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Male Elephants Get Photo IDs From Scientists Washington DC (SPX) Aug 20, 2007 
Asian elephants don't carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India's Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive of individual elephants, which can help save them as well. The researchers have developed a unique "photographic capture-recapture" survey method that identifies individu ... read more
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Rush Demand For Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held its seventh summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It clearly demonstrated the SCO's awareness that the time of closed blocs is over, and the 21st century is an era of cooperation. It also showed that the SCO is working hard to find its way in an avalanche of ideas about its development path and format. The SCO is a regional group ... more India Has Changed The World 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007On August 15, India will celebrate 60 years of independence. Today, we are looking at this event with different eyes. In retrospect, we can see that it has first changed Britain and then the rest of the world. This process is still going on. On August 15, 1947 when Lord Mountbatten was hauling down the British flag in Delhi, many understood the significance of what was happening with a country, ... more India Wants To Launch First Reusuable Space Launcher By 2010 
Bangalore (RIA Novosti) Aug 15, 2007India is planning to launch a reusable spacecraft for the first time in 2010 and to send a mission to Mars as early as 2012, a senior space official said Monday. India has been successfully developing its space program in recent years, regularly launching satellites using its own booster rockets. "Our target [for the first launch] is before 2010," the Press Trust of India news agency quoted ... more South Asia Floods Toll Passes 2000 Mark 
Patna, India (AFP) Aug 09, 2007The 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. The ... more Indian Village Under Water Since 1995 
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 |
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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 UN Warns Of Looming Health Crisis In South Asia Flooding 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 07, 2007Millions of people marrooned by severe floods in South Asia face a looming health crisis unless they receive clean water supplies within days, United Nations agencies said Tuesday. The UN children's fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organisation said that stagnant flood waters were breeding grounds for diarrhoeal and waterborne diseases, including cholera as well as insect-borne diseases such a ... more Rivers Recede But Millions Go Hungry In Flooded South Asia
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 Rain And Blocked Roads Hinder Nepal Flood Relief 
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 07, 2007More rain and blocked roads have delayed efforts to help 300,000 people in southern Nepal hit by major flooding, amid fears of a rise in water-borne illnesses, officials said Tuesday. "We are concerned about water-borne diseases like diarrhea, dysentery and typhoid," Arjun Bahadur Singh, Nepal's health ministry spokesman, told AFP. "There is no shortage of medicine. However, accessibility is a p ... more |
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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 India And Nepal Trade Blame For Worst Flooding In Decades
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 06, 2007India and Nepal blamed each other Monday for some of the worst flooding in South Asia in decades, which has affected 25 million people and left rescuers scrambling to help victims. Officials in Bihar, the Indian state worst affected by the inundation, said neighbouring Nepal had failed to build dams to control water surging down from the Himalayas. But Nepal hit back immediately, claiming that I ... more China And India Becoming Leaders In World Economic Growth 
Manila, Philippines (AFP) Aug 07, 2007China and India are the new engines of world economic growth, replacing the United States and other developed countries, International Monetary Fund managing director Rodrigo Rato said Tuesday. He said China overtook the United States this year to become the biggest contributor to world economic growth. "For the first time, the largest contribution to global growth will now be made by China," Ra ... more US Congress To Scrutinize Nuclear Pact With India 
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
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