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55 Oil Exploration Blocks Offered
In the largest ever
effort to attract investments in
oil and natural gas exploration,
the Government is offering 55 oil
exploration blocks and 10 coal bed
methane blocks for bidding.<More>
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Army Spends More on Surveillance
Scientific Advisor
to Defense minister M. Natarajan
said an Airborne Early Warning
System (AEWS) was in advanced
stages of design.<More>
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India-France JV to Compete in
Launch Business
The Indian Space Research
Organization has teamed up with
France's Eads/Astrium to challenge
the US predominance in the 4
kilowatts satellite payloads with
a launch mass of 2-3 tons.<More>
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ISRO to Launch G-SAT4
The Sri Lankan
Government (SLG) and the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
concluded Norway facilitated
direct talks in Geneva agreeing to
4 action items and promised to
meet again in April.<More>
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Lanka and LTTE Agrees for
Ceasefire
The Sri Lankan
Government (SLG) and the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
concluded Norway facilitated
direct talks in Geneva agreeing to
4 action items and promised to
meet again in April.<More>
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Most Samples Test H5N1 Negative
The Health Ministry
said that 94 of 95 samples tested
negative of bird flu virus. The
Ministry said that barring one
case, the National Institute of
Virology (NIV) at Pune and
National Institute of Communicable
Diseases (NICD) in Delhi confirmed
the rest negative.<More>
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SC Regrets AP's Environmental
Damage
Addressing public
interest litigation by
Non-Governmental Organization
(NGO) Intellectuals' Forum, the
Supreme Court (SC) said that it
couldn’t reverse environmental
damage due to "development."<More>
