Washington, Oct 4 : The United States has offered India the sale of CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons (SFW) worth 375 million US dollars to help the Indian Air Force (IAF) develop and enhance standardisation and operational ability with the United States.
The proposed sale comes three weeks after US offered India a 170 million dollar deal that includes two dozen Harpoon air-to-ground anti-ship missiles.
New Delhi - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in New Delhi Saturday for talks with Indian officials days after a landmark civilian nuclear deal was approved by the Congress.
But it appeared clear that Rice and Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee would not be signing the 123 agreement that guides the deal due to administrative hitches.
Sydney - Australians welcomed Saturday the US Congressional approval of a financial services' industry bail-out package, but doubted it would end turbulence on world markets.
"This is a positive step forward in restoring stability to the global banking system," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said. "But there's still much, much more work to be done."
Opposition Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull said the fall on US stock markets after the bill went through was evidence the crisis was far from over.
New York, Oct. 4: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said that she disagreed with the McCain Campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.
In an interview with FOX News on Friday, Palin said that she and her husband Todd would "be happy" to campaign in the economically distraught battleground state.
Palin said the decision to pull out of Michigan, which was announced Thursday, was "not a surprise" to her since polls showed McCain slipping in the state.
Washington, Oct 4 : A team of University of Hawaii, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and MIT astronomers, using one of the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, has found evidence for cloudy weather on failed stars.
The star in question, 2M1404B, has a mass of about 3 percent of the mass of our sun and lives with its slightly more massive sibling, 2M1404A, 75 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus.
While 2M1404A is socked in by thick clouds, the cloud layer in 2M1404B seems to be breaking up into patches.
Washington, Oct 4 : By examining the expression of a particular gene in alligators, biologists have found that birds also have “thumbs”.
The research was conducted by Alexander Vargas and colleagues at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Bird wings only have three fingers, having evolved from remote ancestors that, like humans and most reptiles, had five fingers.
Biologists have typically used embryology to identify the evolutionary origin (homology) of structures. The three fingers of the bird wing develop from cartilage condensations that are found in the same positions in the embryo as fingers two, three and four of humans.
Washington, Oct 4 : The United States has offered India the sale of CBU-105 Sensor Fuzed Weapons (SFW) worth 375 million US dollars to help the Indian Air Force (IAF) develop and enhance standardisation and operational ability with the United States.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in New Delhi Saturday for talks with Indian officials days after a landmark civilian nuclear deal was approved by the Congress.
New York, Oct. 4: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has said that she disagreed with the McCain Campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.
Washington, Oct 4 : A team of University of Hawaii, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and MIT astronomers, using one of the Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, has found evidence for cloudy weather on failed stars.
