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 Colombo (AFP) Aug 17, 2009 
Sri Lanka risks further damage to its image by failing to improve conditions for tens of thousands of war-displaced people held in squalor, the island's main opposition leader said on Monday. Opposition leader and former premier Ranil Wickremesinghe warned that the spread of diseases in the camps during the current rains could worsen conditions for nearly 300,000 civilians held in camps. ... read more 
New Dehli, India (TFE) Aug 17, 2009If ambition is good, ISRO's taking on Google Earth with Bhuvan, as was reported in The Indian Express, is good. And we approve of ambition. In promising 3D satellite images of India matching anything Google Earth can offer, ISRO is not taking on a minor challenge. The US-based web giant has popularised free access to satellite images of the world's surface. Whether you are trying to snag ... more
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 17, 2009India has completed the design of Chandrayaan-2, its next mission to the moon - this time in collaboration with Russia - that would have a lander and rover which can collect samples of the lunar soil and analyse them and send back the data. "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here," Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 13, 2009 Boeing Co. appears set to move ahead with its $2.1 billion defense contract with India to supply eight P-8I long-range maritime reconnaissance planes to the Indian navy to safeguard the country's vast coastline. The contract comes under the new enhanced Indo-U.S. strategic partnership highlighted by a bilateral defense pact for modernizing India's military signed last month during ... more  
Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2009Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade - and they believe human consumption is almost entirely to blame. More than 109 cubic kilometers (26 cubic miles) of groundwater disappeared from the region's aquifers between 2002 and 2008 - double the capacity of ... more |
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Lima (AFP) Aug 13, 2009At least seven cases of swine flu have been confirmed among Amazon Indians in Peru, raising concern about the potential for spread of the virus among the isolated tribes, experts said. The London-based group Survival International said the cases of A(H1N1) were found in the Matsigenka tribe living along the Urubamba River in the Peruvian Amazon. "The arrival of swine flu amongst the ... more  
Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 14, 2009NXP Semiconductors has announced a development partnership with Tata BP Solar India, a joint venture of BP Solar and Tata Power, under which Tata BP intends to use various electronic solutions for solar applications developed by NXP. These solutions have been developed by NXP as per the requirements of Tata BP. K Subramanya, CEO of TATA BP Solar, and Rene Penning de Vries, CTO of NXP ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Aug 12, 2009The international community has limited leverage over Myanmar because of the ruling junta's close links with its powerful neighbours China, India and Thailand, analysts say. The reclusive state sparked global outrage when it extended the house arrest of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi for 18 months Tuesday, but analysts said its ties with the three Asian nations acted as a buffer to any fore ... more |
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