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Roads clogged as China quake response ramps upJiegu, China (AFP) April 19, 2010 Relief supplies poured into China's quake zone in a remote Tibetan region Monday as the disaster response ramped up, but authorities warned icy weather could bring more misery in days ahead. An AFP journalist saw roads leading into the earthquake-shattered town of Jiegu in northwestern China clogged with ambulances and trucks carrying food, tents and quilts for victims of a disaster that killed at least 1,706 people. As the long queue of vehicles inched into Jiegu, the main population centre in ... read more |
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New Delhi (PTI) Apr 15, 2010India will send two astronauts to space by 2017 in its own spacecraft and the Rs 12,400 project is likely to be approved before the Independence Day, ISRO chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan has said. With this achievement, India would join the select club of America, Russia and China which have such human space flight capabilities. The ISRO has submitted the Rs 12,400 crore project for indi ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 15, 2010NASA has announced the victors in the 17th annual Great Moonbuggy Race: The team representing the International Space Education Institute of Leipzig, Germany, won the high school division; and racers from the University of Puerto Rico in Humacao took first place in the college division. The teams bested more than 70 teams from 18 states, Puerto Rico, Canada, Germany, India and Romania. Mor ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) April 12, 2010Environmental campaigners branded a move Monday by Bangladesh to ease strict controls on its vital shipbreaking industry as "suicidal", saying it would expose tens of thousands to toxic waste. The government amended a law late Sunday to permit the industry, the world's largest, to bring in ships using their own declarations that the vessels are free from toxic materials, the shipping departm ... more |
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India Says Chinese Anti Satellite Program A Global ThreatBangalore (PTI) Apr 12, 2010 India has slammed China's anti-Satellite (ASAT) programme, terming it a threat to global space assets. In 2007, Beijing successfully tested an anti-satellite (ASAT) vehicle, destroying an inactive weather satellite. Asked if China's ASAT programme is a threat to Indian satellites, Secretary in the Department of Space, K Radhakrishnan said: "... the threat is not only for us, but for the entire world because it (China's 2007 test) has created space debris". Noting that the Chinese test has re ... read more |
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