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China, India PMs agree to double trade by 2015New Delhi (AFP) Dec 15, 2010 China and India's premiers agreed Thursday to double bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars by 2015, during talks that otherwise showed no apparent progress on a series of key disputes. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh also agreed in a joint communique to push Indian exports to China in an effort to bridge a trade surplus of around 20 billion dollars a year in China's favour. The talks came on the second day of Wen's visit - his first to India in five years -- ... read more |
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  India to boost its Akash missile arsenal Bharat Electronics expects to win around $3.3 billion worth of contracts for the surface-to-air Akash missile system in the next several months, a company official said. ... more | .. |
  ISRO To Launch New Satellite On December 20 Indian Space Research Organisation has decided to launch its new communication satellite GSAT-5 Prime from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at around 4 pm on December 20. Sources ... more | .. |
  In Cancun climate talks, India enjoys place in sun India has emerged as a new global power on climate change, with major nations voicing praise - and surprise - at New Delhi's agile diplomacy that helped produce a deal in Cancun, Mexico. ... more | .. |
 India's test of nuclear-capable missile fails India's maiden test of an upgraded version of its nuclear-capable, medium-range Agni-II ballistic missile ended in failure Friday, when the missile dropped into the Bay of Bengal. ... more |
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  Protestors urge 'hands off medicine' at EU-India summit Protestors wearing white medical coats staged a noisy protest outside an India-EU summit Friday to demand continued access to cheap medicine for hundreds of thousands of HIV sufferers in poor countries. ... more | .. |
  Somalia's pirates take to the high seas Somali pirates who have plagued the shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden for the last few years have been steadily moving eastward to evade international naval forces protecting maritime traffic. ... more | .. |
  Phones are a feminist issue in Bangladesh Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive. ... more | .. |
  Building Begins On Indian Navy's First P-8I Aircraft The Boeing P-8I team has begun fabricating the first part for the Indian navy's first long-range maritime reconnaissance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft on Dec. 6 in Wichita. The P-8I, based on ... more |
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 Guarded optimism as climate talks enter night The world's climate negotiators worked into early Friday morning amid guarded hopes of making progress, as a new willingness by India to accept binding action brightened the mood. ... more | .. |
India offers olive branch at UN climate talks India said Thursday for the first time it would consider a binding treaty on fighting climate change, offering an olive branch at UN-led negotiations which looked set to go into overtime. ... more | .. |
  Experts link 'stress' to Indian big cats getting smaller India's endangered Bengal tiger is dwindling not only in numbers, but also in stature, according to a recent survey that suggests the famed big cats are getting physically smaller. ... more | .. |
  High hopes and hard realities for India's 35-dollar computer The Indian government won headlines around the world when it unveiled a prototype 35-dollar tablet computer in July, but questions are now growing over whether the project is just a pipe dream. ... more |
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 India aims for Internet revolution to reach rural heartland India said Thursday it aims to sharply expand its national broadband network as it seeks a "revolution" to bring high-speed Internet to the country's rural heartland. ... more | .. |
 Japan's Toyota Tsusho to procure rare earths in India Japanese trading house Toyota Tsusho will build a plant for processing rare earth minerals in India, the company said, as Japan scrambles to diversify supply sources beyond dominant producer China. ... more | .. |
  Sri Lanka to skip Nobel awards amid China boycott calls Sri Lanka, a close ally of China, said Thursday it would not send a representative to the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo for jailed Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo. ... more | .. |
India to attend Nobel ceremony: report India will attend Friday's Nobel peace prize ceremony in Oslo for jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, the country's national news agency said on Tuesday. ... more |
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Chase for India's rural rupee inspires tech innovations India's hunger for new technology is as sharp in its countless small villages as in its shiny office towers or shopping malls - and businesses are waking up to an area of massive potential growth. ... more | .. |
 ISRO Hands Two Contracts To Arianespace Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has given an estimated Rs500 crore order to Arianespace and renewed the five-year contract with EADS Astrium for joint marketing of satellites, it was annou ... more | .. |
  Australia told US to ready to use force in China: Wikileaks Former leader Kevin Rudd praised Australia's "robust" ties with China Monday, after a leaked cable showed him urging the US to be ready to use force against the rising power "if everything goes wrong". ... more | .. |
  ISRO Renews Deal With EADS Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has renewed a five-year contract with EADS Astrium, Europe's leading satellite system specialist, for joint marketing of satellites. Announcing this d ... more |
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  China grassland fire extinguished after 22 killed Firefighters have extinguished a grassland blaze in a remote mountainous region in southwest China that killed at least 22 people and injured another four, state media said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Climate change may mean new crop strategy Farmers in the U.S. Midwest could get permanent Southern-style weather if future climate change projections are accurate, researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Sarkozy and Indian PM Singh set to sign nuclear reactor deal French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday in New Delhi, with a new deal on nuclear power set to be the centrepiece of the meeting. ... more | .. |
 Land disputes hitting Indian infrastructure schemes Protests against a proposed Indian nuclear power plant this weekend highlight a growing problem facing developers, experts say, as the country tries to upgrade or build much-needed infrastructure. ... more |
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