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Bangladeshi conservationists said Thursday the discovery of a rare leopard captured by villagers in the southeast of the country renewed hopes for the survival of the critically endangered species. Professor Anwarul Islam, chief executive of Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh, said the three-month-old clouded leopard cub had been released back into the wild. It had been caged by villagers in ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2009Four people were killed and 53 remained missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in a remote and mountainous area of southwest China on Thursday, the government said. The victims were construction labourers who had been working on a dam in Kangding county, an area traditionally populated by ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan province, according to a statement on the civil affairs ministry's ... more
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Kathmandu (AFP) July 23, 2009A remote region of Nepal is hoping to improve local sanitation by asking everyone who applies for a citizenship card or passport whether they have a toilet at home, an official said Thursday. Authorities in the rural midwestern district of Surkhet say only one in three households there has a toilet, below the national average of 45 percent, while the district headquarters has only one public ... more  
Johannesburg (AFP) July 23, 2009A 13,700-kilometre (8,500-mile) undersea fibre-optic cable to provide high-speed Internet access on Africa's Indian Ocean coast went live on Thursday, its operator said. "Today is a historic day for Africa and marks the dawn of a new era for communications between the continent and the rest of the world," chief executive of SEA Cable System, Brian Herlihy, said in a statement. ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jul 21, 2009 Raytheon Co., the defense and aerospace systems supplier based in Waltham, Mass., will supply India a GPS-aided air navigation system with a footprint extending beyond the subcontinent to Southeast Asia. Raytheon said it won an $82 million contract for installing the system by 2013. The contract was awarded by the Indian Space Research Organization. Raytheon will build the ground ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 22, 2009One of the biggest glaciers in the southern hemisphere shrivelled by a fifth in 40 years, French scientists said on Wednesday. The Cook glacier on Kerguelen, an island in France's southern Indian Ocean territories, covered 501 square kilometres (193 square miles) in 1963. Combining satellite images with other data, glaciologists from the Laboratory for Studying Geophysics and Space Ocean ... more |
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Dhaka (AFP) July 21, 2009A delay to Bangladesh's monsoon season is posing a severe risk of drought in the impoverished nation and threatening food supplies, officials warned Tuesday. Monsoon rains normally sweep Bangladesh from June to September and the South Asian country gets more than 75 percent of its annual rainfall during this period but a lack of rain is hampering crop potential. "For weeks there have ... more  
Kolkata, India (SPX) Jul 22, 2009Genetic research indicates that Australian Aborigines initially arrived via south Asia. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have found telltale mutations in modern-day Indian populations that are exclusively shared by Aborigines. Dr Raghavendra Rao worked with a team of researchers from the Anthropological Survey of India to sequence 966 complete ... more 
New Delhi, India (PTI) Jul 21, 2009India may have to abandon its Moon mission midway, launched in October with a two-year shelf life, as its indigenous first lunar craft Chandrayaan-I lost a vital sensor which could lead to a premature end, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Friday. "Unfortunately, during the last month we have lost a vital sensor - the star sensor. Like in the olden days when one used to ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) July 20, 2009US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped to seal a defence pact boosting US arms sales to India in talks here Monday that should also see agreement on the siting of two US nuclear reactors. On the business end of her five-day visit to India, Clinton was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna for talks aimed at deepening strategic US ties ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) July 21, 2009The United States struck deals here Monday to pave the way for billions of dollars in exports of civilian nuclear reactors and military hardware to India, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. At a news conference with her Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna, Clinton also pledged to deepen US efforts with India to fight global climate change, check the cross-border spread of nuclear weapon ... more |
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