Bangladesh has sought India's help for setting up a 600 MW nuclear power plant to meet its growing energy needs. "We have approached India for help to set up a nuclear power plant," said Hamid Khan, a senior scientist in the Atomic Energy Centre run by the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC).
The Bangladesh government had earlier approached a European nation for supplying nuclear reactors but later chose India as it was "closer to home", he said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to set up a space platform in the next 25-20 years, its Chairman, G Madhavan Nair, said here today.
Speaking at the DEI deemed university, Dayalbagh, on ISRO programmes for the future, he said the space platform would help bring back a capsule safely to earth. Normally, the capsule is either damaged or destroyed.
The Airbus 380 super jumbo, the world's largest passenger aircraft, will land for the first time in India on Sunday, 6 May 2007 at the New Delhi international airport.
Currently, only the Delhi, Mumbai and Kochi airports are capable of landing the A380, which is being configured to carry as many as 555 passengers in a standard seating format. The size of the aircraft, as well as its passenger load, means that airports around the world are trying to figure out ways to accommodate the plane and handle
His Majesty the King granted an audience to Lieutenant General Deepak Kapoor, the Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCOAS) of the Indian Army on Thursday, May 3.
Lt. General Deepak Kapoor’s visit to Bhutan is the first visit to any foreign country after he assumed the post of the Vice Chief in January of this year. He was accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Kirti Kapoor on the three-day visit.
The Indian Army is engaging in a joint training exercise with the Maldivian National Defence Forces (MNDF), which includes a two-day counter-terrorist exercise.
The week-long exercise began on Saturday, a statement issued here said.
Codenamed Ekuverin, an infantry battalion of the Southern Command is involved in the exercise on the Indian side.
The Indian Army is all set to test the surface-to-surface medium range Prithvi-1 missile next week, say officials. The missile, which went into production after a series of testing, will be launched from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) located at Chandipur in Orissa's Balasore district.
"This is a limited stock production (LSP) test by the users (Indian Army). A Prithvi-1 missile has been randomly selected from the already prepared missiles and will be used for the test," an official source told the media.
To overcome last minute hitches in the milestone development of the country’s first indigenous aircraft engine, the government is proposing to allow Hindustan Aeronautics (HAL) to join hands with international design houses. According to the latest report of the Parliamentary standing committee on defence,
The $40-billion defence and aerospace major Lockheed Martin is in talks with Indian IT major Wipro Technologies for a technical alliance , as it goes about tapping the growing Indian defence market.
According to sources, Lockheed Martin is in the race to meet C4ISR-related requirements of the India Air Force (IAF). The C4ISR programme integrates data and information sources on a single network platform during any kind of combat situation . Here, Wipro is likely to play a key role as a technology solutions provider.
Even as the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the defence has pulled up the Defence Research and Development (DRDO) for delay in the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas project, the Bangalore headquartered Defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is using all its resources to speed-up the prestigious project.
The US has said it has not seen the letter written by a group of American lawmakers to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on New Delhi's ties with Tehran and its implications to the civilian nuclear deal.
But it noted that the Bush administration has already raised the matter with the Indian Government.
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