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Wildlife experts in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fitted black bears with satellite-tracking collars to study their behaviour and help conserve the endangered animals, officials said Wednesday. "This is the first time in India that Himalayan black bears have been fitted with a GPS collar," wildlife warden Rashid Naqash told AFP, adding that there just 300 of the animals in the region. ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2009India on Wednesday tightened air quality rules and said it will enforce a single standard for industrial and residential pollution. The Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards rule would lead to the use of "clean fuel" to lower emissions, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said. The announcement came less than a month before the December 7-18 climate change summit in ... more
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New Delhi (UPI) Nov 17, 2009 India is negotiating the purchase of Boeing's C-17 Globemaster Heavy-Lift aircraft in a deal with the United States that is estimated at about $1.7 billion. India already possesses a fleet of 40 Russian-made Ilyushin-76 Garjaj transporters. But experts and several Indian defense officials say that the inclusion of an entirely new bird to its transport fleet would boost the count ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2009The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), have signed a landmark agreement. This agreement starts a Sri Lankan national space capability by providing an SSTL Earth Observation satellite and commencing the definition and design of Sri Lanka's first ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 17, 2009Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday said India would take all necessary steps to safeguard its nuclear facilities as the country tightened security in the wake of fresh fears over possible attacks. "We will do all that is within our power to ensure the safety and security of our nuclear installations, there should be no doubt about that," Singh told reporters after talks with visiting ... more |
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Bhopal, India (AFP) Nov 11, 2009Survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in India's Bhopal city are outraged by plans to throw open the site to visitors 25 years after the tragedy that killed thousands. Announced this week by state authorities, the sealed pesticide plant that leaked deadly methyl isocyanate gas on December 3, 1984 is to be opened to the public for a week next month to coincide with the 25th ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2009The number of foreigners enrolled at US universities shot to a record high in the last academic year fueled by an influx of Chinese students, an educators' group said Monday. India remained the top source of foreign students in the United States but their numbers appeared to be leveling off, with strong new growth coming from China as well as Vietnam and several other emerging economies. ... more 
Mumbai, India (PTI) Nov 16, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has stressed on the need to have a constellation of satellites with multispectral sensors to predict, mitigate and manage disasters. "Exactly how many satellites an effective constellation would need is still open for debate. No single satellite can hope to meet all these needs. Rather, what disaster managers need is a constellation of ... more |
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