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 Mumbai (AFP) July 15, 2009 
Heavy monsoon rains have brought relief to India's financial and entertainment capital Mumbai, helping to ease a water shortage but causing flooding in many parts of the city and travel chaos. A lack of consistent rain since the start of the monsoon season in June left levels dangerously low at the lakes that supply the city with 3.3 billion litres (872 billion US gallons) a day and prompted ... read more 
Washington (AFP) July 15, 2009The United States hoped Wednesday that India will soon announce the location of two sites for US firms to build multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants, in line with a landmark deal struck last year. The announcement could be made when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mumbai and New Delhi from Friday through Monday, according to Robert Blake, her point man for relations with In ... more
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Beijing (AFP) July 14, 2009The deadly unrest in China's remote Xinjiang region is strikingly similar to that seen in neighbouring Tibet last year, and so are many of the reasons behind it, experts say. Those at the centre of recent violence in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, and the unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa 16 months earlier are ethnic minorities -- Muslim Uighurs and Buddhist Tibetans. Both lashed ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 If all goes as planned, India, according to various reports, will soon join the exclusive club of nations with their own domestically built nuclear-powered submarines, marking a giant leap for its naval defense. More than 20 years in the making and until now known only as the Advanced Technology Vehicle project, the Indian navy's new nuclear-powered submarine named INS Chakra is ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 Israel Aerospace Industries, the flagship of Israel's defense industry, was "discouraged" by the United States from collaborating with Swedish plane maker Saab to develop a variant of the Gripen strike aircraft for the Indian air force, according to Jane's Defense Weekly. The London-based magazine quoted Israeli officials as confirming industry reports that pressure from the Pentagon ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) July 13, 2009India is set to begin sea trials of its first nuclear-powered submarine later this month, joining an elite club that includes neighbouring giant China, defence ministry officials said Monday. The Indian-developed submarine, which would provide the South Asian nation with an underwater ballistic missile launch capability, will begin trials in the Bay of Bengal, off the southern Indian city of ... more |
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jul 8, 2009 Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistan-based Islamist organization blamed for the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, appears to be challenging al-Qaida as the spearhead of the global jihad, thanks in large part to hefty funding from its networks in the Gulf. According to the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that monitors international terrorism, Indian intelligence investigation ... more 
Mumbai (AFP) July 8, 2009India's financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 percent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on Wednesday that left some streets and homes flooded. The civic authorities in Mumbai introduced the reduction on Tuesday as levels ran "precariously low" at the six lakes that supply the city's 18 million population with 3.3 billion litres ... more  
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009Major polluting nations watered down their ambitions to tackle global warming at a G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday despite growing pressure to set tough targets to cut pollution. The Group of Eight leading industrialised nations and other major economies -- including China and India -- dropped a pledge to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a European Union official said. ... more 
Jerusalem (AFP) July 6, 2009Israel has dropped out of a multi-billion dollar joint venture with a Swedish firm to develop new fighter jets for India because of US pressure, a newspaper reported on Monday. Israel Aerospace Industries was planning to develop a new model of the Swedish-made Gripen fighter jet with its manufacturer, Saab, to compete in a tender to sell the planes to India's armed forces, the Jerusalem ... more |
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