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A herd of elephants in India has forced 500 villagers to flee to relief camps after the wild animals killed at least seven people and trampled hundreds of homes, officials said Monday. Angry residents blockaded a major highway last week to demand action against the marauding elephants, which have been causing chaos for more than a month. The relief camps opened on Sunday near the village ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 7, 2009Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium. The strategy, spelt out in a government paper published last week, will see New Delhi reach out to Mongolia, Namibia and Kazakhstan besides traditional allies like Russia in its search for the ... more
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Nairobi (AFP) Sept 5, 2009Clean-up operations following the grounding of a Turkish-flagged vessel off the coast of Madagascar have started and damage to the environment should be limited, the ship's operator said in a statement received by AFP Saturday. The MV Gulser Ana grounded off Faux Cap, on the southernmost tip of the Indian Ocean island, on August 26, damaging its bunker tanks and releasing fuel oil in the ... more  
Delhi, India (PTI) Sep 04, 2009A Camera on board India's maiden unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 has recorded images of the landing site of US spacecraft Apollo 15, a scientist said today, rubbishing conspiracy theories that the fourth US mission to land on the moon four decades back was a hoax. The Terrain mapper camera (TMC) on board Chandrayaan-1, which had an abrupt end a few days back, has sent the prints of ... more  
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP) Sept 3, 2009Pakistan said on Thursday it was disturbed by reports that India might be considering additional nuclear tests after doubts were raised about the success of its 1998 tests. Indian nuclear scientist S. Santhanam, who was a director for 1998's test-site preparations, has claimed that the tests were only partially successful and the results were much weaker than claimed at the time. ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 02, 2009If it has already rained, it's going to continue to pour, according to a Purdue University study of how ocean-origin storms behave when they come ashore. More than 30 years of monsoon data from India showed that ground moisture where the storms make landfall is a major indicator of what the storm will do from there. If the ground is wet, the storm is likely to sustain, while dry conditions ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 1, 2009India has signed a pact with Namibia that could open the way to investment in the African country's uranium and diamond industries, a foreign ministry statement said Tuesday. Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba signed five accords with Indian premier Manmohan Singh after talks here, the statement said. The two sides "noted the many opportunities for investment available in Namibia in ... more  
Panaji, India (PTI) Sep 02, 2009ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair is all set to become the first non-American to head the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). The formal announcement was made by IAA secretary general J M Contant during an international conference on low cost planetary mission here. "Its a great honour. All these years Americans chaired the post, first time a non-American, that too an Indian, is ... more |
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