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Health officials said Monday they had found cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu along the US border with Mexico, as India and South Africa announced their first deaths from the A(H1N1) virus. "We have found resistance to Tamiflu on the border. We have observed some cases, few to be sure, in El Paso and close to McAllen, Texas," said Maria Teresa Cerqueira, head of the Pan-American Health Or ... read more 
New Delhi (UPI) Aug 3, 2009 The draft of India's ambitious National Solar Mission plan, aimed at reducing emissions and easing the country's crippling power shortages, was endorsed in principle today by the prime minister's Council on Climate Change, Press Trust of India reports. India, the world's fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, would reduce its reliance on dirty coal under the plan. India's solar pow ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 1, 2009When Russia gave India a retired Soviet aircraft carrier five years ago, New Delhi was delighted - little realising the vessel would turn into a costly white elephant. Russia, India's longtime weapons supplier, said in 2004 it would give the country the 44,570-tonne "Admiral Gorshkov" as a gift, provided Delhi paid a Russian shipyard 974 million dollars to refurbish the carrier. Since ... more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 2, 2009A town in a Tibetan area in northwest China has been sealed off after two of its residents died from pneumonic plague, the local government and state media said Sunday. Ziketan town in Qinghai province was put under collective quarantine Saturday when laboratory tests showed it had been struck by the highly virulent disease, the Qinghai health bureau said in a statement. A 32-year-old he ... more
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 31, 2009 The euphoria over the launch of the first domestically built nuclear-powered submarine by India's navy has barely abated, but already that is getting clouded by the controversy over the navy's deal to acquire the Russian-built aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov. What is causing headache to the Congress Party-led coalition government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the recent release ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 28, 2009 At the beginning of 2009 Gen. David Petraeus, the new CENTCOM commander, assumed command of a huge theater that stretches from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, right up to the Indian border. The surge he crafted for Iraq appears to have delivered an almost clean slate to the Iraqi government with U.S. forces now bivouacked outside the ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 28, 2009 When the deputy chief of the Indian army recently promised the Indian public and private sectors a "level playing field" in purchases of military hardware he wasn't talking about electric golf carts to take elderly golfers around hilly golf courses. The carts, which cost about $243,000, were allegedly bought with money designated for electric wheelchairs in military hospitals and on ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) July 28, 2009Rickshaws 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 ... more |
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