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Russia, India May Jointly Make Glonass, GPS Navigation DevicesMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 10, 2010 Russia and India might establish a joint venture to produce navigation equipment for GPS and its Russian equivalent Glonass, the head of the Russian federal satellite navigation operator said on Tuesday. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determine their positions to within a few meters. "We are actively working on a project ... read more |
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Lucknow (AFP) March 4, 2010Sixty-three people, all of them women and children, were crushed to death in a stampede on Thursday at a temple in northern India where a crowd had gathered for a religious festival. The stampede was triggered when an under-construction gate collapsed on the crowd as people surged forward to collect free food and clothes from a local holy man in northern Uttar Pradesh state, police said ... more  
Beijing (AFP) March 4, 2010China on Thursday launched a new warning to foreign countries not to interfere in its affairs in Tibet and Taiwan - two issues that have badly strained ties with the United States. Washington irked Beijing in January when it approved the sale of a 6.4-billion-dollar package of arms to Taiwan, and then again a month later when US President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House. ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) March 2, 2010Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan plan to attend an international summit on nuclear security to be hosted by US President Barack Obama next month, officials said Tuesday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to make the trip to Washington for the April 12-13 summit, his office said. In Pakistan, foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP: "Someone will go to the conferenc ... more |
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NASA radar finds ice on moon's north poleWashington (AFP) March 1, 2010 A US radar that launched into space aboard an Indian spacecraft has detected craters filled with ice on the moon's north pole, NASA scientists said Monday. The US space agency's Mini-SAR radar found more than 40 small craters ranging in size from one to nine miles (1.6 to 15 kilometers), each full of water ice. "Although the total amount of ice depends on its thickness in each crater, it's estimated there could be at least 600 million metric tons of water ice," NASA said in a statement. The ... read more |
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