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 Tokyo (AFP) Aug 11, 2009 
Powerful earthquakes just over 10 minutes apart rattled Japan and India on Tuesday, triggering panic on fears of a tsunami in the Andaman Islands and injuring more than 100 people southwest of Tokyo. The unrelated quakes struck in the early hours, shutting down Japanese bullet train services and a nuclear power plant and causing a landslide that closed a major highway near the Japanese ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 11, 2009The Indian government unveiled a major plan to protect its forests on Tuesday, saying the initiative was a key element in its strategy to combat climate change. "Countries like India must get adequate credit for increasing its forest cover that absorbs greenhouse gases," said Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who is under pressure ahead of global climate change talks in December. ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 11, 2009India's finance minister said on Tuesday that weak monsoon rains this year would mean that the sowing of summer crops would fall by 20 percent. However Pranab Mukherjee sought to avert fears that the sharp drop would cause food shortages, saying the country had coped with far worse droughts. The monsoon, which sweeps across the subcontinent from June to September, is expected to be 87 ... more  
Port Blair, India (AFP) Aug 11, 2009A 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 ... 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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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 8, 2009 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 ... 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 
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 |
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