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Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel Bloomington IN (SPX) May 07, 2009 
Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. Charles Horowitz, a professor in the IU College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics, came to the conclusion after large-scale molecular dynamics computer simulations were conducted at Indiana Un ... read more
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India Using ESRI Software For Image Processing
Redlands CA (SPX) May 08, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has reached an agreement with NIIT GIS Limited (ESRI India), ESRI's distributor in India, to equip its five Regional Remote Sensing Service Centres (RRSSCs) with ArcGIS Server and the Image extension. The centers in Jodhpur, Dehradun, Kharagpur, Nagpur, and Bangalore use Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite and other imagery to create thematic ... more Top ex-US diplomat likens Pakistan to Cuban missile crisis 
Mumbai (AFP) May 7, 2009The rise in Islamist militancy in Pakistan could become the biggest threat to world peace since the Cuban missile crisis, a former senior US diplomat said here Thursday. Washington's former ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, said the scale of extremism in Pakistan was now so great that it was "inevitable" that the international community would have to deal with it in the years to come. ... more Animals On Runways Can Cause Serious Problems At Small Airports 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 08, 2009It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a potentially deadly combination. A Purdue University study of 10 small Indiana airports found that animals can gain easy access to runways and infield areas, increasing the likelihood of planes striking those animals. Animal strikes received national attention in January. Commercial pilot and Purdue alumnus Charles "Sully" Sullenberger was forced to land in ... more US urges India, Israel, Pakistan, NKorea to join NPT 
United Nations (AFP) May 5, 2009A top US arms control negotiator at the United Nations on Tuesday urged presumed atomic powers India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. "Universal adherence to the NPT itself, including by India, Israel, Pakistan and North Korea ... remains a fundamental objective of the United States," said Assistant Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller. ... more India holds wargames near Pakistan border 
New Delhi (AFP) May 5, 2009The Indian military said Tuesday it has held large-scale military exercises involving its main strike corps close to the tense border with nuclear-armed rival Pakistan. The three-day manoeuvres, code-named Hind Shakti ('Indian Power'), were held in the arid plains of northern Punjab state and wrapped up on Tuesday, officials said. "The exercise entailed participation by mechanised and in ... more |
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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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