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Government Offers 100 Acres Of Land For ISROs' Space Institute Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Nov 22, 2007 
Seeking to end the long-drawn row over the land for ISRO's Space Institute here, Kerala Government on Wednesday offered 100 acres of land free-of-cost close to the Ponmudi, a hill station in the district, to the space agency. Disclosing this during his weekly cabinet briefing, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan denied reports in a section of media that the proposed land at Thennur village was fore ... read more
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India, China to break ice with first-ever wargames
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 21, 2007India and China will hold their first wargames in December as part of a series of joint exercises between the two Asian neighbours who fought a war in 1962, an official announced Wednesday. The announcement came immediately after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Singapore to discuss a possible bilateral leadership meeting ... more Analysis: EU deals with Russia weaken bloc 
Brussels (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 Russia is taking advantage of its energy exports and the European Union's lack of unity to influence the bloc's member states in their foreign policies, a recent report says. "While EU leaders believe that peace and stability are built through interdependence, Russia's leaders are working to create a situation where the EU needs Russia more than Russia needs the EU," the report release ... more Dalai Lama bemoans deforestation of Tibet 
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 21, 2007The Dalai Lama called Wednesday for special care to preserve Tibet's ecosystem, saying that corruption among Chinese bureaucrats was worsening deforestation. Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, who is on a visit to Japan, said that as the Tibetan plateau was high in altitude and dry, "once you damage the environment, it will take a long period to recover." "Therefore, we need special care," ... more Scientists to discuss ways to 'climate-proof' crops 
Hyderabad, India (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Scientists will discuss ways to protect crops from climate change and boost farm produce when they gather in this Indian city this week, organisers of the meet said Wednesday. Experts from 15 international agricultural research centres will discuss how to "climate-proof" crops, at the three-day meet starting Thursday, said Gopikrishna Warrier, spokesman for the International Crops Research I ... more Don't Judge A Brook By Its Color -- Brown Waters Are More Natural 
London, UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Over the last 20 years lakes and streams in remote parts of the UK, southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have been increasingly stained brown by dissolved organic matter. In this week's Nature journal (22 November) an international team, led by researchers from UCL (University College London) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), demonstrates that the colour change is indic ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 21, 2007China's unquenchable thirst for oil is contributing to sustained high prices, but it is not the main factor in crude's latest surge toward new records, analysts said Wednesday. Speculative trading, geopolitics such as unrest in the Middle East and US efforts to fill its oil reserves, as well as the weakness in the US currency, are more important reasons for crude nearing 100 dollars a barrel ... more US backs building of new nuclear power plant in Armenia: official 
Yerevan (AFP) Nov 21, 2007The United States is backing Armenian plans to build a new atomic power station by 2016 to replace a Soviet-era nuclear plant that has raised safety concerns, a US diplomat said Wednesday. "The US government supports the building of a new plant not only to improve your energy security, but also because of continuing concerns regarding the safety of the existing nuclear plant in Armenia," US ... more Analysis: Billions pumped into Niger Delta 
Port Harcourt, Nigeria (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 Nigeria will invest $75 billion over the next five years to improve the oil and gas sectors with the help of foreign investors, the country's Ministry of Petroleum announced. Odein Ajumogobia, Nigeria's petroleum minister, said the $15 billion annual investment would fund exploration both on and offshore the oil-rich Niger Delta and improve current joint projects with foreign oil firms ... more India, IAEA launch consultations over nuclear safeguards 
Vienna (AFP) Nov 21, 2007India and the UN nuclear watchdog formally launched consultations Wednesday that are needed to secure a landmark nuclear deal between New Delhi and Washington. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei and the head of India's atomic energy commission, Anil Kakodkar, met at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, the agency said in a statement. "Dr ElBaradei and Dr Kakodkar agr ... more |
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London (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Britain is to build the biggest biomass plant in the world, Business Secretary John Hutton said after giving the green light to the renewable energy project. The 350-megawatt wood chip-fuelled electricity generating plant will be sited in the industrial town of Port Talbot on the south Wales coast. It will cost 400 million pounds (830 million dollars, 560 million euros) to construct. "Th ... more Putin warns NATO against border build-up 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 20, 2007President Vladimir Putin warned NATO against "muscle-flexing" on Russia's border Tuesday and ordered top generals to raise the combat readiness of the country's nuclear missiles. Meanwhile, the armed forces chief of staff, General Yury Baluyevsky, also confirmed that Russia would suspend adherence to a key Cold War arms treaty on December 12, news agencies reported. "In violation of prev ... more Chinese firm to construct 243 million dollar hydropower station 
Lusaka (AFP) Nov 20, 2007A Chinese firm signed a 243 million dollar deal on Tuesday to construct a new hydro-electric power station in Zambia, officials said. Syno-hdyro Corporation of China will construct the Kariba North Bank power station on Zambezi river, about 225 kilometres (140 miles) south of the capital Lusaka, said Rodnie Sisala, managing director of Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (Zesco). Sisal ... more Nuclear Desalination 
Anushaktinagar, India (SPX) Nov 21, 2007New solutions to the ancient problem of maintaining a fresh water supply is discussed in a special issue of the Inderscience publication International Journal of Nuclear Desalination. With predictions that more than 3.5 billion people will live in areas facing severe water shortages by the year 2025, the challenge is to find an environmentally benign way to remove salt from seawater. Globa ... more
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