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 Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2009 
Global warming could prove devastating for the Tibetan plateau, the world's third-largest store of ice, but it helps farming and tourism, Chinese state media said Tuesday, citing a leading expert. Qin Dahe, the former head of the China Meteorological Administration, made the comment in an otherwise gloomy assessment of the impact that rising temperatures will have on Tibet, according to the ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 18, 2009India's finance minister said Tuesday he was confident the economy would grow by more than six percent this year despite widespread drought and the global economic downturn. "This year, we are projecting six percent plus growth," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters. The forecast came despite monsoon rains that are 29 percent below normal in India, where rural consumers are ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 18, 2009Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged India must tread a greener path Tuesday, even as he blamed rich nations for expecting developing countries to pay for decades of environmental neglect. "Our growth strategy can be and should be innovative and different," Singh told a meeting of state environment ministers in New Delhi. "We can and we must walk a different road, an environment ... more  
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2009India and Russia have finished the design of a second unmanned lunar orbiter to be sent to the Moon in 2011-2012, the Indian Express newspaper said on Monday. The paper quoted Madhavan Nair, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as saying in Bangalore on Sunday: "Right now, the design has been completed. We had a joint review with Russian scientists here." ... more  
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 17, 2009India on Monday began the trials of fighter jets being hawked by the world's six top aerospace giants vying for a 12-billion-dollar military contract, officials said. The sale of 126 combat planes to the technology-starved Indian Air Force will be the world's most lucrative fighter jet contract in more than a decade. Military air traffic controllers said Boeing kicked off the trials with ... more |
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Washington (PTI) Aug 14, 2009The US has allowed ISRO to launch Algerian satellites having American components using an Indian launch vehicle following a Technical Safeguards Agreement (TSA) between the two countries. A Technical Safeguards Agreement, covering launches of satellites having US components on Indian launch vehicles, was signed between India and the US on July 20 during the US Secretary of State Hillary ... more 
Mumbai, India (SPX) Aug 14, 2009India plans to power some parts of the Chandrayaan II--its next unmanned mission to the moon- with nuclear energy and the feasibility studies are being carried out by Indian Space Research Organisation and Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. "We are thinking of powering some parts of Chandrayaan II with nuclear power and it will power the spacecraft when it revolves aroung the dark side of the ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2009Beneath northern India's irrigated fields of wheat, rice, and barley ... beneath its densely populated cities of Jaiphur and New Delhi, the groundwater has been disappearing. Halfway around the world, hydrologists, including Matt Rodell of NASA, have been hunting for it. Where is northern India's underground water supply going? According to Rodell and colleagues, it is being pumped and con ... more |
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