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India's prime minister promised Saturday that no citizen would go hungry as a result of scanty monsoon rains that have threatened the output of rice and other vital crops.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also promised strong action against "hoarders and black marketeers" after the weather office reported that monsoon rains for the past week were 64 percent below average.
The country of nea ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2009A dog is suspected to be the origin of an outbreak of pneumonic plague in northwest China that has killed three people and left 10,000 under strict quarantine, state media reported. Ziketan, a remote town in a Tibetan area of Qinghai province, has been locked down since Saturday in an effort to contain the spread of the highly virulent disease. One patient was in critical condition and e ... more
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Dhaka (AFP) Aug 9, 2009Bangladesh plans to educate snake charmers on how to help bite victims after a survey found 6,000 villagers die each year from snake attacks, officials said Sunday. The study by the government and the University of Newcastle in Australia found that the deaths were about one in 100 of those bitten. "Out of the total snakebite cases, at least 6,041 die every year as they don't get treatmen ... more  
Dehradun, India (AFP) Aug 9, 2009At least 45 people have been killed in a landslide that swamped three villages after heavy rain in India's northern Uttarakhand state, an official said Sunday. The landslide swept down a steep slope in Pithoragarh district, 500 kilometres (300 miles) from the capital New Delhi, in the early hours of Saturday. "We can confirm 45 deaths," senior administration official N.S. Negi told AFP b ... more  
Wakarusa, Indiana (AFP) Aug 4, 2009President Barack Obama Wednesday unveiled a 2.4-billion-dollar funding boost for the development of new generation electric vehicles and slammed critics of his economic rescue plans. The president traveled to a jobs crisis blackspot in the economically-struggling midwestern state of Indiana to announce a plan he said would create tens of thousands of new jobs. "For far too long we've ... 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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