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 Mecca, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Nov 21, 2009 
Swine flu has killed four pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj, health authorities said on Saturday only a few days before the massive Muslim gathering reaches its peak. An Indian man, a Moroccan woman and a Sudanese man -- all aged 75 -- died from A(H1N1), as had a 17-year-old girl from Nigeria, Saudi health ministry spokesman Khaled al-Marghlani said. "They all had pre-existing ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 20, 2009India, a stronghold of vegetarianism where the cow is a sacred animal for the majority Hindu population, has urged the rest of the world to give up eating beef to help reduce global warming. "The single most important cause of (carbon) emissions is eating beef," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said during a speech on Thursday, his office told AFP. "My formula is stop eating beef. This ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2009US space agency NASA has signed an agreement with ISRO to use data from Indian satellite Oceansat-2, for various American agencies for research activities, including weather forecasting. Launched on September 23, 2009 using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from Sriharikota, Oceansat-2; is designed to provide service continuity for operational users of the Ocean Colour Monitor (OCM) instr ... 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  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 17, 2009After confirming the presence of water on the lunar surface, India's Chandrayaan-1 mission has, for the first time, discovered mini-magnetosphere that would throw light on the "inventory" of Hydrogen on the moon, a top space scientist said on Friday. SARA (Sub-keV Atom Reflecting Analyser), an instrument on board the country's first lunar orbiter, has made the discovery, Dr Anil Bhardwaj, ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Nov 7, 2009US auto giant General Motors is in advanced talks with its Chinese partners on a proposal to bring their vehicles to India, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday. GM began talks with its partners Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Wuling eight months ago to explore possibilities of bringing their light commercial vehicles to India. "Now we know what can work in India and ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Nov 5, 2009 The Indian army will take at least 124 of the controversial Indian-made Arjun tanks by April, according to media reports. But the army still doubts its performance as the country's proposed main battle tank to replace hundreds of Russian-made T-90 tanks. W. Selvamurthy, head of research and development at the Defense Research and Development Organization, made the announcement, s ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 5, 2009Twin thorns in the side of India-China relations will get a simultaneous tweak this weekend when the Dalai Lama visits a Buddhist region at the heart of a border row between the Asian giants. Sandwiched between Myanmar, the kingdom of Bhutan and Tibet, the lush, forested state of Arunachal Pradesh in the Himalayan foothills is governed by India but claimed by China. Beijing tends to view ... more |
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