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New Evidence That Meteorite Did Not Wipe Out Dinosaurs Princeton NJ (SPX) May 05, 2009 
A Princeton University geoscientist who has stirred controversy with her studies challenging a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs has compiled powerful new evidence asserting her position.
Gerta Keller, whose studies of rock formations at many sites in the United States, Mexico and India have led her to conclude that volcanoes, not a vast meteorite, were the more likel ... read more
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Indian Ocean buoys help predict monsoon: scientists
Washington (AFP) May 4, 2009Scientists said Monday they had reached the halfway point in a project to set up buoys across the Indian Ocean, helping farmers predict the monsoon in some of the world's poorest areas. The buoys measure wind, rainfall, temperature and other figures around the Indian Ocean, which has lagged behind the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in data collection. The international project, which began ... more RISAT Begins Sending Images: ISRO 
Kolkata, India (PTI) May 04, 2009The 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 ... more 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 Catalyx And Ramona Tribe Start Work Renewable Energy Eco Tourism Resort 
Anaheim CA (SPX) May 04, 2009Catalyx has been contracted to be the technology provider and will team with the Ramona Band of the Cahuilla Indian Tribe to develop the Tribe's Eco-Tourism resort near Anza, Calif. The first of its kind, the Ramona Band of Cahuilla Mission Native Americans' resort is designed as a 100% off-grid renewable energy project that will employ multiple alternative energy technologies to meet 100% ... 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 |
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Durham NC (SPX) Apr 20, 2009A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly fewer deaths than villages that were less protected. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delhi and Duke University, analyzed deaths in 409 villages in the poor, mostly rural ... more New Discovery Poses Challenge To Galaxy Formation Theories 
Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 17, 2009A team led by an Indiana University astronomer has found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest they may have formed relatively recently. This would run counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way Galaxy) began their formation and evolution shortly after the Big Bang, some 13 billion years ago. Further research into the ... more ISRO Set For SpySat Launch Monday
Chennai, India (SPX) Apr 17, 2009India's defence surveillance capabilities will get a quantum boost Monday with the launch of a sophisticated spy satellite that can see through fog and clouds, a facility that has been hitherto unavailable. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) workhorse polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) that will soar aloft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, 80 km from here, w ... more India Using Using Satellite To Study Rice 
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 |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 14, 2009NASA satellite data and a new modeling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along low-lying coastlines, the storms have caused nearly 80 percent of cyclone-related deaths around the world. Incomplete atmospher ... more Bangladesh experts to investigate India dam plan 
Dhaka (AFP) April 13, 2009Bangladesh said Monday it would send experts to India to investigate claims a proposed dam in northeastern Assam state would dry up downstream tributaries crucial for farmers. Bangladesh has for five years protested against the dam at Tipaimukh because of fears it would affect the flow of water in the Meghna, its third largest river and one of the main sources of water for the eastern part ... more Cyclone Jade kills nine in Madagascar 
Antananarivo (AFP) April 8, 2009At least nine people have been killed and more than 33,300 rendered homeless by tropical cyclone Jade on the Indian Ocean island nation of Madagascar, the authorities said Friday. A previous toll had reported eight deaths. The latest victim died in a landslide at Nosy Varika on the east coast, which seriously injured three other people said the National Office for the Management of Risks and ... more Cyclone Jade kills three in Madagascar 
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
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