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| July 03, 2009 |  |
the democratic hyperpower |
 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2009 
From the streets of New York City to the rivers in India to the glaciers in South America, humans are warming the planet by emitting more and more greenhouse gasses. In a study published in Nature last year, scientists for the first time linked the effects of climate change specifically to human activity. "We're beginning to get the picture that climate change, influenced by humans, is ... read more 
Dhaka (AFP) July 2, 2009Police in southeastern Bangladesh arrested a man Thursday for beating an endangered Bengal tiger to death after it strayed into a village, a forest official said. The tiger had entered the village in Satkhira, which is close to the border with India, and residents beat it with sticks because they feared for their lives, the head official for the Sundarbans mangrove forest told AFP. ... more
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Tiruchirappalli, India (PTI) Jul 02, 2009The Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Astrophysics was developing a payload for Indian Space Research Organisation's proposed solar mission Aditya to study the Sun's outermost region corona, a scientist of the institute said on Monday. The payload would be included in Aditya, a mini satellite, being developed by ISRO to study emissions taking place in the Sun during solar maxim ... more  
New Delhi, India (XNA) Jul 02, 2009India will launch its indigenous Oceansat-2 satellite, along with six European nano satellites, next month, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Wednesday. "Oceansat-2, weighing around 970 kg, is an in-orbit replacement to Oceansat-1, which has completed 10 years of service. It will carry an Ocean Color Monitor and a Ku-band pencil beam Scatterometer. In addition, it will ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) June 30, 2009India's cramped, diesel-fired warships are cleaning up their act, or at least their air, by installing purifiers developed by the NASA space agency to clear the fetid, below-decks environment. Privately-owned Greatwhite Technologies said Tuesday it had already installed AiroCide purifiers in India's ageing aircraft carrier INS Viraat and a frigate, and was equipping three other warships. ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) July 1, 2009India's first regional unit for specialist anti-terror troops has opened in Mumbai, fulfilling a government pledge after criticisms of the military's slow response to last year's attacks on the city. The hub for some 250 National Security Guard (NSG) commandos, opened by Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday evening, is the first of four new centres across the country. The others in ... more |
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Bhubaneswar, India (AFP) June 25, 2009An acute heatwave roasting much of India has claimed at least 100 lives, with more deaths feared because the annual monsoon rains have yet to come, officials said Thursday. In the eastern state of Orissa, at least 58 people have died due to sunstroke since April, disaster management official Durgesh Nandini Sahoo told AFP in the state capital Bhubaneswar. Local newspapers have reported ... more  
Brussels (AFP) June 24, 2009Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade called on European nations on Wednesday to boost their aid to Africa, warning that countries there might turn to Brazil, China and India for economic help. "Africa wants to cooperate with Europe, but if Europe shuts itself off from Africa when we have India, China, Brazil coming to offer us the same things as Europe at lower prices and with extraordinary ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) June 24, 2009The creators of a new television soap opera in Bangladesh said Wednesday they were hoping it will teach farmers in one of the world's poorest nations new tricks to boost their income. The Dhaka branch of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has produced the eight-episode drama, which will air weekly until August on a private satellite channel. "It aims to help farmers to ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 22, 2009Access to green technology is becoming a growing stumbling block in global efforts to fight climate change, with US lawmakers bristling at what they see as China's attempt to "steal" US know-how. China and India have led calls for developed nations to share technology to help them battle global warming as the clock ticks to a December meeting in Copenhagen meant to seal a successor to the ... more |
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