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 New Delhi, India (PTI) Sep 11, 2009 
India's maiden moon mission has captured a halo around the site where US spacecraft Apollo-15 had landed on the lunar surface nearly four decades ago. The Terrain Mapping Camera onboard Chandrayaan-I has detected a halo around the Apollo-15 landing site on the moon which scientists claim was because of the surface disturbance caused by humans. The halo has been reported earlier by ... read more 
Bandarban, Bangladesh (UPI) Sep 10, 2009 A new study in Bangladesh suggests tigecycline -- the first member of a new class of antibiotics -- might be effective against multi-drug-resistant malaria. Researchers said tigecycline shows significant anti-malarial activity on its own and can be administered in combination with traditional anti-malarial drugs. The increasing drug resistance of Plasmodium falciparum, one of the ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) Sept 10, 2009India's monsoon rains have strengthened in recent weeks, easing a drought that has hit large swathes of the country, though some areas remain severely affected, the weather office said Thursday. "There have been rains in the past couple of weeks. We are expecting good rains in the next couple of days and a further lessening of the deficiency," weather office spokesman B.P. Yadav told AFP. ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 10, 2009A Chandrayaan-1 moon mission payload has enabled scientists to study the interaction between the solar wind and a planetary body like moon without a magnetic field, a meeting convened by ISRO was told. The payload in question is a joint one of Sweden and India - Sub KeV Atom Reflecting Analyser (SARA) which covered the entire lunar surface several times, ISRO said in a statement at the end ... more  
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Sep 9, 2009 A China-bound United Arab Emirates transport plane laden with weapons and detained in Kolkata, India, earlier this week has been give the nod for release. A statement from the Ministry of External Affairs said New Delhi would "facilitate early release of the aircraft" and resolve the matter "in the spirit of the close and friendly ties between India and the UAE." Indian officials ... more |
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Kolkata (AFP) Sept 7, 2009 Indian authorities have detained a United Arab Emirates airforce plane that landed in Kolkata on its way to China after discovering arms and explosives on board, airport officials said Monday. The military transport plane was given permission to land in Kolkata on Sunday to refuel on its way to Hanyang, part of the city of Wuhan in China's Hubei province, from Abu Dhabi, but did not declare ... more  
Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) Sept 7, 2009A herd of elephants in India has forced 500 villagers to flee to relief camps after the wild animals killed at least seven people and trampled hundreds of homes, officials said Monday. Angry residents blockaded a major highway last week to demand action against the marauding elephants, which have been causing chaos for more than a month. The relief camps opened on Sunday near the village ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 7, 2009Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium. The strategy, spelt out in a government paper published last week, will see New Delhi reach out to Mongolia, Namibia and Kazakhstan besides traditional allies like Russia in its search for the ... more |
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