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South Asia Floods Toll Passes 2000 Mark Patna, India (AFP) Aug 09, 2007 
The death toll from the worst monsoon floods to hit South Asia in decades passed 2,000 Thursday even as torrents of muddy water receded from millions of acres of farmland and rains shifted west. Thousands of villages remained under water and threatened by disease, while millions were still displaced, mainly in India and Bangladesh, where the severe floods also destroyed valuable crops.
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Barabih, India (AFP) Aug 09, 2007Thousands of villages in India's Bihar state have been flooded for the last two weeks, but one hamlet has been under at least a foot of water for the last 12 years. Since 1995, Barabih residents have either got used to living with floods, or left. In fact about 75 percent of the population has fled, leaving behind 1,400 hardy souls. "We have been campaigning for a almost decade for the aut ... more Indian PM's Communist Allies Reject Landmark US Nuke Deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Key communist allies of India's coalition government rejected a civilian nuclear deal with the United States on Tuesday, warning Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against pushing ahead. A group of communist parties that support the Congress party-led coalition asked Singh not to go ahead with the complex deal known as the 123 agreement because it requires several steps in tandem by both nations befo ... more ISRO To Build Nano-Satellite Platform, Eyes Overseas Business 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Aug 09, 2007India's space agency will next year launch a special platform to put into space miniature satellites catering to the needs of developing countries and the domestic scientific community, its chief said today. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is developing a 100-kg "satellite bus" as demand has picked up for launching nano-satellites, its Chairman G Madhavan Nair said. "We are trying ... more India Flood Survivors Struggle To Burn Or Bury Dead 
Darbhanga, India (AFP) Aug 08, 2007Sribhagwan Manjhi has taken to counting the dead bodies that float down the river since raging waters swollen by the monsoon swallowed his bamboo home in India's Bihar state. This week, he said he had counted 10 corpses. "Often I miss some," Manjhi admitted from his observation point in Begusarai district, one of the 19 of impoverished Bihar's 38 districts submerged by the worst flooding in 30 y ... more Proxy Aviation Completes Cooperative Flight Demonstration OF UAV For USAF 
Germantown MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2007Proxy Aviation System announced that it successfully completed a series of demonstrations of the cooperative flight capabilities of its SkyWatcher and SkyRaider unmanned aerial vehicles, managed by its SkyForce Distributed Management System. The U.S. Air Force contracted with Proxy to perform these tests under the operational control of the USAF UAV Battle Lab. The demonstration, called Cooperat ... more |
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Patna, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007The toll from severe floods across South Asia soared to nearly 1,900 Tuesday and although water levels in the region's swollen rivers started to recede, millions of people still faced hunger. Aid workers struggled to deliver supplies to some of the 28 million people displaced across India, Bangladesh and Nepal by the worst monsoon-triggered flooding in decades, with some areas unreachable due to ... more India To Set Up Largest Asian Telescope In Himalayas In 2012 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A vast telescope to be made by Russian and Belgian firms will be installed in India's Himalayas in 2012, the director of an Indian research institute said Monday. Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images," said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. An optical gla ... more Indigenous Cryogenic Stage Tested For Eight Minutes 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Aug 07, 2007The indigenously developed cryogenic stage, to be used as the upper stage of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV), was ground tested for a long duration of eight minutes today (August 4, 2007) at Liquid Propulsion test facility at Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu. All the parameters of the stage and the engine were normal. Earlier test was for a short duration of 50 seconds. Today's ... more South Asia Flood Victims Desperate For Food And Clean Water 
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 06, 2007Many of the millions of people forced from their homes by floods across South Asia were desperate for food and drinking water on Monday as aid workers and army battled to reach them. The flooding, described as the heaviest to hit the region in decades, has affected 31 million people and killed more than 1,600 others in India, Bangladesh and Nepal since monsoon rains began pouring down in June. I ... more |
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Washington DC (AFP) Aug 04, 2007The US Congress has to determine whether an operational agreement of a landmark US-India nuclear deal is legal, the head of an influential House of Representatives panel said Friday. The statement by Tom Lantos, the Democratic chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, came as two US arms experts warned that the civilian nuclear agreement was filled with "loopholes" that could be exploi ... more Indian State Plants 10 Million Trees In One Day 
Lucknow, India (AFP) Aug 07, 2007India's most populous state planted more than 10 million trees in a single day Tuesday as part of an environmental awareness drive, authorities said. Farmers and students were mobilised to plant the record number of trees across the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 160 million people. "In fact, we have overshot the target," said state forestry chief V.N. Garg in the capital Lucknow, addi ... more Beyond Mesopotamia: A Radical New View Of Human Civilization 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2007A radically expanded view of the origin of civilization, extending far beyond Mesopotamia, is reported by journalist Andrew Lawler in the 3 August issue of Science. Mesopotamia is widely believed to be the cradle of civilization, but a growing body of evidence suggests that in addition to Mesopotamia, many civilized urban areas existed at the same time - about 5,000 years ago - in an arc that ex ... more Feeling Stress, Then Try Breathing Says New Age Guru 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 03, 2007Dozens of people are crammed into a small room, lying on the floor and breathing in rhythm to the loud whooshing sounds coming from the mouth of India's leading New Age guru, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. The eager crowd is learning a stress-busting technique that the perpetually smiling Shankar -- dubbed by one Indian magazine as the "fastest-growing guru in the marketplace of happiness" -- says he dis ... more
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