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 Mumbai (AFP) Sept 15, 2009 
It's a question that has left the best minds in India scratching their heads: how to harvest the coconut crop when no one either wants or knows how to climb trees any more. But officials in Kerala, the southern agricultural state famed for laid-back tourism at its tropical beaches, are hoping new technology can be harnessed to solve the problem. They have announced a six-month ... read more 
London (UPI) Sep 14, 2009 The Somali pirates preying on shipping in the Gulf of Aden and more recently the Indian Ocean are zeroed in on their targets by well-placed informers in London, a world center for shipbroking and insurance, using satellite phones, according to a European military intelligence report. The document, which was obtained by Cadena SER, a Spanish radio station, says the "consultants" in ... more
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Dharamshala, India (AFP) Sept 14, 2009The Dalai Lama hopes to meet Barack Obama after the US president's maiden presidential trip to China in November, according to a statement issued after talks with US officials Monday. The statement from the Tibetan spiritual leader's office appeared to end speculation about whether the Nobel Peace Prize winner would meet Obama during a scheduled trip from India to the United States next ... more  
Guwahati, India (PTI) Sep 14, 2009NASA astronaut Edward Michael Fincke has said the Indian moon mission 'Chandrayan' was not a failure, but an "amazing success". "There is a lot of speculation about the mission being failed. On the contrary, it was a success with 95 per cent of its objectives achieved," Fincke, a veteran of two missions in the International Space Station ISS), told reporters here. "This not the ... more  
Wagah, India (AFP) Sept 12, 2009India accused Pakistani frontier troopers Saturday of firing two rockets across the border near a popular tourist attraction in northern Punjab. The shells exploded in a village farm in Indian Punjab's border Wagah region late Friday but caused no casualties, Himmat Singh, chief of India's Border Security Force (BSF) in Punjab, told reporters. "We retaliated with machine-gun fire," Singh ... more |
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 09, 2009Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Madhavan Nair has said that heat alone was not the culprit as India's maiden moon mission was called off much before its scheduled lifecycle recently. A combination of factors including radiation, caused calling off of the mission. As experts from across the country and abroad began a review of the mission here on Monday, Nair ... more  
Kolkata (AFP) Sept 8, 2009India continued to question Tuesday the crew of an arms-laden United Arab Emirates air force plane that was being detained in the eastern city of Kolkata on its way to China, officials said. The plane bound for Hanyang, in China's Hubei province, was grounded in Kolkata on Monday after arms and ammunition which had not been declared by the crew were found on board the plane from Abu Dhabi. ... more  
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Sep 08, 2009India's first lunar mission may have failed as a result of overheating, a national daily reported on Monday. Chandrayaan-1 was launched in October 2008 and its main mission was conducting geological mapping of the Moon's surface aimed at producing a complete map of the chemical characteristics and 3-D topography. Chandrayaan means Moon Craft in Sanskrit. According to The Times of ... more |
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