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 Dhaka (AFP) July 28, 2009 
Rickshaws and cars ploughed through waist-high water in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on Tuesday as the city received its biggest rainfall in a single July day for 60 years. In the six hours after 01:00 am (1800 GMT Monday), 290 millimetres (11.42 inches) of rain fell, according to officials. "It's the highest single day of rain in July since 1949," said Dhaka meteorologist Ayesha ... read more 
Dhaka (AFP) July 27, 2009Bangladesh has planned a raft of projects costing 4.35 billion dollars to fight the effects of climate change on its impoverished millions, a minister said Monday. The country has been forecast to bear the brunt of climate change, and scientists say floods, droughts and cyclones have already increased. Environment minister Mustafizur Rahman told AFP his government was working on projects ... more
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Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 As the U.S. Navy warns of an expected surge in pirate attacks off Somalia as the monsoon season comes to an end, the European Union has unveiled plans to extend aerial surveillance by its naval task force 1,000 miles southward into the Indian Ocean. The EU anti-piracy force's commander, Rear Adm. Peter Hudson, said on July 23 that three aircraft currently based at Djibouti, a former ... more  
Srinagar, India (AFP) July 27, 2009Severe windstorms left a young woman dead, injured dozens and damaged around 1,300 houses in the northern parts of revolt-hit Indian-ruled Kashmir, officials said Monday. The windstorms that swept across northern districts of Handwara and Langate late Sunday also left thousands of homes without power, an official statement said. Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday visited the ... more  
Bangalore, India (IANS) Jul 27, 2009India will soon design and develop its heaviest communications satellite GSAT-11 to provide advanced telecom services from 2011-12, a senior official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said here Friday. At 4.5 tonnes, it will weigh more than twice as much as the biggest Indian satellite in orbit now. "Activities to design and develop GSAT-11 will start immediately, as the ... 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 |
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