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India To Send Astronauts On Its Own Rocket By 2017New Delhi (PTI) Apr 15, 2010 India will send two astronauts to space by 2017 in its own spacecraft and the Rs 12,400 project is likely to be approved before the Independence Day, ISRO chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan has said. With this achievement, India would join the select club of America, Russia and China which have such human space flight capabilities. The ISRO has submitted the Rs 12,400 crore project for indigenous astronaut launch programme which involves launching of Indian astronauts, using an Indian rocket from I ... read more |
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Nairobi (AFP) April 11, 2010Somali pirates seized a cargo ship and its 23-member Chinese crew on Sunday in the Indian Ocean west of the Seychelles, an organisation in Kenya that monitors piracy on the high seas said. The Rak Afrikana, with a cargo capacity of 7,561 tonnes, is owned by Rak Afrikana Shipping Ltd of the Seychelles, but sails under a flag of convenience from St Vincent and the Grenadines. "It developed ... more  
Beijing (AFP) April 11, 2010Rescuers recovered five more bodies from a huge coal mine that flooded two weeks ago in northern China, bringing the death toll in the disaster to 33, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday. The recovery of the bodies leaves five workers still unaccounted for in the unfinished Wangjialing mine in Shanxi province, which flooded on March 28. The flood had left 153 workers trapped und ... more  
Beijing (AFP) April 10, 2010Forty children in China died from the highly contagious hand, foot and mouth disease in March, almost doubling the death toll in the previous two months, state media reported. The disease, which is especially harmful to young children, also infected over 77,750 people last month, prompting calls to boost efforts to control the spread of the illness in China, the official Xinhua news agency s ... more |
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Death toll rises in flooded China mineBeijing (AFP) April 10, 2010 Rescuers recovered a total of three bodies at a coal mine in northern China, bringing the death toll from a massive flood to 28, state media reported Saturday. Ten people still remained unaccounted for at the huge, unfinished Wangjialing mine in Shanxi province, 13 days after it was flooded in the latest high-profile incident to hit China's notoriously dangerous mining sector. The flood left 153 workers trapped underground, but 115 were rescued alive on Monday in what officials dubbed a "miracle ... read more |
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