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Climate talks make progress, pressure on US

Environment ministers made progress on Tuesday towards a scaled-down climate deal in Copenhagen next month, with Washington facing pressure to promise deep cuts by 2020 in greenhouse gas emissions. About 40 environment ministers met in the Danish capital to find ways to clinch a deal to fight climate change despite deadlock on issues such as [...]

Nuclear installations across country put on alert over possible terror threat

India’s nuclear installations were put on high alert in the wake of possible terror threat, as the Centre asked State governments including Maharashtra where BARC is located to beef up security there. Seized of the threats, Government said the atomic facilities were “absolutely secure” after getting specific intelligence inputs that terrorists may target nuke facilities. [...]

Pachauri rubbishes govt-backed report on melting of glaciers

Rubbishing the claim by a government-backed study that melting of glaciers was not due to climate change, leading environmentalist R K Pachauri on Sunday dubbed it as “totally unsubstantiated scientific opinion” and flayed Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh for endorsing it. Pachauri, the head of Nobel prize winner Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said it [...]

After Chandrayaan, NASA’s LCROSS finds water on Moon

Two months after India’s maiden Chandrayaan-I mission discovered traces of water on Moon, NASA on Saturday said it has found “significant amounts” of water ice on its surface, a finding that could trigger a hunt for life in outer space and boost hopes for a permanent lunar base. “Indeed, yes, we found water. And we [...]

Chandrayaan-II mission to be completed by 2012-13: Annadurai

Chandrayaan-II moon mission, which will help in analysis of mineral composition and undertake terrain mapping of the moon, will be completed by 2012-13, Project Director of Chandrayaan Dr M Annadurai said on Saturday. “The Rs 425 crore project will be completed by 2012-13. As opposed to Chandrayaan-1 which was a moon orbiter, in Chandrayaan-2, the [...]

V Ramakrishnan wins Nobel prize for Chemistry

Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a senior scientist at the MRC Laborartory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge, has won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with two others, the Nobel Committee announced on Wednesday. President Prathiba Devisingh Patil has hailed the achievement of Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan saying that it is a matter of pride for [...]

Govt’s new health insurance scheme for BPL families

The Government has introduced a new health insurance scheme for Below Poverty Line (BPL) card holders, which would allow their families to get treatment free of cost at all government hospitals, Union Labour Minister Mallikarjun Kharge said on Sunday. Under the scheme, five members of a BPL family could avail treatment at any government and [...]

Space shuttle lands in California after detour

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts took a cross-country detour and landed safely in California after stormy weather prevented them from returning home to Florida for the second day in a row. Discovery swooped through the sky and touched down at Edwards Air Force Base an hour before sunset, ending its delivery trip to [...]

Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS

Japan launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station on Friday, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet in 2010. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the HTV transportation vehicle atop an H-2B rocket, which is also on its first flight, as [...]

Astronauts conduct final spacewalk of Discovery mission

Astronauts from the US space shuttle Discovery ventured out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday for a third spacewalk that will be the last of their mission. NASA astronaut Danny Olivas and European Space Agency astronaut Christer Fuglesang left the ISS at 0209 IST for what is expected to be a 6.5 hour [...]

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