Indo Daily
March 27, 2017
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Lowest bidders threaten Nepal's quake-hit heritage



Kathmandu (AFP) March 24, 2017
Caretaker Deepak Shrestha padlocked shut the quake-ravaged remains of the Trailokya Mohan Narayan temple in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to keep out the contractors who are meant to be rebuilding it. The 17th century monument's three-tiered pagoda completely collapsed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit the Himalayan nation in April 2015, leaving the main statue standing exposed on a high plinth. Shrestha, whose family has looked after the Hindu temple for generations, is now on a mission to pro ... read more

WATER WORLD
Study of non-rainfall water in Namib Desert reveals unexpected origins
Indianapolis IN (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
In a study conducted in one of the world's oldest and most biologically diverse deserts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis scientists explore the origins of water other than rainfall ... more
WATER WORLD
India grants sacred rivers status of 'legal persons'
Dehradun, India (AFP) March 21, 2017
Two of India's holiest but most polluted rivers have been recognised as a "legal person" in a landmark court ruling that could see the sacred waterways restored to health. ... more
TECH SPACE
Pulverizing electronic waste is green, clean - and cold
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
Researchers at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science have an idea to simplify electronic waste recycling: Crush it into nanodust. Specifically, they want to make the particles so small ... more
THE PITS
Adani to begin work on Australia mine by August: report
Mumbai (AFP) March 19, 2017
India's Adani Enterprises says work on a giant coal mine near Australia's Great Barrier Reef will begin in August despite mounting opposition to the long-delayed project, local media reported Sunday. ... more
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MARSDAILY
Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017
As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics - Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one ... more
MOON DAILY
Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India
Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017
Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on Wednesday. "Teams Callisto, Ears a ... more
MISSILE NEWS
India test fires BrahMos Extended Range missile
Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017
Indian defense researchers completed a test launch with the BrahMos Extended Range Missile in a move industry partners praised as a milestone for the program. ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Nuera Solar Announces Partnership with The Solar Village Project
Barrington RI (SPX) Mar 15, 2017
Nuera Solar has announced a partnership with the Solar Village Project, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that delivers light and power to communities in Africa, India, and Polynesia. The p ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Nepal police demolish camp for earthquake displaced
Kathmandu (AFP) March 14, 2017
Nepal police Tuesday demolished the largest remaining settlement of people displaced by a powerful earthquake that struck nearly two years ago, a move that will leave hundreds homeless. ... more
MOON DAILY
Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017
Unlocking humanity's future as an interplanetary species is no simple feat. But students at Arizona State University and the Central University of Tamil Nadu in India are up for the challenge. The i ... more


BrahMos Aerospace to Be Indian DRDO's Commercial Wing Abroad

MOON DAILY
NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiters
Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it has located its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft after disappearing for years. ... more
SPACEMART
ISRO Makes More Space for Private Sector Participation in Satellite Making
New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 07, 2017
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is thinking of ways to enhance involvement of the private sector in its future satellite launches and include local firms in making integrated systems a ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Chemists create molecular 'leaf' that collects and stores solar power without solar panels
Bloomington IN (SPX) Mar 09, 2017
An international team of scientists led by Liang-shi Li at Indiana University has achieved a new milestone in the quest to recycle carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere into carbon-neutral fuels ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Space squadron supports record-breaking satellites launch
Eglin AFB FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2017
The 20th Space Control Squadron's Charlie Crew successfully tracked India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Feb. 15. Loaded with 104 satellites, the Indian PSLV set the record for the most spacecraft ... more

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Lockheed transferring production site for F-16s
Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017
Lockheed Martin's production in Texas of F-16 Fighting Falcons is to be moved to a facility in South Carolina beginning at the end of the year, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. "As part of our effort to make room for the F-35 production here in Fort Worth, the F-16 production line must be relocated," Ken Ross, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, told the For ... more
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2017
Raytheon tapped for Super Hornet, Growler radar upgrades
Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017
French government approves Rafale F4 upgrades
Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017
RAF getting new G-force centrifuge facility
Germany pushing e-mobility options
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017
German energy company E.ON said Monday it was working within a government program to advance charging points for electric-powered mobility options. The company's subsidiaries submitted grant applications for more than 700 charging stations on behalf of the municipalities in which they operate. "Using various models, E.ON's regional companies are offering charging solutions for al ... more
London (AFP) March 22, 2017
China's Geely opens UK plant for electric London taxis
Jerusalem (AFP) March 17, 2017
Intel deal may fuel Israel's rise as builder of car brains
New York (AFP) March 16, 2017
More gas guzzlers due to Trump? Not necessarily


Energy demand metrics indicate strong U.S. economy
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2017
Metrics measuring consumer demand for fuels and related products in the United States were indicative of an improving economy, a trade group said. The American Petroleum Institute reported total petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, gained 0.1 percent to 19.7 million barrels per day, its highest level since 2008. Total motor gasoline deliveries, a measure of consumer demand, was up ... more
New York (AFP) March 26, 2017
New York skyscrapers adapt to climate change
Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017
Emissions flat for three years in a row, IEA says
Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017
CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA
Non-toxic material that generates electricity through hot and cold
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
Thanks to the discovery of a new material by University of Utah engineers, jewelry such as a ring and your body heat could generate enough electricity to power a body sensor, or a cooking pan could charge a cellphone in just a few hours. The team, led by University of Utah materials science and engineering professor Ashutosh Tiwari, has found that a combination of the chemical elements cal ... more
Graz, Austria (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
TU Graz researchers show that enzyme function inhibits battery ageing
New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
New gel-like coating beefs up the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
New feedback system could allow greater control over fusion plasma
Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

Loss-hit Toshiba nosedives on fears about future
Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2017
Toshiba shares plunged Wednesday as fears grow about the future of one of Japan's best-known firms, hit by massive losses and accounting fraud allegations at its US nuclear unit. The Tokyo-listed stock dropped as much as 13.62 percent at one point, with concerns that the embattled company's shares could be delisted from the bourse. Toshiba ended the day at 189.5 yen ($1.65), down 12.22 p ... more
London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017
The EIC and Nuclear AMRC sign MoU
Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017
German energy company RWE evolving for success
Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017
Potential approach to how radioactive elements could be 'fished out' of nuclear waste
Giant magnetic fields in the universe
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
Astronomers from Bonn and Tautenburg in Thuringia (Germany) used the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg to observe several galaxy clusters. At the edges of these large accumulations of dark matter, stellar systems (galaxies), hot gas, and charged particles, they found magnetic fields that are exceptionally ordered over distances of many million light-years. This makes them the most extended mag ... more
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
Finding the 'ghost particles' might be more challenging than what we thought
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
NASA's swift mission maps a star's 'death spiral' into a Black Hole
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
Breaking the supermassive black hole speed limit


Unforeseen impacts of the fair trade movement
Newark DE (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of marketing that merges first world affluence with third world resource. For the average consumer, it implies fairness in labor and wealth, the idea that small producers profit directly from the products and goods they produce. The reality is far more complex, says Lindsay Naylor, assistant ... more
Geneva (AFP) March 21, 2017
China asks WTO to weigh in on EU anti-dumping measures
Tangiers, Morocco (AFP) March 20, 2017
Morocco's Tangiers to host Chinese industrial city
Sydney (AFP) March 24, 2017
China inks $4.6 billion deal for Australia mine project
US air strike in Afghanistan killed senior Qaeda leader: official
Washington (AFP) March 26, 2017
A senior Al-Qaeda commander linked to major attacks in Pakistan including the bombing of a luxury hotel and an assault on a cricket team has been killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan, Washington said Saturday. Qari Yasin, a member of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan group (Pakistani Taliban), was killed on March 19 in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province, the Pentagon said. "The death ... more
Moscow (AFP) March 24, 2017
Russia denies supplying Taliban after NATO claim
Camp Arena, Afghanistan (AFP) March 26, 2017
NATO troops race winter to give Afghan forces a morale boost
Wellington (AFP) March 24, 2017
Deadly New Zealand SAS raid in Afghanistan under scrutiny
Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

Station crew get special delivery from Virginia
Chincoteague Island, VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2016
This week, astronauts are unloading more than 5,000 pounds of cargo and crew supplies from the Cygnus spacecraft to support dozens of science and research investigations. However, this shipment has special significance. This shipment arrived via an Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport's pad 0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Rocket launches to the International Space ... more
Miami (AFP) Oct 23, 2016
Orbital cargo ship arrives at space station
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2016
New Instrument on ISS to Study Ultra-Cold Quantum Gases
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 19, 2016
Two Russians, one American blast off to ISS
Cloaked in rags and dust, Somalis flee looming famine
Baidoa, Somalia (AFP) March 20, 2017
Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia. They loaded their combined belongings - blankets, cooking pots, sleeping mats, jerry cans, clothes - onto a hired donkey cart and walked beside it for 20 kilometres (12 miles) to Baidoa, the closest city. "There is nobody left now," said the 28-year-old. Sh ... more
New York (AFP) March 23, 2017
Tillerson alias emails from his ExxonMobil era prove elusive
New York NY (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
Under the dead sea, warnings of dire drought
Geneva (AFP) March 21, 2017
2017 already marked by climate extremes: UN


China's ZTE pleads guilty to violating US sanctions on Iran, N.Korea
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2017
Chinese telecom giant ZTE has pleaded guilty in a US court to violating US export controls by selling goods to Iran and North Korea over several years. The move is the final step in the case's resolution which the US government announced March 7 in which it slapped $1.2 billion in fines on the company, the largest criminal penalty in US history in an export control case, although there have ... more
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2017
US sees 'activity' at N. Korea nuke sites: US official
Stockholm (AFP) March 21, 2017
Swedish parliament holds first war game in 20 years
Seoul (AFP) March 22, 2017
North Korea fails in new missile test: Seoul
Young Chinese jet set shop at Hong Kong's Art Basel
Hong Kong (AFP) March 23, 2017
Huang Xiaoshuai and his wife last year splashed out $70,000 for a large painting of fish by Oscar-winning actor Adrien Brody - part of a growing clique of young, affluent Chinese art enthusiasts building their own high-end collections. The picture now hangs in their Shanghai home and the couple, along with other mainland collectors, have flown in to attend VIP events at this week's Art Bas ... more
Hong Kong (AFP) March 21, 2017
Distraught Hong Kong villagers battle to save their homes
Hong Kong (AFP) March 26, 2017
Beijing favourite Lam wins Hong Kong leadership
Hong Kong (AFP) March 23, 2017
China watches Hong Kong vote as protests threatened
Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

Operations against Kony's LRA 'coming to an end': US general
Washington (AFP) March 24, 2017
The US military is wrapping up operations against the Lord's Resistance Army in central Africa, even though its leader Joseph Kony is still at large, a top US general said Friday. "This thing is coming to an end," said General Thomas Waldhauser, head of the US military's Africa Command. A self-styled mystic and prophet, Kony launched a bloody rebellion three decades ago seeking to impose ... more
Abuja (AFP) March 21, 2017
Nigerian rights group denounces 'attacks' on Amnesty office
Bamako (AFP) March 19, 2017
Rags, not riches, defining Africa's urban explosion
Conakry (AFP) March 13, 2017
Senegal extradites Guinean soldier wanted over massacre
U.S. Army emphasizing mobility for next combat vehicle
Washington (UPI) Mar 22, 2017
The U.S. Army is seeking lighter armored vehicle concepts to better prepare for fighting in future battlefields, the service announced. Lighter combat vehicles, Army officials say, support the branch's strategy for placing a heavier emphasis on armored mobility. Army leaders discussed future designs and procurement concepts ahead of releasing a new maneuver force modernization strategy. ... more
Washington (UPI) Mar 22, 2017
ST Engineering to produce next-gen AFV for Singapore
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2017
German companies partner for German army contracts
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017
Ukroboronprom test fires Shkval, Stilet weapons


FNSS building amphibious assault vehicles for Turkish Navy
Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017
Turkey's FNSS reports it is to produce armored amphibious assault vehicles for the Turkish Naval Forces Command under a new government contract. A total of 27 vehicles - 23 personnel carriers, two command-and-control vehicles and two recovery vehicles – will be produced and will be based on an indigenous development model, FNSS said. The vehicles are to carry troops from a lan ... more
Washington (UPI) Mar 23, 2017
New French corvette passes first sea trials
Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2017
Lockheed Martin gets $98M for SEWIP production
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2017
USS Detroit completes combat qualification tests
NASA's hybrid computer enables Raven's autonomous rendezvous capability
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2017
A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment testing a relative navigation and autonomous docking capability known as Raven. Developed by the Satellite Servicing Projects Division, or SSPD, the carry-on luggage-sized module was launched February 19 aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraf ... more
Washington (AFP) March 21, 2017
Trump, NASA and a rare consensus: mission to Mars
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2017
COBALT Flight Demonstrations Fuse Technologies to Gain Precision Landing Results
Miami (AFP) March 24, 2017
Spacewalking French, US astronauts begin upgrade to orbiting lab


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