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Doppler Radars Help Increase Monsoon Rainfall Prediction AccuracyWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Oct 07, 2010 Doppler weather radar will significantly improve forecasting models used to track monsoon systems influencing the monsoon in and around India, according to a research collaboration including Purdue University, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Dev Niyogi, a Purdue associate professor of agronomy and earth and atmospheric sciences, said modeling of a monsoon depression track can have a margin of error of about 200 kilometers for landfall, whi ... read more |
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US hopes to resolve nuclear liabilities with India
New York (AFP) Sept 27, 2010The United States said Monday that it hoped to reach a solution with India on a law regulating its nuclear energy market after business leaders charged that it would deter investment. The issue arose during talks in New York between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna, which were meant to lay the groundwork for President Barack Obama's visit to New ... more ISRO To Replace Two Ageing Satellites In December
Chennai, India (PTI) Sep 27, 2010The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to replace two of its ageing satellites with new ones by December, an official said Thursday. The agency is planning to send in space two rockets for the purpose. First to fly towards the heavens will be ISRO's heavy rocket - the geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV) - sometime during the second week of December carrying a commun ... more Plague breaks out in China's Tibet
Beijing (AFP) Sept 26, 2010China issued a health alert in its southwestern region of Tibet Sunday after five people were diagnosed with the plague, an often fatal infectious disease. One of the five has already died from a severe lung infection attributed to the pneumonic plague, while one other patient was in a critical condition, the Tibet health department said in a statement on its website. The outbreak was fi ... more |
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Tourists shot in Delhi bus attackNew Delhi (UPI) Sep 20, 2010 Police have launched a manhunt after two Taiwanese tourists were shot by attackers on a motorcycle in the Indian capital. The injured were taken to Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Hospital where authorities said one on the injured had been hit in the stomach. The shooting happened near the Jama Masjid mosque, a popular tourist destination within the old walls of Old Delhi. At a news conference, Deputy Commissioner of Police Jaspal Singh gave few details of the incident, saying only that the ... read more |
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