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 New Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2009 
India said Wednesday it would step up its food distribution programme for the poor as a widening drought threatened to cut rice production by 10 percent and sharply reduce sugar supplies. Agriculture and Food Minister Sharad Pawar also said the government would consider releasing wheat and rice from its reserves into the open market if their prices, which have already shot higher, increase ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2009India, whose nuclear pariah status ended last year, could obtain 50 percent of its power from atomic energy by 2050, the country's nuclear chief said in an interview published Wednesday. India, which emerged from decades of nuclear isolation in 2008 when it signed a civilian technology supply agreement with the United States, now gets less than three percent of its energy needs from atomic ... more
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London (AFP) Aug 19, 2009Britain should review all arms export licences to Sri Lanka in the wake of the recently-ended war with Tamil Tiger rebels, lawmakers said Wednesday. Ministers should also provide full details of what British arms were used by Sri Lankan forces during the conflict, the Committees on Arms Export Controls said in its annual report. "We recommend that the government ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2009Global 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 ... 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 (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  
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 16, 2009Crops are shrivelling as India faces the spectre of drought but economists say they are still upbeat about the country's economic prospects. They are banking that a strong industrial performance will help offset the impact of the worst monsoon in years in Asia's third largest economy. Analysts have been buoyed by new data showing industrial production jumped by 7.8 percent in June from ... more |
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