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One of the biggest glaciers in the southern hemisphere shrivelled by a fifth in 40 years, French scientists said on Wednesday. The Cook glacier on Kerguelen, an island in France's southern Indian Ocean territories, covered 501 square kilometres (193 square miles) in 1963. Combining satellite images with other data, glaciologists from the Laboratory for Studying Geophysics and Space Ocean ... read more 
Bangalore, India (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Chandrayaan-1, India's first mission to Moon, launched on October 22, 2008 from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, has completed eight months of successful operation and has made 3,000 revolutions around the Moon. Besides sending more than 70,000 images of the lunar surface which provide breathtaking views of lunar mountains and craters, especially craters in the permanently shadowed ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) July 21, 2009India's air force will scramble a fighter jet and a transport plane filled with scientists to photograph and monitor Wednesday's total solar eclipse as it races across the country. The Indian scientists will take off from the Taj Mahal town of Agra on a Russian AN-32 transporter and follow the shadow of the eclipse northwest until the central town of Khajuraho, the air force said. ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 22, 2009SES AMERICOM-NEW SKIES has announced MTN Satellite Services has signed a multi-year capacity agreement to meet growing demand for connectivity and content aboard cruise liners, military ships, yachts and other vessels operating throughout the Indian Ocean region. MTN is a SeaMobile company and a leading provider of satellite communications services to the maritime industry and remote ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 21, 2009 If Pakistan can claim to have succeeded in convincing India to drop its key objection to resume bilateral peace dialogue stalled since last November's Mumbai terror carnage, the United States has been careful not to take any credit for it at least publicly for fear of offending India. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her maiden visit to India since taking up her post, made it ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) July 21, 2009A delay to Bangladesh's monsoon season is posing a severe risk of drought in the impoverished nation and threatening food supplies, officials warned Tuesday. Monsoon rains normally sweep Bangladesh from June to September and the South Asian country gets more than 75 percent of its annual rainfall during this period but a lack of rain is hampering crop potential. "For weeks there have ... more |
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New Delhi (UPI) Jul 20, 2009 India and the United States have agreed on partnerships regarding energy efficiency, but India is standing firm on legal limits on greenhouse gases as a result of climate-change talks between the two countries. uring her first official visit to India, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met for closed-door sessions Sunday with India's Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) July 20, 2009India was set Monday to reveal where US firms will build multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants, during Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's first official talks in New Delhi, aides said. The move, once confirmed, will highlight benefits President Barack Obama's administration will derive from a landmark civilian nuclear deal sealed under his predecessor George W. Bush. It will also ... more  
Tehran (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 Submarine warfare seems to be in vogue in the Middle East these days, with Israel leading the way. Iran, Algeria and Egypt are also planning to acquire new submarines that could operate in the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. Israel's surprise deployment of one of its German-built Dolphin boats, the 1,500-ton Leviathan, in the Red Sea in late June under ... more 
Islamabad (AFP) July 18, 2009Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Saturday said that dialogue with India was the only way forward for the nuclear-armed rivals if they want to beat the militants. "If we do not go for dialogue that means that we strengthen terrorism," Gilani told a press conference in Islamabad he had called to brief the media about his meeting this week with Indian premier Manmohan Singh. ... more |
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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans
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