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 Chennai, India (PTI) Oct 28, 2009 
After its maiden moon mission, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to cross another milestone in December - take India into the exclusive club of countries that have developed their own cryogenic engines to power satellites in space. ISRO is hoping to end 2009 in style with the take-off of its fully indigenous geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) carrying an ... read more 
London (AFP) Oct 26, 2009Veteran Gurkha soldiers from Nepal are launching another court battle against the British government Tuesday -- this time over pension rights. The British Gurkha Welfare Society is taking action at London's High Court because it says around 24,000 veterans and dependants who served in the British army before 1997 receive only a third of the normal payments. In May, all Gurkha veterans ... more
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Bangalore, India (AFP) Oct 27, 2009The foreign ministers of India, China and Russia stressed on Tuesday the increasing influence of their countries on the world stage and said they had all weathered the economic crisis well. Ministers from the three countries said that during talks in the Indian technology hub of Bangalore they had found common ground over issues ranging from climate change to trade, security and development. ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2009China said Tuesday that two Tibetans had been executed for their role in deadly ethnic unrest that rocked the Himalayan region last year, the first known use of capital punishment over the violence. The confirmation by foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu came after several overseas activist groups had reported that up to four Tibetans were shot dead by Chinese firing squads over the ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 27, 2009China's top Communist Party leader in Tibet has said the fight against separatism remains "very serious" more than a year after deadly unrest rocked the Himalayan region, state media reported Tuesday. In a speech in the regional capital Lhasa, Zhang Qingli urged all levels of government, as well as the military, to step up efforts to ensure public order, the Tibet Daily reported. "Since ... more |
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Hua Hin, Thailand (AFP) Oct 24, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao agreed with his Indian counterpart Saturday to work towards narrowing differences on long-simmering border issues between the two nations, state media reported. Wen reached the agreement with Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of a regional summit in Thailand grouping the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other countries, the official Xinhua ... more
Dharamshala, India (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Chinese soldiers executed three Tibetans for their role in unrest that shook the region last year, an exiles' organisation said on Thursday citing unnamed sources. The Gu Chu Sum group of former Tibetan political prisoners said the two men and one woman were shot on Wednesday in the capital Lhasa, having been detained after riots broke out in Tibet in March 2008. Fierce anti-China ... more  
Nairobi (AFP) Oct 22, 2009Pirates captured a Panamanian-flagged ship with 26 crew off the East Africa coast on Thursday and fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at an Italian ship, which escaped. The bulk carrier Al Khaliq was hijacked when pirates boarded and overpowered the mostly Indian crew in waters between Somalia and the Seychelles, the joint European Union-NATO mission to protect shipping in ... more |
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