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India calls for global energy hunt as demand set to soarNew Delhi (AFP) Nov 1, 2010 Premier Manmohan Singh told India's energy firms on Monday to scour the globe for fuel supplies as he warned the country's demand for fossil fuels was set to soar 40 percent over the next decade. The country of more than 1.1 billion people already imports nearly 80 percent of its crude oil to fuel an economy that is expected to grow 8.5 percent this year and at least nine percent next year. Demand for hydrocarbons - petroleum, coal, natural gas - "over the next 10 years will increase by over 4 ... read more |
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  RISAT-1 Launch In 2011 Will Boost Weather Surveillance India's earth observation capabilities are set to get a boost with the launch of indigenously-developed RISAT-1 early next year. The satellite will be launched in the first half of the next ye ... more | .. |
  US vows to get China ties right The United States vowed Thursday to get its rocky relations with China "right" despite flaring rows, and announced that President Barack Obama would meet President Hu Jintao next month in Seoul. ... more | .. |
 China PM to visit India, says big powers can grow together Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Friday he would visit India later this year, stressing there was "enough space in the world" for both the giant nations to prosper despite a backdrop of frosty ties. ... more | .. |
  World Bank calls for ecosystems to be valued The World Bank on Thursday called for a radical shift in countries' economic models to include the values of forests, mangroves, coral reefs and other ecosystems. ... more | .. |
  Hanging On For Dear Life Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami that killed more than 230,000 coastal residents in Indonesia, India, Thailand and Sri La ... more |
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Upington, South Africa (AFP) Oct 28, 2010South Africa wooed investors Thursday for what could become the world's largest solar project, built on the edge of the Kalahari Desert to provide an eighth of the country's electricity. More than 400 investors and solar industry insiders from as far away as India, South Korea, Spain and the United States descended on the tiny town of Upington in South Africa's arid Northern Cape province fo ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 31, 2010India and China would look for "practical, pragmatic" measures to end border disputes which took the two countries to war in 1962, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. Singh, who met his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Friday at a regional summit in Hanoi, also said the two Asian giants must ensure "peace and tranquillity" on their militarised border. "We reaffirmed the two count ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2010It has been almost six months since 16-year-old Abby Sunderland's 40-foot vessel, Wild Eyes, was damaged in a storm, leaving her stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean. But now, she finally got a chance to meet the people who developed the technology used to save her life. Abby visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Oct. 25 to meet Search and Rescue Manager Da ... more |
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Indian arms race offers prizes for presidential visitsNew Delhi (AFP) Oct 26, 2010 Arms-hungry India is expected to hand out a raft of military deals worth billions of dollars during an upcoming rush of presidential visits from the United States, France and Russia. The biggest-ticket item is the scheduled signing of an estimated 30 billion-dollar stealth fighter co-production agreement when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visits in late December. Medvedev's trip will follow those of President Barack Obama and President Nicolas Sarkozy, both of whom will be pushing existing U ... read more |
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