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Bangladesh made an international appeal Sunday for 1.15 billion dollars to help one million families affected by Cyclone Aila that hit the country and part of India in May. Food and Disaster Management Minister Abdur Razzak made the appeal at a meeting with envoys of foreign missions in Dhaka and donors such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. "The response was quite ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) July 19, 2009India stood firm Sunday with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over carbon emission cuts, but she insisted their differences could be bridged before a high-stakes climate change summit in December. Meeting Clinton in New Delhi, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh sharply criticised developed countries like the United States for pressuring developing nations to accept binding targets on ... more
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Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) July 16, 2009The prime ministers of India and Pakistan met on the sidelines of a summit in Egypt on Thursday, sparking hopes of a resumption of peace talks between the nuclear rivals. Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan and Manmohan Singh of India were holding talks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where more than 50 heads of state were meeting on the second day of the developing world's most ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) July 16, 2009Indian outsourcing firm Satyam Computer said Thursday it was on track to restate accounts going back seven years, after its founder-chairman had admitted to a massive corporate fraud in January. "We are likely to go back (in restating accounts) for at least 6-7 years. Work is in progress," company spokesman Sridhar Maturi told AFP by phone from the firm's headquarters in Hyderabad. ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 15, 2009The United States hoped Wednesday that India will soon announce the location of two sites for US firms to build multi-billion dollar nuclear power plants, in line with a landmark deal struck last year. The announcement could be made when US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Mumbai and New Delhi from Friday through Monday, according to Robert Blake, her pointman for relations with Ind ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) July 15, 2009Heavy monsoon rains have brought relief to India's financial and entertainment capital Mumbai, helping to ease a water shortage but causing flooding in many parts of the city and travel chaos. A lack of consistent rain since the start of the monsoon season in June left levels dangerously low at the lakes that supply the city with 3.3 billion litres (872 billion US gallons) a day and prompted ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) July 13, 2009India is set to begin sea trials of its first nuclear-powered submarine later this month, joining an elite club that includes neighbouring giant China, defence ministry officials said Monday. The Indian-developed submarine, which would provide the South Asian nation with an underwater ballistic missile launch capability, will begin trials in the Bay of Bengal, off the southern Indian city of ... more  
London (AFP) July 13, 2009Two 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 ... 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  
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 |
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Bangladesh's tigers stalk uncertain future in Sundarbans
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