New Delhi, Dec. 5: A senior adviser on foreign affairs to German Chancellor Angela Merkel has quoted India’s National Security Advisor, M. K. Narayanan, as saying that India has no intention of declaring war against Pakistan in the wake of last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai.

Metro Cash & Carry is planning to invest Rs 900 crore in retail market of Punjab. The German wholesale retailer would set up six distribution centers in the state initially and further expand its business to other major towns. The company is present in 29 countries of world having more than 600 centers.

Grafschaft, Germany  - The German military commissioned its first spy-in-the-sky satellite system on Thursday, enabling it to peek through clouds or the darkness of night at any spot on the planet.

The synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) system uses five satellites that bounce radar pulses off the earth. Sophisticated computers convert the returning signals into a picture of the ground that can resolve features just 50 centimetres in width.

Germany is to share the data with France, which operates Helios II military satellites that photograph the ground in the daytime.

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Berlin - Germany's key chemical industry said Thursday it was bracing itself for a slump in sales next year as global demand contracts in the wake of the world economic downturn.

The German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) said it expects 2009 sales to drop by 1.5 per cent in 2009 after rising by about 3 per cent this year.

"The mood in the German chemical industry has become less optimistic," the VCI said.

Dortmund, Germany - German prosecutors are studying war crimes allegations against an 89-year-old man alleged to have massacred an estimated 60 Jewish prisoners in Austria near the end of the Second World War, they said Thursday.

An Austrian university student interested in the March 29, 1945 atrocity knew the names of a trio of Waffen SS members said to have gunned down the group of Hungarian Jewish slave labourers.

The student located the 89-year-old by simply looking up his name in a German telephone directory. The student's professor, Walter Manoschek, then conducted a series of interviews with the man.