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 London (AFP) July 13, 2009 
Two maverick filmmakers will hand out toxic bottled water from Bhopal, the site of a major industrial disaster in India, in London Monday to highlight the plight of locals and promote their new movie. The Yes Men, whose new film "The Yes Men Fix The World" premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival in the United States, will also take some of the water to the headquarters of Dow ... read more 
Mumbai (AFP) July 10, 2009The civic authorities in India's financial capital Mumbai are considering cloud seeding amid growing water shortages caused by a lack of consistent monsoon rain, media here reported Friday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said it had consulted the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and a company that conducted a cloud seeding experiment in 1992 for the best time to carry out ... more
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Kathmandu (AFP) July 12, 2009India's water resources minister said here Sunday he was satisfied with flood defences along a river that breached its banks last August, displacing millions of people in Nepal and India. Hundreds of villages were flooded and millions of people lost their homes in southern Nepal and the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar when the Kosi river broke its banks last August. India's ... more  
L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 9, 2009The world's biggest economies agreed to fight protectionism and limit global warming Thursday as the major emerging powers confronted the Group of Eight rich nations at their Italian summit. Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico and South Africa joined an expanded G8 on its second day, determined that US President Barack Obama and his wealthy partners pay the lion's share of the bill for ... more  
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jul 8, 2009 Lashkar-e-Toiba, the Pakistan-based Islamist organization blamed for the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, appears to be challenging al-Qaida as the spearhead of the global jihad, thanks in large part to hefty funding from its networks in the Gulf. According to the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that monitors international terrorism, Indian intelligence investigation ... more 
Mumbai (AFP) July 8, 2009India's financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 percent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on Wednesday that left some streets and homes flooded. The civic authorities in Mumbai introduced the reduction on Tuesday as levels ran "precariously low" at the six lakes that supply the city's 18 million population with 3.3 billion litres ... more |
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Paris (UPI) Jul 6, 2009 This week's G8 summit looks like the last of its kind, as its role as a forum for world governance is overtaken by the newer G20 grouping, which claims greater legitimacy by including the main emerging economies like China, India and Brazil. Indeed, the second day of this year's G8 meeting in Italy, amid the symbolic but only half-repaired ruins of the earthquake that hit the small town ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jul 06, 2009India's indigenous Oceansat-2 satellite will be launched next month from Sriharikota spaceport on the east coast and will also carry with it a set of six nano satellites, all of European origin. Besides Rubin 9.1 and Rubin 9.2 nano satellites from Germany, the four cubesats lined up for the mission on board India's workhorse rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle are: Beesat, built by ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Jul 06, 2009India's second lunar mission Chandrayaan-II is likely to be launched by 2013, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair said Saturday. 'Chandrayaan-II should take place by 2013. Our first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-I, has given us a substantial understanding about entering the moon's orbit. But ensuring the safe landing of the rover on the lunar surface is still ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) July 5, 2009When forest officials in southeastern Bangladesh heard that two tigers had strayed out of the forest and into a remote village they knew they had to act quickly. Though villagers in the area were worried about their own lives, the authorities were racing to save the big cats after a wave of similar incidents in recent years have ended with the endangered animals being beaten to death. ... more |
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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans
More Nepalis drive electric, evading global fuel shocks
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