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Millions brace for holy Ganges festivalHaridwar, India (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 Millions of Hindu pilgrims readied Thursday for a ritual, pre-dawn bath in the waters of the holy Ganges river in northern India as the world's largest religious gathering gets underway. They had come from all over India: In families and couples, wealthy and poor, businessmen and farmhands, and itinerant 'sadhus' or holy men draped in saffron-coloured robes. For Hindu devotees, the three ... read more |
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London (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Former Gurkha soldiers from Nepal lost a test case against Britain's Ministry of Defence over pension rights at the High Court in London on Monday. The ruling came after the British government last year granted Gurkha veterans the right to settle in Britain following a high-profile campaign led by actress Joanna Lumley. The legal action was launched by the British Gurkha Welfare Society, ... more  
Raipur, India (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Indian police on Monday arrested three Chinese employees over the collapse of an industrial chimney that killed 40 workers. The men were employees of China's Shandong Electric Power Construction, which was contracted to build the 178-metre (584-feet) power station chimney in central Chhattisgarh state, police said. The two engineers and a project manager have been charged with culpable h ... more  
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Jan 11, 2010The third launch pad planned at ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, is going to be something special. While it will meet the space agency's needs for the 2015 Human Space Flight Mission, the launch pad is also being designed to accommodate the proposed Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), India's dream space shuttle which is on the designing board, ISRO officials said. ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Jan 8, 2010A UN special envoy said Friday he would visit India to examine problems linked to the management and disposal of hazardous products and wastes. Okechukwu Ibeanu said he would focus on how shipbreaking and the e-waste industry, which handles discarded electronic goods such as television sets, cellphones and computers, affected those who lived close to, or worked in the industries. The bus ... more  
Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Jan 08, 2010The indigenously built highly sophisticated cryogenic engine is undergoing a final review by ISRO before it is cleared for use in the test launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-D3 later this year. "We are conducting a final thorough review of the cryogenic engine that will power the GSLV," Indian Space Research Organisation Chairman K Radhakrishnan told PTI on the sidelines ... more 
London, UK (PTI) Jan 08, 2010Reports indicate that the Indian media has branded its astronauts as "vyomanauts", a word derived from the Sanskrit language. According to a report in New Scientist, the tongue-twisting term comes from the Sanskrit for sky or space - that is - 'vyoma'. The closest Sanskrit word to astronaut would have been vyomagami, for something that passes in the sky. The other word for an ... more |
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