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Army warms up to Akash missile
India’s long-criticised Akash anti-aircraft missile is now blazing towards success. Its counterparts in the DRDO’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme, the Prithvi and Agni ballistic missiles, were on target from the start; the anti-tank Nag missile will also enter service shortly; the Trishul short-range anti-aircraft missile was abandoned unceremoniously. Now, after years of rejection from the military, the Akash is being accepted as a world-class missile.

Centre bans mining at six mines in AP
The Centre has suspended forest clearances of some firms, including that of the Obulapuram Mining Company owned by Karnataka minister G Janardhana Reddy, for allegedly carrying out "illegal" mining in six mines in Andhra Pradesh.

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State's cotton crop likely to rise 15%
Despite recent floods in northern districts and subsequent damage to the standing crops, Karnataka, the sixth largest producer of cotton in the country, is likely to increase its cotton output this year by around 15 per cent to a little over one million bales (1 bale = 170 kgs). The state, which produced 900,000 bales of cotton from 390,000 hectares in 2008-09, had earlier set a target of 25 per cent growth in cotton output and 21 per cent increase in area under cultivation at 490,000 hectares.
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MNP to be delayed; DoT calls meeting tomorrow

Mobile telephone subscribers would have to wait a little longer to change their service provider without changing their numbers. The introduction of mobile number portability (MNP) across the country would be delayed by about two to three months, as some of the operators are not ready, said a senior official of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). - 3G auction shortly: PM - Call transfer: Users set to port number for new experience - MNP to hit big firms: Analysts - MNP likely to be delayed - "Will number portability hit old telcos?" - Cell users can change telcos for Rs 19 only We have had discussions with some of the operators, including BSNL and MTNL, which suggests we would miss the December deadline, he said. In a related development, the department of telecommunications (DoT) has convened a meeting of all telecom service providers, Syniverse Technologies and MNP Interconnection Telecom Solution India on Thursday to review the subject. Syniverse and MNP Interconnection are the two MNP operators selected to implement the service in India. At the Thursday meeting, all service providers and the MNP operators to give an update on their readiness for providing MNP. MNP service was to be introduced by December 31 in the metros and by March 2010 in the rest of the country. Mobile subscribers need to pay a maximum of just Rs 19 for availing the service. The process is to take four days. MNP is expected to help expand competition between the service providers, besides acting as a catalyst to improve their quality of service. Industry sources said, a fourth of mobile users would like to shift to a new service provider.


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