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The Dalai Lama on Wednesday reached out to China, saluting a Beijing-based novelist who has defied China by seeking reconciliation with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. On a visit to Washington, the Dalai Lama presented an award to Wang Lixiong, who helped spearhead a petition by more than 300 prominent Chinese who last year questioned a crackdown on major protests in Tibet. China ... read more 
Burdipadu, India (AFP) Oct 7, 2009The death toll from the worst floods to hit southern India in decades passed 300, officials said Wednesday, as relief efforts struggled to help survivors. At least 1.5 million people have been displaced in the states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh after days of torrential rain. More than 200 people have been killed in Karnataka alone, said H.V. Parashwanath, secretary of ... more
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Delhi, India (SPX) Oct 08, 2009Part of India's growing power demands will soon be met with smart grid technologies that improve efficiency and reliability for businesses and consumers. North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) has announced it would become the first major utility in India to realize the performance advantages of an advanced outage management system (OMS). A joint venture between Tata Power, India's largest ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2009China on Tuesday announced its first swine flu death, saying a patient in its southwestern Tibet region had died from the disease and warning the threat from the disease could soon worsen. In response, the government had "urgently" sent 200,000 doses of influenza A(H1N1) vaccine to the region since Sunday's death in a bid to contain the virus, China's health ministry said in a statement on ... more 
Raichur, India (AFP) Oct 6, 2009Aid workers used helicopters and boats to try to reach survivors of massive floods in southern India that have killed at least 280 people, officials said Tuesday. Days of heavy rain and flash floods in the states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra have forced close to 1.5 million people to take refuge in relief camps. Authorities stopped evacuating residents and have instead ... more |
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Tamil Nadu, India (UPI) Sep 30, 2009 Geologists in Tamil Nadu, India, said a trove of dinosaur eggs was peeping out of the sand beds on grazing land in plain site as they walked by. The site is part of an area rich in ancient organisms dating back 140 million years, geologists told The Times of India. "We found clusters and clusters of spherical eggs of dinosaurs. And each cluster contained eight eggs," M.U. Ramkuma ... more  
Thiruvananthapuram, India (PTI) Oct 01, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair has said that the country was all set to launch a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) using an indigenously developed cryogenic engine. Talking to reporters here on Monday, Nair said, "I have to say that it is yet another historic event for ISRO. Till now we were using Russian built cryogenic stages. We had ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 30, 2009India has suffered its worst drought since 1972, the official weather office said on Wednesday, with rains 23 percent below average at the end of the country's four-month monsoon season. "India's 2009 monsoon rainfall has been the worst since 1972," a spokesperson for the Meteorological Department, P.K. Bandhopadhyay, told AFP. In 1972, monsoon rainfall was 24 percent below average, he ... more |
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