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ISRO Launches Rockets To Study EclipseNew Delhi, India (PTI) Jan 18, 2010 The millennium's longest solar eclipse gave a unique chance to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists and astronomy lovers to study the event on Friday, with the space agency launching rockets and celestial gazers aiming telescopes at the sky to watch the moon's shadow covering the sun. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, launched a series of Rohini Sound ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 17, 2010Defense Secretary Robert Gates heads to India this week to promote a blossoming "strategic partnership" with a country that has strongly endorsed the US-led mission in Afghanistan. Defense officials said Gates' two-day visit is part of an effort to cultivate a broad relationship with India, a country Washington recognizes as an increasingly powerful player on the international stage. ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 19, 2010US Defence Secretary Robert Gates began a visit to India on Tuesday and praised the country for showing "restraint" since the Mumbai attacks, saying it had kept tensions with Pakistan under control. Speaking to reporters before landing in New Delhi, Gates expressed admiration for how Indian leaders had reacted to the 2008 attacks that left 166 dead. "The bombing in Mumbai was a really ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Jan 19, 2010India's environment minister slammed the UN's top climate body in comments published Tuesday, claiming its doomsday warning about Himalayan glaciers was not based on "scientific evidence." The controversy focuses on a reference in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) landmark 2007 report that said the chances of Himalayan glaciers "disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high." "The IPCC claim that glaciers will vanish by 2035 was not based on an iota of scientific evidence," minister Jairam Ramesh told the Hindustan Times. ... more |
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London UK (PTI) Jan 18, 2010A warning that most of the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035 owing to climate change is likely to be retracted after the United Nations body that issued it admitted to a series of scientific blunders. Two years ago, the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) headed by India's Rajendra Pachauri, issued a benchmark report that claimed to have incorporated the latest and most detailed research into the impact of global warming. A central claim was that world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jan 18, 2009 Tibet's new governor -- an ethnic Tibetan -- has vowed to "oppose all attempts at succession" and put national unity as a top priority. Padma Choling, 58 and former vice chairman of the Tibetan regional government since 2003, was elected unanimously by its members. Choling spent 17 years in the Chinese army before entering politics in 1986. He replaces Qiangba Puncog, 63, who was ... more  
Jodhpur, India (AFP) Jan 18, 2010A London-based environmentalist driving a biofuel-powered bus around the world was freed on bail by a judge in India on Monday after being arrested for illegally using a satellite telephone. Andy Pag's lawyer Prateek Kasliwal said the court in the western Indian city of Ajmer released him on condition he put up a personal guarantee of 40,000 rupees (900 dollars). "Justice P.K. Aggarwal r ... more |
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