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Rocket Scientist Heads ISRO Liquid Propulsion Systems CentreBangalore, India (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 Noted rocket scientist S. Ramakrishnan is the new director of the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) liquid propulsion systems centre at Thiruvananthapuram. The space agency Wednesday said Ramakrishnan, as director of projects at its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre at Thiruvananthapuram earlier, had played a key role in the development of polar satellite launch vehicle (PSLV) and its liquid propulsion stages. 'Under Ramakrishnan's leadership as project director, the PSLV continuation p ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) May 21, 2010The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, held his first Internet chat with Chinese web users Friday, in a wide-ranging dialogue touching on politics and his eventual successor. The webcast was seen on the micro-blogging website Twitter and on Internet sites inside China despite Beijing's long-standing efforts to police the web and silence the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner on the Chin ... more  
Hyderabad (AFP) May 21, 2010Cyclone Laila weakened Friday after battering India's southeastern coast with several days of torrential rain and high winds that claimed 26 lives, officials said. The storm, which formed over the Bay of Bengal, drenched the southern state of Tamil Nadu before making landfall further north Thursday in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, where it uprooted trees, electricity poles and destroyed commu ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) May 22, 2010Bangladesh has signed a cooperation deal with Russia which will led to two nuclear power plants being built in the energy-starved South Asian nation, an official said Saturday. Under the deal, signed in Moscow on Friday, Russia will help construct the two 1,000-megawatt nuclear plants in the north of the country, Bangladesh's nuclear energy commission chief Mosharraf Hossain told AFP. "I ... more |
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Indiana And Illinois Climate Trending Toward Fewer DroughtsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) May 21, 2010 Indiana and Illinois may experience severe droughts in the future, but they'll be few and far between, according to a Purdue University study. Keith Cherkauer, an assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, and Vimal Mishra, Cherkauer's graduate student, used historical data from the National Climate Data Center to model the likelihood of future droughts in the two states. Historic data observed showed that those trends are expected to produce conditions in which droughts would ... read more |
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