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Ancient Raindrops Reveal A Wave of Mountains Sent South By Sinking Farallon PlateStanford CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2010 50 million years ago, mountains began popping up in southern British Columbia. over the next 22 million years, a wave of mountain building swept (geologically speaking) down western North America as far south as Mexico and as far east as Nebraska, according to Stanford geochemists. Their findings help put to rest the idea that the mountains mostly developed from a vast, Tibet-like plateau that rose up across most of the western U.S. roughly simultaneously and then subsequently collapsed and eroded ... read more |
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  India says Pakistan must drop 'terror' for friendly ties India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday that friendly ties with Pakistan can only come when Islamabad ensures its soil is not used for "terrorist" activities against Indian targets. ... more | .. |
  ISRO Puts Off GSLV Launch The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s next Geosynchronous Satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-FO6) flight from the Satish Dhawan spaceport at Sriharikota, 100 km north of here, scheduled for Mo ... more | .. |
ISRO Set To Launch Heaviest Satellite For Telecom And TV Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation were set to launch their heaviest satellite from near here on Monday to retire an old one sent up in 1999 and ensure continuity of telecom, TV an ... more | .. |
  Russia And India Fix T-50 Fighter Design Contract Russia and India have agreed the estimated cost of a design contract for their joint fifth-generation fighter project at $295 million, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Chairman Ashok Nayak said i ... more |
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  Myanmar officials talked of 'going nuclear': US cable Myanmar's military regime suggested six years ago it might "go nuclear" to gain the attention of the United States, according to a senior Indian diplomat quoted in a leaked US cable. ... more | .. |
  NAVTEQ Expands Global R And D Capabilities NAVTEQ has announced the company's expansion of designated R and D Global Development Centers (GDC) to include operations in Mumbai, India. The center will employ 150 R and D team members and ... more | .. |
  Chinese PM seeks to shore up 'fragile' ties with India Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in India at the head of a huge business delegation Wednesday to try and shore up a relationship undermined by persistent trade and territorial disputes. ... more | .. |
 Chinese and Indian PMs hold talks in Delhi China and India's premiers held talks Thursday expected to touch on a series of sensitive issues, including a long-running border row, that have dogged their countries' often troubled ties. ... more |
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  'Mile-a-minute' weed threatens Nepal's jungles The lush jungles of the Chitwan national park in southern Nepal are among the last remaining refuges of the endangered royal Bengal tiger and the rare one-horned rhino. ... more | .. |
  China, India PMs agree to double trade by 2015 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. ... more | .. |
China and India, partners not rivals: Chinese PM The future of China and India lies in partnership not rivalry, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday, promising to redress a yawning trade imbalance between the fast-growing Asian giants. ... more | .. |
  India's solar mission moving ahead India's Solar Mission, aimed at generating 20,000 megawatts of solar power in the country over the next decade, has generated a positive response since it was launched in January, a government agency said. ... 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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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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