State-run NTPC has agreed to buy natural gas from Reliance Industries but is opposed to paying marketing margin to the private firm and wants to use the fuel at plants other than Kawas and Gandhar that were identified by the government.
The Brahmos supersonic cruise missile was on Thursday successfully test-fired in vertical launch configuration for the first time in Bay of Bengal.
The exercise is taking place at a time India and China are locked in a nearly six-month-long bitter border standoff in eastern Ladakh that has significantly strained their ties.
Henry Kissinger once said, 'It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.' India will have to wait and see, observes Rajeev Srinivasan.
India on Thursday test-fired its indigenously designed and developed Advanced Air Defence missile, capable of destroying any hostile ballistic missiles at low altitude, from the Integrated Test Range off Orissa's east coast.
Authorities in Dhaka on Wednesday night ordered a massive evacuation in the coastlines with the Met office issuing "great danger signal" for southwestern Mongla and danger signal for south-eastern Chittagong and Cox's Bazar ports in view of the severe cyclonic storm created over Bay of Bengal.
India on Friday successfully test-fired its indigenously-developed nuclear-capable Prithvi-II and Dhanush ballistic missiles in separate trials, boosting the armed forces' operational readiness.
India is all set for the maiden launch on Monday of an indigenous winged Reusable Launch Vehicle--that is being dubbed as its own space shuttle--from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh.
Rajaneesh Vilakudy salutes former India captain Sourav Ganguly, who will retire after the Test series against Australia.
The low-lying areas of Patna, like Kankerbagh, Rajendra Nagar, Patliputra and Sri Krishnapuri, were in waist-deep water.
The MiG29K and MiG29KUB, the aircraft carrier's primary fighters, spent more time in the hangar than in the air, with fleet serviceability remaining below 50 per cent, reports Ajai Shukla.
The missile has a strike range of more than 2,000 km.
Pledging to fight American imperialism, Communist Party of India-Marxist general secretary Prakash Karat and Communist Part of India national secretary D Raja flagged off a protest jatha from Chennai to Vishakapattanam.
For one, triangles are involved.
The accident took place on board Indian Navy's latest acquisition, INS Jalashwa, while the ship was taking part in the Naval exercises between Visakhapatnam and Port Blair, the Indian Navy spokesman said.
Tamil Nadu continued to experience monsoon fury, with heavy rains pounding various parts of the state under the influence of a well marked low pressure area over Bay of Bengal, as the death toll from rain-related incidents climbed to 59.
Prithvi-II is capable of carrying 500-1,000 kilogram of warheads and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines.
B. Ramalinga Raju: his admission of manipulating Satyam's books for 'several years' has undermined faith in Indian corporate governance
"The success of the mission assumes significance as DRDO scientists were able to 'continuously track the missile and feed its trajectory into computers to launch its interception."
A mock air defence exercise relating to India's indigenously developed interceptor missile is carried out from Wheeler's island off the Orissa coast today.
Normal life was thrown out of gear in the city and several parts of Tamil Nadu as heavy rains lashed the state for the fourth successive day today, claiming at least 20 lives.
The plane went missing on Friday while flying from Chennai to Port Blair with 29 people on board.
Monsoon is likely to arrive in Kerala on May 29, the India Meteorological Department predicted on Wednesday. ''This time, the monsoon onset over Kerala is likely to be on May 29, with a model error of four days,'' the IMD said in a statement. With strengthening and deepening of monsoon winds and widespread rainfall activity, southwest monsoon advanced into the southeast Bay of Bengal, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and north Andaman Sea on May 12, almost 8 days in advance.
District collectors have been asked to take up the assessment of house and crop damage and submit reports to the government.
Marking growing military ties with India, the French Navy proposes to field its largest amphibious assault ship 'Mistral' in the 'Varuna-2008' naval war games, which would be held in the Bay of Bengal early in May. Mistral, a 32,300-tonnes displacement warship, would be accompanied by missile frigates and stealth ships in war games to be held off India's Eastern Sea board, in which amphibious landings would form a major component.
As many as 57 villages were marooned and 60 mandals were affected. As many as 33,570 families were affected out of whom 9,257 families were evacuated and lodged in 31 relief camps.
The missile was launched from a mobile launcher at the Integrated Test Range at the Wheelers' Island, a defence base in the Bay of Bengal on Orissa coast near in Balasore, Orissa, at 1015 hours. This was the second user trial of the precision target hitting missile to test its 'operational readiness', the scientists said. The last trial was conducted on October 5, 2007, from the same launch site.
The DRDO says the programme has now reached maturity, and that international sanctions cannot hurt it. There is also a degree of self-confidence in the DRDO, which allows it to acknowledge the role played by other countries. International collaboration is no longer a bad word.
In Chennai, rains are expected to start early Thursday morning and intensify gradually. Government schools in the city have been shut down for the next two days
India has put on standby three ships and a maritime surveillance aircraft for assistance in the search operation after an AirAsia flight with 162 people on board on Sunday went missing en route from Indonesia to Singapore after losing contact with air traffic controllers.
'When we talk of disaster, it is a combination of hazard and vulnerability.' 'If we reduce vulnerability, it will remain a hazard.'
The Prithvi-II missile is capable of carrying 500 kg to 1,000 kg of warheads and is thrusted by liquid propulsion twin engines.
This piece of forecast from the India Meteorological Department and the European Centre for Medium-Range weather Forecasts may bring cheer to Indian farmers
With the tribes together accounting for less than 1,000 people, largely disconnected from the rest of the world and having very low immunity levels, anthropologists fear they could get extinct should the pandemic spreads its tentacles across the islands.
Top naval sources said on Monday no live ammunition will be let off but missile, submarine and air tactics will be simulated and recorded in the manouveres in the Bay of Bengal lasting five days.
Left's massive campaign against joint naval exercise
Gopalpur-on-Sea is a picturesque and peaceful seaside resort offering pristine, palm fringed beaches.
Efforts are reportedly underway to locate it and bring it ashore.
India successfully tested the advanced version of Lakhsya, the indigenously built Pilotless Target Aircraft from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore, for the third consecutive day on Wednesday.
