The final countdown for the lift-off of Indian Space Research Organisation's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C 8) began at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. The PSLV's 11th flight is expected to take place from the new sophisticated second launch pad at 3.30 p.m. on Monday (April 23).
The vehicle will put into orbit Italian Space Agency's Agile satellite for studying astronomical phenomena in the distant universe.
They left trails of tri coloured smoke in the sky and had the crowd spellbound along the entire expanse of Marina from Light House to Napier Bridge — on Sunday evening.
By the time the Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel wound up the hour-long spectacle, close to three lakh people standing shoulder-to-shoulder were staring at the sky expecting more.
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia was successfully tested from a range at Chandipur near here today, paving the way for its induction into the army.
Terming the test a "100 per cent success", top missile scientist A Sivathanu Pillai, who heads the BrahMos project, told PTI on phone from Chandipur:
By: Zee News India will launch an Italian satellite via a home-built rocket this week, seeking entry into an exclusive club of nations that have put their space programmes to commercial use.
The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) will on Monday
The year's first Red Flag-Alaska ended April 20 after two weeks of intense, air-combat training over Alaska's mountain ranges.
Training in a multi-service, multi-platform, combat operations exercise involving coalition forces was an opportunity that cannot be under emphasized, said Lt. Col. Eddie Osteen, the 353rd Combat Training Squadron commander and the host squadron commander.
Terming India's continuing ties with Tehran "a potentially serious barrier to future cooperation" with the US, senior American lawmakers have urged New Delhi to "cease all military cooperation with Iran immediately."
In a letter to be delivered to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, senior lawmakers led by Republican Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and Democrat Barbara Boxer of California also hoped India will "publicly declare your intent to
Expressing frustration over the slow pace of negotiations on the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal, the Bush administration, however, has made it clear that some of the things insisted upon by India require changing American laws which cannot be accommodated.
"Fair to say that there`s probably some frustration on the part of the administration as well as the Congress on the pace of these negotiations," State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters here
Russia expects to begin test flights of the fifth generation fighter plane in 2009, while talks are underway for Indian involvement in the project codenamed "prospective frontline aircraft".
"The first flight has been tentatively set for 2009," head of the United Aircraft Corporation Alexei Fyodorov told Russian media.
During President Vladimir Putin's India visit in January last, New Delhi and Moscow
As of last month, India no longer requires industry offsets when buying arms or defense gear from other governments, but does require technology transfer in such offset-exempt deals, an Indian Defence Ministry procurement official said. In 2005, India overhauled its policy on arms import deals worth more than $71 million, requiring the foreign vendor to invest 30 percent of the contract’s value in private or state-owned enterprises in India.
The cabinet committee on security (CCS) on Thursday cleared the agenda for the two-day India-China talks starting on Friday. The talks are aimed at resolving a long-standing boundary dispute between the two countries, and will be conducted by India's national security adviser, MK Narayanan and Chinese vice foreign minister, Dai Bingguo, special representatives of both the countries.
The talks will be held over two days in New Delhi and Ooty.
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