New Delhi: Agni-V, India's newest strategic missile, on Thursday took its first successful flight and India joined a select club of nations with such technology. Agni-V's five thousand kilometer range puts all of Asia within reach plus much of the Indian Ocean, parts of Africa and Europe. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, "The successful launch of Agni-V missile is a tribute to the sophistication and the commitment to national causes...
07:19 PM, Apr 19, 2012
The earthquake off northern Indonesia is believed to have triggered a tsunami. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami watch for the Indian Ocean region. The map below shows the times when the tsunami is likely to hit the Indian coast. ...
03:38 PM, Apr 11, 2012
6:40 PM Small waves about half-a-metre high and within normal tide limits had already washed into the Campbell Bay area on the Great Nicobar island, the official said. 6:39 PM Six teams of National Disaster Response Force were also kept in readiness at Chennai and an equal number moved to Hindon airport in the national capital. 6:12 PM Indonesia Disaster Agency says major quakes produced only small tsunami waves because...
03:32 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Moscow: Meteor-1, the Soviet Union's first fully operational weather satellite, will Monday night re-enter the Earth's atmosphere after more than four decades in orbit, the web site of the US Strategic Command said. The Meteor satellite series was developed in the Soviet Union during the sixties. On March 26, 1969, a Vostok rocket launched Meteor-1, the very first version of the Soviet Meteor satellite network, into orbit. The satellite terminated...
11:59 AM, Mar 27, 2012
Democracy is rough road littered with potholes. Either you avoid them and play safe, or you fill them up for a smoother ride in the ...
01:16 PM, Mar 02, 2012
Rome: Criticising the Kerala Police for arresting servicemen acting to protect a cargo ship from pirates. Italian foreign ministry on Monday said that Italian authorities should be allowed to deal with allegations its forces killed two Indian fishermen. The two Italian marines were part of a security detachment assigned to protect the merchant vessel Enrica Lexie from attacks in the Indian Ocean when the incident happened on Wednesday. The marines,...
09:02 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Male: When Mohammed Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, he opened the doors for New Delhi like never before. GMR got the contract to rebuild the international airport, prompting religious extremists calling for Nasheed's head. But more importantly, after trying in vain for three decades, India had finally got a strategic foothold in the Indian Ocean. In an exclusive security arrangement with India, Nasheed allowed Delhi...
07:46 AM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Monday marks seven years to the Tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean claiming over 2 lakh lives and decimating several places in Indonesia and Andaman and Nicobar Islands in 2004. A number of remembrance ceremonies and related activities are planned around Phuket for the lives lost. The disastrous undersea quake smothered the coasts of 11 Asian and African countries damaging life and property. ...
10:22 AM, Dec 26, 2011
New Delhi: With songs like Minds without Fear, Kya Khayaal Hai, Masti ki Basti, Maaya, I Believe, Sacred Science, Changing World, Khule Da Rabb, Duur Kinara and No I.D. Required " The Dewarists have made their place on prime time TV. Part travelogue, part documentary " the show on Star World is a journey made by some of the well known names in music as they unite to compose something...
03:53 PM, Dec 13, 2011
Beijing: In a move that may cause unease in India, China on Monday announced that it will set up its first military base abroad in the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles to "seek supplies and recuperate" facilities for its Navy. The naval fleet may seek supplies or recuperate at appropriate harbours in Seychelles or other countries as needed during escort missions, Chinese Defence Ministry announced on Monday. China has already...
12:29 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Hyderabad: There will be a total lunar eclipse on Saturday which will last for 52 minutes. It will be the longest till 2018, according to the Planetary Society, India. India is the best place to watch the eclipse as it will be visible from various parts of the country in different phases from the beginning till the end. The moon entering the shadow of earth and leaving the shadow will...
11:35 AM, Dec 10, 2011
Male: Extremism and religious fundamentalism are among the common challenges India and Maldives are faced with, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday as the two countries agreed to adopt a multi-pronged approach to deal with these problems. In a rare honour given to a visiting dignitary, Singh addressed the "People's Majlis" (Parliament) in which he said India's security, like that of the host country, was closely linked to what...
01:58 PM, Nov 12, 2011
Beijing: China on Saturday announced plans to expand its seabed mineral explorations in the Indian Ocean after an international authority approved its bid to mine for polymetallic sulphide ore, much to the surprise of India. Beijing has already got approval to explore in a 10,000 sq km seabed area in southwest Indian Ocean for the ore and now it plans to invest more to expand the "depth and scope of...
04:51 PM, Sep 17, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Navy intercepted a pirate mother vessel 600 nautical miles west of the Indian coast in the Arabian Sea on Monday and rescued 13 hostages. Sixty-one pirates have also been caught in the operation carried out by Navy's INS Kalpeni. The pirate mother vessel has been identified as Vega-5. INS Kalpeni intercepted Vega 5 in the Arabian Sea on the night of March 11 after a Naval...
09:25 AM, Mar 14, 2011
New Delhi: What is a tsunami and what makes it so lethal? And is India prepared to handle one, of the type that hit Japan on Friday following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale. The earthquake was the fifth most powerful in over 100 years. It stuck 10 kilometers below the sea, 400 kilometers from Japan's capital Tokyo, yet it ruined the city. When that quake rocked the...
11:16 PM, Mar 11, 2011
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