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 Port Blair, India (AFP) Aug 11, 2009 
A huge 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck off the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, triggering panic as people fled their homes amid initial warnings of a possible tsunami. A tsunami alert issued for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh was later cancelled by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the US National Weather Service. "Sea level readings indicate that ... read more 
Kathmandu (AFP) Aug 10, 2009A flying frog, the world's smallest deer and the first new monkey to be found in over a century are among 350 new species discovered in the eastern Himalayas in the past decade, the WWF said Monday. But the environmental group said the vital habitats of the mountain range were facing growing pressures from unsustainable development in the region, which spans Nepal, China, India, Bhutan and M ... more
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Geneva (AFP) Aug 10, 2009China said Monday that it has released more than 1,200 detainees held over unrest in Tibet last year while more than 700 people are still being held following last month's riots in Xinjiang. "After the 1,231 suspects were punished, made to submit statements of repentance and educated by judicial authorities in Tibet, they were freed," Beijing said in a written reply to a UN hearing in Geneva ... more  
Mumbai (AFP) Aug 10, 2009The number of people to die from swine flu in India rose to six, health officials said Monday, as the government called for calm and people flocked to public hospitals for tests. The latest to die of the (A)H1N1 virus were an ayurvedic or traditional medicine practitioner in Pune, 120 kilometres (75 miles) from India's financial hub Mumbai, and a four-year-old boy in the southern city of Che ... more  
Kabul, Afghanistan (SPX) Aug 11, 2009Scientists are racing to arm Afghanistan against a new invader-a deadly, airborne wheat rust disease that threatens wheat production and food security in this war-torn nation and the region that stretches east across neighboring Pakistan and into India. Known as "Ug99", this deadly new virulent race of wheat stem rust has thus far been found in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan, and has ... more |
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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  
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 6, 2009These are tough times for India's flagship outsourcing industry whose skilled, low-cost workforce helped plant the country on the global business map. With the world in the grip of the worst economic slump since the 1930s, revenue growth from outsourcing -- subcontracting work to a third-party company -- is slowing sharply after years of posting scorching double-digit increases. ... more |
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