India successfully test-fired its Astra missile - Hindustan Times
Astra missile test-fired on 2nd consecutive day
A day after a perfect developmental trial of "Astra", India on Saturday again successfully test-fired its indigenously developed beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile...
Astra test-fire successful - The New Indian Express
Astra test-fire successful
By Express News Service - BALASORE 22nd December 2012 12:21 PM
Beyond visual range air-to-air missile Astra was test-fired successfully from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the Odisha coast...
Prithvi-II not all that successful - The New Indian Express
Prithvi-II not all that successful
By Hemant Kumar Rout - BALASORE 21st December 2012 12:31 PM
The outcome of user trial of nuclear-capable ballistic missile Prithvi-II on Thursday may not be very encouraging for the DRDO and the...
DRDO readies for
DRDO readies for Astra test
By Express News Service - BALASORE 21st December 2012 12:30 PM
DRDO scientists are likely to carry out a series of trials of indigenously developed beyond visual range (BVR) air-to-air missile Astra from ground launcher at the Integrated...
Prithvi-II test Thursday - The New Indian Express
Prithvi-II test Thursday
By Hemant Kumar Rout - BALASORE 20th December 2012 12:27 PM
After the successful trial of Agni-I on 12-12-12, the Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Indian Army is preparing for another user trial of medium...
K-15 test this month - The New Indian Express
India has to wait for a couple of months more to witness the much-awaited first-ever sea trial of indigenously built nuclear powered submarine INS Arihant fitted with ballistic missile K-15.
Earlier scheduled to be test-fired from Arihant...
Asia Times Online :: The world won't wait for China to change
The world won't wait for China to change
By Francesco Sisci
BEIJING - Washington's aggressive pursuit of containment of China and Beijing's difficulty in launching major economic and political reforms will likely prove an...
IntelliBriefs: Alienation of the Baloch from Pakistan is complete
One of the biggest problems in Balochistan has been the conspiracy of silence regarding the in the much vaunted 'independent' media of Pakistan. Apart from extremely the sketchy reportage of the horrors being visited on the...
China
Head of state Hu Jintao
Head of government Wen Jiabao
Death penalty retentionist
Population 1,347.6 million
Life expectancy 73.5 years
Under-5 mortality 19.1 per 1,000
Fearful of a protest movement inspired by events in the Middle East...
China says no to foreign rights monitors for Tibet | Reuters
(Reuters) - China will not allow foreign observers into restive Tibet to probe human rights abuses, an official said on Friday, dismissing mounting international pressure for an independent investigation in the troubled...
Tibet self-immolations cloud EU-China summit | EurActiv
Human rights organisations have asked the EU's new Special Representative for Human Rights, Stavros Lambrinidis, to raise Tibet with Chinas prime minister on the margins of the next EU-China Summit, due to take place in Brussels on 20...
Whole world knows the truth. When China was condemned through the world after the war. it started the propaganda of saying that India is responsible for everything.
US official View
"even though China won a military victory it lost in terms of its international image. China's first nuclear...
We have nothing to fear. It was china which committed the blunder by attacking India in 1962 and there by achieving nothing on capturing Tawang, but create a militaristic enemy which is second to it in Asia.
India win men's world kabaddi final for the third consecutive time : Other Sports, News - India Today
For the third consecutive time, India won the men's final of the World Kabaddi Cup here Saturday by crushing arch-rivals Pakistan 59-22.
It was a one-sided match and Indian players dominated...