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| Monday, February 19, 2007 |
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 The blasts, which killed mostly Pakistanis returning home after visiting relatives in India, came just 24 hours before Pakistan's foreign minister was due in New Delhi for a fresh round of talks to resolve the status of Kashmir.
The attack, mounted using crude kerosene-based incendiary devices packed into suitcases, set off fires in two of the carriages shortly after midnight local time as the train reached Panipat, an industrial town 50 miles north of New Delhi.
The train link, known as the "Friendship Express", was re-started after a two-year hiatus in 2004 as a peace dividend, reuniting families divided by the Partition of India in 1947.
Indian police said that the death toll would have been considerably higher had two other explosive devices that were found on the train not failed to detonate. Some Stats: 1947: Partition of India and Pakistan.
1948: Ceasefire follows first Indo-Pakistan War. India retains two-thirds of Kashmir, Pakistan the rest.
1965: Second war.
1971: Third war, leading to birth of Bangladesh.
1989: Insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir.
1998: Both countries conduct nuclear tests.
1999: Border war in Kashmir. More than1,200 soldiers from both sides die.
2002: Islamists attack Indian parliament. New Delhi blames Pakistan and mobilises army. Shadow of nuclear war looms
2004: Peace process begins
2006: Mumbai train blasts kill 186. Talks suspended.
2007: Train bombing yesterday ahead of fourth round of peace talks today. |
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| Tuesday, February 13, 2007 |
| Sunita Williams faces Power shortage At Space |
Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams along with two other colleagues experienced a power outage aboard the International Space Station knocking out communications with Earth.
The glitch took place on Sunday but all systems were restored within a day, NASA officials at the Johnson Space Center here said.
On Sunday, a power channel in the station's Port 4 (P4) solar array electrical system shut down due to a glitch with an electrical distribution device known as a direct current switching unit, the officials said.
"The station's three crew members were not in any danger, but it did turn an off-duty day into a full work shift," the space agency said in a statement.
The power drop led to a temporary loss of ISS communications and the shutdown of heating units, some science equipment and one of three operating U.S. gyroscopes used for attitude control.
NASA officials said it took about 31 hours for flight controllers and the space station's Expedition 14 crew to restore ISS systems to normal.
"I wanted to congratulate you on a really well done job," Expedition 14 commander Michael Lopez-Alegria told flight controllers in a message re-broadcast on NASA TV after power was restored. "Hats off to you guys and thanks."
The ISS did fly in a two-gyroscope mode for attitude control, the minimum required to orient the station without consuming propellant for Russian thrusters, during the glitch. "One gyroscope that helps control the station's orientation went offline for a while but eventually came back up. Several heaters used for thermal balance of external station components were affected but have since resumed normal operations," the officials said.
Expedition 14 continues preparations for a February 22 spacewalk. Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin will don Russian Orlan space suits.
Among other activities, they will ready a Progress 23 cargo capsule for undocking. The Progress 23 antenna didn't properly retract when it docked in Oct. 2006.
NASA engineers are still pondering over the source of a day-long power loss aboard the ISS that resulted in shut down of the science and communications equipment.
source: Hindu.com |
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| Wednesday, February 7, 2007 |
| Huh...................Found my College? |
Hai Guyz,
This is special !
While surfing my eyes strucked on wikipideia maps.
Huh that is cool
I located my college within minutes.
RJIT, Tekanpur
http://wikimapia.org/country/India/Madhya_Pradesh/Tekanpur/
Guyz do visit it.
Maybe you also bump to anything usefull there.
You can also locate anything there or add your places. |
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