|
 
India's Tata launches low-cost water filter for rural poorMumbai (AFP) Dec 7, 2009 India's giant Tata Group on Monday unveiled a new low-cost water purifier, hoping to do for health what it did for motoring and provide affordable, safe drinking water for millions and cut disease. The Tata Swach -- named after the Hindi for "clean" -- is designed to be used in poor, rural households that have no electricity or running water, using ash from rice milling to filter out ... read more |
. |
 |
|
Free Space, Earth, Energy And Military Newsletters - Delivered Daily |
| .. |
 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 07, 2009India's first science satellite Astrosat is all set to be launched next year, former chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Madhavan Nair said. One more satellite 'Aditya' to study Sun's coronal mass ejection (CME) would be launched in two years while the science mission to planet Mars by 2013, Nair said, addressing a galaxy of scientists from India and abroad and the ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 6, 2009Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh flew to Russia on Sunday on a visit to strengthen ties between the two long-time allies and finalise a deal to expand cooperation on nuclear energy. Singh's two-day trip, his sixth to Russia as prime minister since 2004, was also designed to firm up defence deals that have been hit by delays in delivery, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said. ... more  
Kathmandu (AFP) Dec 6, 2009More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent. Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 ... more |
.. |
 Mauritius urges UK to freeze Chagos marine park project   GM and China's SAIC to launch India auto venture   Premature US exit could enflame Afghanistan and Pakistan |
.. |
|
|
Free Space, Earth, Energy And Military Newsletters - Delivered Daily |
| .. |
Mumbai (AFP) Dec 3, 2009One person died and many were injured in a violent protest Thursday against cuts in water supplies in India's financial capital following the worst monsoon rains since 1972, a report said. A crowd of about 3,000 people demonstrated outside municipal headquarters in Mumbai demanding an easing of the 30-percent cut in supplies for many parts of the city of 18 million people, the Press Trust of ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 3, 2009India pledged on Thursday to cut its carbon footprint in the next decade by reducing the intensity of its emissions, in a long-awaited move ahead of the Copenhagen climate talks. Addressing parliament, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said India needed to show leadership to its people and the world and even invoked the country's environment-minded independence leader Mahatma Gandhi to bols ... more  
Bhopal, India (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 As activists and survivors demonstrated for justice on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India, gas disaster, experts say the toxic effects continue to take a toll. On Dec. 3, 1984, a cloud of toxic gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide factory, killing 10,000 people within three days. Research by the Indian Council for Medical Research shows that 25,000 people have died fr ... more |
.. |
 Climate fears over India's middle class-driven car boom  Mahindra, BAE ink vehicles deal  World Bank pledges to help clean India's holy Ganges |
.. |
|
|
Free Space, Earth, Energy And Military Newsletters - Delivered Daily |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2010 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
| Previous Issues | Dec 07 | Dec 06 | Dec 03 | Dec 02 | Dec 01 |
