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Blizzard dumps snow on flooded North Dakota Fargo, North Dakota (AFP) March 25, 2009 
A heavy blizzard dumped wet snow on volunteers rushing to fill sandbags and build temporary dikes to hold off rising flood waters in North Dakota Wednesday as officials prepared to use explosives to break up ice jams on swelling rivers. President Barack Obama issued a federal disaster declaration for 34 counties and two Indian reservations and the entire state was under a major flood warning ... read more
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Indian Ocean Temperature Link To Bushfires
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2009The weather conditions that lead to Victoria's past two major bushfires may be linked to lower than normal sea-surface temperatures in the eastern Indian Ocean, according to researchers from CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship. The Ash Wednesday bushfires in February 1983 and the Black Saturday bushfires in February of this year were preceded by months of very dry conditi ... more Shuttle undocks from space station, heads home 
Washington (AFP) March 25, 2009The US shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday to begin its return to Earth, NASA said. After an eight-day stay, Discovery detached from its bay at the orbiting laboratory on schedule at 1953 GMT, as they passed 217 miles (350 kilometers) above the Indian Ocean. "Houston, we have a physical separation," said a member of the shuttle crew, according ... more India scraps attack helicopter tender: official 
New Delhi (AFP) March 24, 2009India said Tuesday it had scrapped a tender for 22 attack helicopters as three international firms vying for the multi-million-dollar deal had been unable to meet the military's requirements. "The request for the proposal (RFP) was cancelled last week after the three companies could not meet the qualitative requirements," Indian defence ministry spokesman Sitanshu Kar told AFP. "A fresh ... more India-US 'move beyond' nuclear row -- for now 
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2009The United States and India have "moved beyond" bitter differences on nuclear weapons, a senior US official said, but more feuds could be on the horizon as President Barack Obama takes a harder anti-nuclear stance. The world's two largest democracies both say they are ready for a deeper alliance, eyeing coordination on top priorities for Obama such as battling climate change and bringing sta ... more Climate scientists admit defeat in ocean experiment 
Berlin (AFP) March 24, 2009Indian and German scientists have said that a controversial experiment has "dampened hopes" that dumping hundreds of tonnes of dissolved iron in the Southern Ocean can lessen global warming. The experiment involved "fertilising" a 300-square-kilometre (115-sqare-mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy - an immense rotating column of water - with six tonnes of dissolved iron. ... more |
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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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