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India To Relaunch GLSV Within One YearKolkata, India (PTI) Jun 30, 2010 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to relaunch the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) with a home-grown cryogenic engine in a year's time after the failure in April this year. "We have come across a few scenarios after detailed analysis of the failure. Now the immediate task is to test it on the ground and we look forward to relaunch it next year," ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan told reporters on the sidelines of the 117 birth anniversary celebrations of Professor PC M ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 22, 2010The first airline to be based in Tibet will launch its first domestic flights from the remote Himalayan region in the middle of next year, state media reported on Tuesday. Tibet Airlines will operate flights within Tibet and link its capital Lhasa with other major cities across the China, the China Daily said. The carrier is considering buying Boeing 737-700 and Airbus 319 aircraft to se ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) June 21, 2010India is to push the US to extradite the American former boss of the company blamed for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, as part of a new government response to the accident, a minister said Monday. Under fire for the slow pace of justice and inadequate clean-up of the site of the disaster, the world's worst industrial accident, the government created a panel of senior ministers to draw up reco ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) June 20, 2010Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. Over the past decade, more than 20 percent of deaths recorded in a study that monitored nearly 12,000 people in the Araihazar district of the capital Dhaka appear to have been caused by ar ... more |
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India seizes third shipment of tiger parts on way to ChinaGuwahati, India (AFP) June 20, 2010 Indian customs officers Sunday seized the third shipment of tiger bones and other animal parts, worth 230,000 dollars and destined for use in traditional medicine in China. A customs official said the officers found tiger bones, skulls, and 125 kilogrammes of scales from pangolins, rare scaly mammals that are distant relatives of the anteater and a protected species in India. "The animal products were estimated at about 10.66 million rupees if sold on the international black market," customs sup ... read more |
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