India to set up first space-themed park by 2010

September 4th, 2009 Audigier won't make Jackson's home a public spaceLOS ANGELES — Christian Audigier will not transform Michael Jackson's former home into a public space. Michele Elyzabeth, a spokeswoman for the Ed Hardy clothing founder, said Audigier would move into the sprawling Holmby Hills mansion at the end of Jackson's lease on Dec.

July 22nd, 2009 BHOPAL - As the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century passed through India on Wednesday, wildlife officials of a zoological park in Bhopal said they witnessed a change in the behaviour of zoo tigers. Wildlife officials at the Van Vihar National Park, who for the past seven days were keeping a close watch on the animals to analyse the impact of eclipse on them, said that during the eclipse period, the tigers behaved differently.

June 23rd, 2009 PARIS - An anonymous car owner in Paris, apparently fed up with looking for a place to park his car, has purchased a parking space in the heart of the city for the astronomical sum of 470,000 euros ($654,000), the daily La Tribune reported Tuesday. The space is located on the bank of the Seine River in the heart of the chic Sixth Arrondissement.

June 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - An owner of a mechanical workshop in Bangalore has created a small car, which needs less space to park. Narsimha Raju, 48, created the two-seater car to replace the two wheelers moving on the roads within the same budget.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Realty major Parsvnath Developers will develop an IT park in Gurgaon, it said Thursday. The company is already in possession of the land and will invest Rs.135 crore in the project, Parsvnath Technica, it said in a statement.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A sex theme park in China that exhibits naked human sculptures, giant genitals and boasts of a sex technique workshop has got some people hot under the collar. 'Love Land', billed as China's first-ever sex theme park, is scheduled to open October in the entertainment zone near the Yangtze River in Chongqing, reports the China Daily.

May 14th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russian space agency Roscosmos and the US space agency NASA have agreed on a new price for ferrying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012, an official said. NASA will now pay $51 million for a single seat on Soyuz spacecraft.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA officials said Thursday that the Obama administration will increase funding for the US space agency by five percent in 2010 and will conduct a review of its programme for manned space flight. The $18.7-billion budget represents a $903.6-million increase over 2009 and includes money given to NASA under President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.

April 17th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes hosted a princess-themed party for their daughter Suri, who will turn three Saturday. The star couple threw the party Thursday, two days before Suri's birthday.

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 9th, 2009 BEIJING - China plans to launch 15 to 16 satellites this year, an official said here Monday. 'Though the global financial crisis is taking a toll on the world economy, it has no impact on China's space programmes,' said Zhang Jianqi, deputy chief commander of the manned space project.

February 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US space agency NASA has set a new date for the launch of space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) due to technical reasons, an official said. The launch has been postponed twice and is now tentatively set for Feb 27, following an assessment of shuttle flow control valve testing.

February 11th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has kicked off a 12-year project to send an astronaut into space, just days after putting its first home-built satellite into orbit, Press TV reported Thursday. 'The programme's preliminary needs, assessments and feasibility studies have been carried out,' said Reza Taqipour, the head of the Iranian Aerospace Organization.

January 11th, 2009 RAIPUR - Encouraged by Chandrayaan-I's success in October, India has planned a 'manned moon mission' by 2015, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Monday.

January 3rd, 2009 SHILLONG - India is planning to hoist the tricolour on the moon by 2020, a space agency official said here Sunday, adding that the country's first manned flight into space was also on cards by 2015. K. Radhakrishnan, member of the Space Commission and director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said plans were afoot to send a two-member crew into space and orbit around 200 km away from the earth by 2015.