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China says won't relax grip on TibetBeijing (AFP) Feb 1, 2010 China said Monday it made no concessions on Tibetan sovereignty during talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama over the future of the region - the first such negotiations in more than a year. "(China's) national interests are inviolable and there is no room for discussion on the issues of national and territorial sovereignty," said a government statement on the talks. It marked China's first confirmation that the secretive talks had concluded, and came as the Tibetan spiritual leader's envoys retur ... read more |
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Manila (AFP) Jan 28, 2010The Philippines, the world's largest rice importer, said Thursday it feared global food prices would spike this year as India suffers its worst drought in nearly four decades. "There's been a big drought in India which affected half of her territory and which may affect global food prices," Economic Planning Undersecretary Dennis Arroyo told reporters. Arroyo listed the Indian dry spell ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 28, 2010Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would finalise in a couple of months the payloads from the international community to be carried on Chandrayaan-II moon mission, the space agency's chairman K Radhakrishnan has said. "Yes, we have and in a couple of months we would finalise it. There are several of them (proposals received from different countries)," he told reporters here. The Ch ... more  
Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 27, 2010India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States, a top official said Wednesday. The government had already approved plans for a human space flight project by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and last year gave the go-ahead for funding of around 2.8 billion dollars. ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan ... more |
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India's 'miracle' biofuel crop: too good to be true?New Delhi (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 To its fans, jatropha is a miracle crop, an eco-friendly answer to India's growing energy needs, but some experts are starting to question whether the wonder-shrub is too good to be true. The seeds of the wild plant, which grows abundantly across India, produce non-edible oil that can be blended with diesel, to make the biofuel that is part of government efforts to cut carbon emissions and combat climate change. That, combined with the shrub's much vaunted ability to flourish on poorly irrigated ... read more |
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