China plans world first manned plunge to 7,000 meters below sea level

September 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Administration has swung into action to rescue villagers dwelling on the banks of the River Yamuna on Saturday The river swelled close to danger level following incessant rains in the catchments areas. According to official sources, the water level in Yamuna had reached 204.55 meters on Saturday morning.

September 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian Government on Friday summoned the Deputy High Commissioner of Pakistan Riffat Masood and registered its strong protest against the Government of Pakistan's so called "Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order -2009" and its move to construct the Bunji Hydroelectric Project in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Insofar as the "Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order -2009 was concerned, the Indian Government charged Pakistan with denying basic democratic rights to the people in those parts of the state of Jammu and Kashmir under its illegal occupation for the past six decades.

September 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday observed the Centre should lodge protest with China Government on reports of its troops' incursion in international border in Ladakh region. "Reports of Chinese incursion in Ladakh is a matter of grave concern.

August 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese woman, who is in her early 50s, has made plans to pull a plane using just her pigtail, after she used it to pull five cars, with a man sitting inside each, for a distance of 50 meters along a road. Zhang Tingting, a native of Henan province, performed the feat on August 23 in Tongzhou district, Beijing, reports the China Daily.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - External Affairs Minister S. M.Krishna on Wednesday informed the Lok Sabha that China has proposed for the establishment of a hotline between the Chinese Premier and the Prime Minister of India to maintain regular contacts at the highest level.

July 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Though the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has expressed its intent to send a manned moon mission by 2015, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan Thursday told parliament that India has no such plans. In reply to a question on whether India proposes to send a man to the moon, Chavan said: "No sir." The minister, however, informed the Rajya Sabha that "India is planning for a follow-on mission Chandrayaan-2, which has an orbitor and lander which land on moon (sic) and a rover which moves on the surface of the moon to probe its surface".

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Archaeologists have found ancient jade vessels in a tomb dating back five thousand years in China, which represents the last Neolithic jade culture of Yangtze River Delta of the country. The tomb, found in the cities of Haining and Xiaoshan, is the deepest tomb ever found in Zhejiang province.

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - If reports are to be believed, China may send manned flights to the moon and set up a base there by 2030, and also may land on Mars by 2050. In a roadmap for the development of China's space technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said that China's manned spacecraft could also launch from a moon base to explore further planets in 2050.

May 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - China's first Mars probe, Yinghuo-1, is expected to be launched in the second half of this year, according to an official of the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology (SAST). The probe had passed test of the research phase, Zhang Weiqiang, deputy secretary of SAST Committee of the Communist Party of China, told the third Shanghai International Aerospace Technology and Equipment Exhibition.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - When Indias first manned mission to space takes off, possibly in 2017, it will have Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board. Let me promise you one thing, if there is a (Indian) man on moon (read space), it will be from the Indian Air Force, IAF chief Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major told reporters here.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) will soon introduce one-litre water bottles at a cheaper rate, a top official said here Monday. 'We plan to enter the one-litre bottled water segment very soon, though right now only discussions are on,' Santosh Vaidya, additional chief executive of DJB told IANS on the sidelines of a Confederation of Indian Industry seminar.

April 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - China has said that it was irresponsible on the part of other countries to allege that cyber-attacks originated in China without having thorough investigation. "We have reiterated many times our policies of firmly opposing and severely cracking down on all crimes that damage the Internet, including hacking," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters.

March 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - When India's first manned space mission takes off, likely in 2017, it will have Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel on board. The IAF is to train two of its personnel for the mission, in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said a senior IAF official.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reports have indicated that China is planning to launch 15 to 16 satellites in 2009. "Though the global financial crisis is taking toll on world economy, it has no impact on China's space programs," said Zhang Jianqi, deputy chief commander of the manned space project.

March 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - China is working on an ambitions ocean exploration program that may send men to 7,000 meters deep into the ocean, for the first time in the world. According to Sun Zhihui, director of the State Oceanic Administration, a deep-sea manned submersible for the mission has been assembled last year and the test would begin this year.