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 New Delhi (AFP) Sept 30, 2009 
India has suffered its worst drought since 1972, the official weather office said on Wednesday, with rains 23 percent below average at the end of the country's four-month monsoon season. "India's 2009 monsoon rainfall has been the worst since 1972," a spokesperson for the Meteorological Department, P.K. Bandhopadhyay, told AFP. In 1972, monsoon rainfall was 24 percent below average, he ... read more 
New Delhi (UPI) Sep 30, 2009 India aims to boost its nuclear energy capacity by 12,000 percent by 2050. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in making the announcement Tuesday at a New Delhi conference on peaceful uses of nuclear power, predicted that India could produce 470 gigawatts of nuclear power. That would make India the largest nuclear energy producer in the world, surpassing the United States, which now ... more
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Badrahani, Nepal (AFP) Sept 29, 2009Nepalese villager Khinu Darai used to have to walk about five kilometres (three miles) every day to collect firewood so she could cook meals for her family. Then two years ago, she bought a biogas plant under a government scheme to encourage villagers to convert to greener energy -- an event the 30-year-old mother of three says transformed her life. "Biogas is a blessing for my family. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2009China is second only to India worldwide in the number of people killed by rabies every year, the government has reported, making the disease one of the nation's biggest public health threats. "China is one of the countries most severely affected by rabies, and in recent years the number of annual reported deaths from rabies has averaged around 2,400," the health ministry said in a statement ... more  
Mumbai, India (SPX) Sep 28, 2009India's moon mission has proved to be quite economical and cost much less compared to what other countries have spent on their projects, mission director M Annadurai said here. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would continue to check costs in the Chandrayaan-II mission as well, he said. India's moon mission cost only about one sixth to one tenth of the cost of similar missions ... more |
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Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 25, 2009The Indian launcher Polar Space Launch Vehicle took off at 8:22 a.m. - Swiss time. Twenty minutes later, the SwissCube was ejected from the nose cone of the rocket at an altitude of around 720 kilometers. At 9:37 a.m. the first ever signals sent from a Swiss satellite in space were picked up from Stanford (California). Mission accomplished. Students and professors have been working very ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 23, 2009India's air force is just a third the size of rival China's and far short of the aircraft required to meet the security challenges it faces, the country's air force chief said Wednesday. "Our present aircraft strength is inadequate. Aircraft strength is one third that of China," said Air Chief Marshal P.V. Naik was quoted as saying by the CNN-IBN website Wednesday. "The government of ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 23, 2009India's monsoon was about 20 percent below strength just over a week before the official end of the rainy reason, putting the country on course for its worst drought since 1972, weather data showed Wednesday. "Until September 21, for the country as a whole, the rain deficiency was 22 percent," said B.K. Bandopadhyay, a spokesman for the weather office. "We expect the total rain ... more |
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