on condition of anonymity. "Israel has supplied substantial systems," the ... more China retains WTO option in trade disputes with India 
New Delhi (AFP) March 19, 2009China 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 ... more 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 |
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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 One Step Closer To Finding The Higgs Boson 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Mar 17, 2009Six 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 ... more 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 |
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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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