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South Asian ministers will gather in Nepal next week for talks on the threat that climate change poses to the Himalayas and to the 1.3 billion people dependent on water flowing from the mountains. Experts say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate and with months to go before a key summit in Copenhagen, mountain nations are hoping to highlight the myriad of problems facing ... read more
Bhattegaun, Nepal (AFP) Aug 28, 2009Three years ago Naina Shahi's husband left their small village in rural Nepal to seek work in neighbouring India, leaving her to bring up their three children alone. The dry winters and unpredictable monsoons Nepal has experienced in recent years had hit crop production on the couple's land plot in the foothills of the Himalayas, forcing them to look for other ways to feed their family. ... more
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 27, 2009India could record a 15 to 20 percent crop shortfall due to widespread drought caused by a bad monsoon, the finance minister said Thursday. Some 252 out of India's 626 districts have been hit by drought as a result of the weak June-to-September monsoon that is running at 26 percent below normal, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said. "For the impact of production on the kharif (summer) ... more  
Sydney (AFP) Aug 27, 2009Australia has admitted a huge new energy project to supply Asian markets could raise national greenhouse gas emissions by up to one percent if ambitious efforts to capture them fail. Environment Minister Peter Garrett made the comments just hours after approving the Gorgon field, which will provide China and India with tens of billions of dollars of liquefied natural gas. He said plans ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 29, 2009India has lost contact with its first mooncraft, an unmanned satellite launched amid much fanfare last October, the national space agency said Saturday. "The radio contact was lost at 1:30am IST (2000GMT Friday) by the Deep Space Network (DSN) at Byalalu, about 40 kilometres from Bangalore," the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement here. ... more |
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San Francisco (AFP) Aug 24, 2009Microsoft on Monday unveiled software that lets Twitter, Facebook and other hot Internet services be delivered to low-cost "feature phones" common in developing countries. The US technology giant will debut OneApp in South Africa and hopes to swiftly roll it out in India, China and other countries where millions of people use feature phones instead of powerful smartphones. "We designed ... more  
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 23, 2009Powerful earthquakes that have jolted Asia recently do not presage a disaster, although it is only a matter of time before the next catastrophe befalls the quake-prone region, seismologists say. From India to Japan, Indonesia and as far south as New Zealand, the region has been rattled by what appear to be a connected spate of strong quakes in the past few weeks. Luckily they have caused ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 21, 2009India will import lentils, edible oil and other staples to cope with any shortfalls caused by a widespread drought that has badly hurt crops, the finance minister said Friday. The statement by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee came as the country of nearly 1.2 billion people faces its weakest monsoon in at least seven years. "We shall go for imports" of "whichever commodity will be ... more |
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