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RISAT Begins Sending Images: ISRO Kolkata, India (PTI) May 04, 2009 
The all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT), launched on April 20, has begun sending images, a top official of Indian Space Research Organisation said here on Friday. "The RISAT has begun taking images since two days ago," ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said on the sidelines of an interactive session with members of the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce. He said that the RISAT would ta ... read more
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Defense Focus: Age of wars -- Part 6
Washington (UPI) May 1, 2009 The Indian army's dependence on very large numbers of relatively low trained soldiers to maintain border security and play a major, ongoing role in its counter insurgency campaigns flies in the face of dominant U.S. military theories and fashions. The U.S. military and the generation of neoconservative security intellectuals who dominated the Department of Defense during the six-year te ... more A Bright Future With Solar Lanterns For India's Poor 
Taiwan (SPX) May 01, 2009Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University, who is Tata-Sadguru Visiting Chair, and Dr. Minna Hsu from the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Their study, looking at the benefits of solar lanterns ... more Defense Focus: Age of wars -- Part 5 
Washington, April 27, 2009 India has poor special forces, but its enormous manpower gives it a powerful advantage in maintaining security and fighting guerrilla conflicts. This model flies in the face of the fashionable and currently widely accepted theories of military force deployment and weapons procurement spearheaded by the United States and followed by almost of all of the major industrialized democracies. ... more Outside View: If Pakistan fails -- Part 2 
Lusaka, Zambia, April 27, 2009 The terror attacks last November in Mumbai, the economic and cultural capital of India, helped focus the international community on the sources of terrorism in South Asia. The Indian government and security services believe the attackers, who came by sea, were trained and equipped in mujahedin camps in northern Pakistan. For those who had ignored the progressive radicalization of Pakist ... more EF Johnson Technologies Highlights New Products At Fire Services Conference 
Irving TX (SPX) Apr 24, 2009EF Johnson Technologies has announced that it will highlight its award-winning ES Series of Project 25 radios and new products including the Lightning Control Head for the 5300 Series Mobile Radio and the Discover GPS Speaker Microphone for the 5100 ES Series Portable Radio at the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) April 23 - 25, 2009 at the Indiana Convention Center. "Our award ... more |
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New Delhi (PTI) Apr 17, 2009The Biophysics section of the Department of Physics of the University of Pune (UoP) has tied up with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a satellite named Space Recovery Experiment II (SRE-II) into space to study the effects of micro gravity on the production of rice. The experiment is the brainchild of Pandit Vidyasagar, head of the biophysics section, and will be sent ... more India says France's Dassault out of 12-bln dollar fighter deal 
New Delhi (AFP) April 16, 2009India has decided not to buy Rafale fighters from French firm Dassault Aviation as part of a 12 billion dollar upgrade of its air force, an Indian defence ministry official said Thursday. The official said the company, one of six contenders in the race for the mammoth contract, had failed to meet India's technical requirements. "The Rafale is out of the race for the tender process, becau ... more Indian Lunar Orbiter Sends Back Images To Establish Water Presence On Moon 
New Delhi (XNA) Apr 16, 2009A radar imaging camera on board Indian lunar orbiter, Chandrayaan-1, has sent back some amazing images which will give scientists definite clues about the presence or absence of water on the Moon surface, according to a report by local tabloid Mail Today Friday. The camera, known as Mini- SAR, is one of the key payloads of the mission and has been developed by scientists from the United St ... more India tests nuclear-capable missile: official 
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) April 15, 2009India Wednesday successfully tested a short-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile from a facility in eastern Orissa state, defence sources said. The test of an improved version of Prithvi-II (Earth) was carried out from Integrated Testing Range at Chandipur-on-sea, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) northeast of state capital Bhubaneswar. "It was a user trial of the army version of the 15 ... more |
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Antananarivo (AFP) April 7, 2009Three people were killed and 800 made homeless by tropical cyclone Jade on the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar, the authorities said Tuesday. "Two children and their mother died when their house collapsed" in a northern neighbourhood of the capital Antananarivo, a statement issued by Madagascar's disaster management authority said. Jane made landfall on Monday in the northeaster ... more Asia forking out on defence despite slowdown: experts 
Singapore (AFP) April 5, 2009Increased military spending by China and India is forcing other Asia-Pacific countries to modernise their armed forces despite the severe impact of the global financial crisis, experts say. Data from defence research firm Jane's Information Group estimates total military spending in the region rising year-on-year - from about 220 billion dollars in 2008 to 239 billion dollars this year and ... more Analysis: Energy Dept. stimulus grants 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 06, 2009Federal officials recently announced a $3.2 billion investment in energy-efficiency projects nationwide aimed at simultaneously boosting and cleaning the economy. Approximately 23,000 U.S. cities, counties, territories and American Indian tribes, plus all 50 states, are eligible for money from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program, funded by the economic stimulus bi ... more Pakistan welcomes Obama call for India dialogue: ministry 
Islamabad (AFP) April 3, 2009Pakistan called Friday for a resumption of talks with India, welcoming a call from US President Barack Obama to cool tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours with an "effective dialogue". "We hope that the US and other friends of Pakistan and India will encourage and facilitate this process," foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said in a statement released in response to Obama's comm ... more
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