NASA says the Discovery shuttle will be on the most complex mission yet -- to give the International Space Station a new electricity system. The STS-116 will drop off Sunita for a six-month stay at the space lab.
'In a part of the world where the government tells people what not to eat and what slogans to shout and not shout, it is beneficial to develop a mentality that is science minded and therefore open-minded.' 'That is possibly why the space programme has always had support from all sides of the political divide,' says Aakar Patel.
Happy Feet is fast becoming a big hit in the US.
'The poetry of the earth is never dead,' John Keats once wrote. But when Keats wrote these lines, man had no way of reaching up to the hem of the sky and gaze down upon earth.
A hearing in the matter is scheduled for April 12 in downtown Vancouver. Bhandal's society as well as the Akali Singh and Guru Nanak Sikh temples support his petition. Sangha earned a PhD in environmental science in Germany.
Sri Srinivasan could become the first Indian-American to be on the bench of the US Supreme Court.
Reyat, a former Duncan electrician, could be imprisoned for an additional 14 years if convicted of perjury.
Sixth seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia, eighth seed Francesca Schiavone of Italy and India's Sania Mirza moved into the second round of the $1.3 million Qatar Open on Monday.
Retinoids can cure skin issues, but they can harm too, says Dr Syed Nazim Hussain.
The Glee star passed away in his hotel room on July 13.
"Moreover, PBD has a lot to do with government and each government takes advantage of it and utilises it for its vested interest."
Inderjit Singh Reyat, convicted bomb-maker in the 1985 Air India bombing case, has been charged with perjury arising from his testimony during the Kanishka trial.
Brand India should have more ambassadors. They should be people and opinion makers like the CEOs of top companies.
Continuing his campaign of reaching out to less privileged sections, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Mhow in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, the birthplace of Dr BR Ambedkar around whose work and ideology struggles of the suppressed classes are centred.
Trained to remain aboard the space station until July, Williams will also join space station commander Mike Lopez-Alegria for three spacewalks early in 2007.
The US Justice Department has accused Armstrong of defrauding the government by accepting millions of dollars in sponsorship money from the US Postal Service (USPS).
'It is my opinion that not releasing the Balakote Battle Damage Assessment immediately post strike was a phenomenal blunder, perception battle wise,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd), India's former air adviser in Pakistan.
Anita Datar is the sole US citizen to have been killed in the attack.
The effects of Hurricane Dennis, which roared ashore in Florida off to the northwest, could be felt at the launch site as the sky was grey and solidly overcast.
The awards have been instituted by the South Asian Journalists Association, and are given annually for excellence in journalism in various categories.
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at about 7:50 pm west southwest of the coastal community of Crescent City, according to the US Geological Survey Web site.
The prosecution claims Reyat, who admitted a minor role in the bombing, was refusing to identify others in the plot.
The demand has prompted the publishers to start a second printing.
The office on the seventh floor of a building in Columbia Plaza was sealed after the white powder fell from between the \n\npages of the passport when an envelope containing it was opened Thursday morning.
As the debate on outsourcing dominates the presidential election campaign in the United States, a leading economist has termed Democratic nominee John Kerry's opposition to American companies moving jobs overseas as faulty economics.
The doctors then successfully removed the lower portion of the stomach and artificially joined the remaining part with the small intestine.
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