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A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan Monday, killing at least ten people and damaging monasteries and other buildings, state-run media reported. "Ten people were killed of which three victims are of Indian origin," Bhutan Broadcasting Service, the country's national radio reported Monday night. The three Indians died after they were hit by ... read more 
Khuria, Bangladesh (AFP) Sept 18, 2009At the end of every year, after the monsoon rains, Noor Hossain dismantles his houseboat on the Bangladeshi delta and heads to the mainland. This time he will not be coming back. Hossain is one of about 800,000 river gypsies, known locally as bedey, who for generations have lived on the nation's waterways between May and December, and on land for the rest of the year. But now he has ... more
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 18, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would launch Oceansat-2 satellite, which would help identify potential fishing zones and in coastal zone studies, on September 23 in a mission that would have European flavour. The 970-KG spacecraft would set-off by the home-grown Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from Sriharikota spaceport on the east coast, where preparations for the launch a ... more  
Frankfurt (AFP) Sept 17, 2009Indian car maker Reva unveiled two electric cars at the Frankfurt motor show this week and announced the launch in Europe of one model in early 2010 as the buzz for electric vehicles grows louder. In its first major presence at the German show, Reva presented the NXR city car that is to be built at a new plant in Bangalore and will retail for less than 10,000 euros (14,700 dollars) for a ... more  
London (UPI) Sep 17, 2009 BP is expanding its wind power electricity generation capacity in the United States but is shedding an Indian unit, which has been sold to Green Infra Limited of India. BP said Green Infra Limited purchased its subsidiary, BP Energy India Private Limited, for a total cash-free, debt-free enterprise value of about $95 million. Green Infra Limited is an independent power producer owned by ... more |
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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 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Sep 11, 2009India'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 ... more |
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