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  • India, Sweden agree to enhance coop in medical products

    Taking their collaboration in the field of health further, India and Sweden have decided to enhance cooperation in medical and pharmaceutical products, public health research, infectious disease control and anti-microbial resistance. At a meeting in New Delhi on Monday, between Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and visiting state secretary of Ministry of Health and […]

    India, Syria launches joint business council

    India and Syria on Sunday launched a Joint Business Council to double the bilateral economic and trade volumes with visiting President Pratibha Patil saying that at current levels they were “far below potential”. A Memorandum of Understanding for setting up the India Syria Business Council was signed in the presence of the Indian head of state at a […]

    India’s 20th nuclear power plant goes critical

    India’s 20th nuclear power plant Saturday became operational at Kaiga in Karnataka taking the total installed atomic power capacity in the country to 4780 MW. The indigenously-developed 220 MW capacity Unit 4 of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station attained criticality at 8.07.22 am making India the sixth country in the world to have 20 or more nuclear power plants in […]

    Indian women 4X400 relay team wins gold

    Indian women’s 4X400m relay quartet lived up to expectations by defending the gold medal won in 2006 with AC Ashwini anchoring the team to glory in the Asian Games at Guangzhou on Friday. Running in the third leg, Ashwini, who earlier clinched the yellow metal in the 400m hurdles, gave the Indian team a huge […]

    Nuclear-capable Agni I missile test-fired successfully

    India’s nuclear capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile, which has a striking range of 700 kms, was successfully test-fired by the Army during a user trial from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast on Thursday. “The trial of Agni-I was smooth and the test flight was fully successful,” ITR Director S P […]

    India keen for security cooperation agreement with UAE

    India is keen to sign an early agreement with the United Arab Emirates on security cooperation, addressing issues specially related to counter-terrorism and maritime security. President Pratibha Patil during discussions with Vice-President and Prime Minister of UAE Shiekh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Makhtoum on Wednesday stressed the need for early signing of the Agreement on Security […]

    Nuclear-capable Agni I missile test-fired

    India on Thursday test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-I strategic ballistic missile, with a range of 700 kms, as part of the Army’s user trial from the Integrated Test Range at Wheeler Island off Orissa coast. The indigenously developed surface-to-surface single-stage missile, powered by solid propellants, was test fired from a rail mobile launcher at about 1010 […]

    Govt sets USD 24 bn textiles export target for FY’11

    Buoyed by the surge in outward shipments of textiles in recent months, the government has fixed the export target for textiles in FY’11 at USD 24.4 billion, 9 pc more than the previous fiscal. During April-July, 2010, exports of textiles and clothing products, including handicrafts, increased by 11.5 percent to USD 7.57 billion from USD […]

    PM asks varsities to groom global leaders

    With India emerging in the forefront of the “innovative world”, the universities should focus more on research so that the country can build on its achievements in various areas such as biotechnology and nuclear science, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. At the same time, Singh pointed out that accelerating technological and social changes have put […]

    Somdev sails into Asian Games final

    Somdev Devvarman inched closer to a historic tennis gold at the Asian Games as the gritty Indian overcame a stunning second-set lapse to tame Tatsuma Ito and seal a place in the men’s singles summit clash in Guangzhou on Monday. The second seed Somdev came back from the brink to subdue Japanese rival with a […]