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As the U.N. summit on climate change was set to open today in New York -- the largest gathering of world leaders on the issue -- India and China were still standing firm against setting binding targets on emissions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has characterized the summit as "the defining challenge of our time." It leads up to the December climate change conference in Copenhagen ... read more 
Sriharikota, India (ANI) Sep 22, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started the countdown for the launch of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) on Monday. The PSLV - C -14 is scheduled to launch from the Satish Dhavan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on Wednesday. The PSLV, the most trusted launch vehicle of the ISRO would carry the 960 kilograms indigenous Oceansat 2 and six other nano ... more
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Guwahati, India (AFP) Sept 21, 2009A 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 ... 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 
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 |
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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  
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 |
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