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Indian satellite confirmed US moon landing: scientist

India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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India abandons satellite after losing contact

(AP) -- India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said Monday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

India loses communication with lunar satellite (Update)

(AP) -- India's national space agency said communications with the country's only satellite orbiting the moon snapped Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the spacecraft.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Satellite data explains vanishing India groundwater

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite data, UC Irvine and NASA hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade - and they believe ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Full solar eclipse turns day to night in Asia

(AP) -- From the Ganges River in India to remote islands of the Pacific, the sun rose Wednesday only to vanish again, allowing the stars to twinkle into view in the longest total solar eclipse this century ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Australia discovered by the 'Southern Route'

Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that a ...

Biology / Evolution

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century

One one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand, 4 one-thousand... Continue counting and don't stop until you reach 399 one-thousand.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

India stands firm against binding emissions limits

(AP) -- India stood firm Sunday against Western demands to accept binding limits on carbon emissions even as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed optimism about an eventual climate change ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Special effects outsourcing grows in India

(AP) -- Outsourcing to India, long dominated by software engineering and back-office work, is expanding in new terrain: special effects for movies.

Technology / Business

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 1

India's Infosys posts profit dip on slowdown

India's Infosys Technologies said Wednesday its consolidated net profit for the fiscal fourth-quarter rose 29 percent from a year earlier, but fell sequentially due to the global slowdown.

Technology / Business

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Google, partners launch India Elections Center

Internet giant Google on Monday unveiled an online resource in English and Hindi for voters taking part in India's general elections later this month.

Technology / Internet

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IBM to shift 'large number' of US jobs to India

Computer giant IBM plans to cut a "large number" of US employees in its business services unit and transfer their duties to India, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

Technology / Business

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WHO: Money, drugs needed to rein in new TB strains

(AP) -- More money and better science are urgently needed to rein in new strains of tuberculosis that are tough or nearly impossible to treat, the WHO announced Monday in China, where the disease has long been a leading ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Third bidder joins race for Satyam

The board of India's Satyam Computer Services met Saturday to review a list of bidders for the fraud-hit outsourcer as a third company announced it had joined the race.

Technology / Business

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