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Government Offers 100 Acres Of Land For ISROs' Space Institute
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Nov 22, 2007 Seeking to end the long-drawn row over the land for ISRO's Space Institute here, Kerala Government on Wednesday offered 100 acres of land free-of-cost close to the Ponmudi, a hill station in the district, to the space agency. Disclosing this during his weekly cabinet briefing, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan denied reports in a section of media that the proposed land at Thennur village was forest land. "There is no dispute over the land. It comes under the Revenue department and not at the disposal of the Forest department," the Chief Minister said when his attention was drawn to reports that Divisional Forest Officer in charge of the area had raised objections to the transfer of the land. To a question that if he thought that this decision would bring all the related controversy to an end, he said "there has never been any dispute between ISRO and the state government." He had a dig at the media saying "so long as you (journalists) are there, controversies will keep coming up." The earlier plan of ISRO to acquire an estate at Ponmudi to locate its Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology had run into trouble after it was found that the land under question was notified as Ecologically Fragile Land a few years back.
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NASA Selects Four Ames Projects To Advance Key Technologies
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2007Four projects that will advance key technologies to meet critical needs for NASA's mission will be led by Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The projects are part of NASA's Innovative Partnerships Program Seed Fund that addresses technology barriers with cost-shared, joint-development programs. The four Seed Fund projects at Ames are part of a total of 38 partnerships that span 30 states and include nine universities, 23 small to medium-sized businesses, 17 large corporations and participation by all 10 NASA field centers. |
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