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Bangladesh has ordered free electricity for millions of farmers to pump underground water after a severe lack of monsoon rains threatened its main rice crop, an official said Saturday. Downpours normally lash Bangladesh from June to September and the impoverished South Asian country gets more than 75 percent of its annual rainfall during this period. But the country's weather department ... read more 
Paris (AFP) July 26, 2009Fast growing China and India may be important players but the emerging economic giants alone do not have the clout to drag the global economy out of its worst slump since the 1930s, analysts say. China, ranked the world's third largest economy after the United States and Japan, grew 7.9 percent in the second quarter this year while India expanded 5.8 percent in the three months to March. ... more
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Dhaka (AFP) July 23, 2009Bangladeshi 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 ... 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  
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 |
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New Delhi (UPI) Jul 21, 2009 If Pakistan can claim to have succeeded in convincing India to drop its key objection to resume bilateral peace dialogue stalled since last November's Mumbai terror carnage, the United States has been careful not to take any credit for it at least publicly for fear of offending India. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on her maiden visit to India since taking up her post, made it ... more  
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 |
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