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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 21, 2009 
A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 million years ago. Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University and a team of researchers took a close look at the massive Shiva basin, a submerged depression west of India that is ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2009China said Tuesday it was "firmly opposed" to a planned visit by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to Arunachal Pradesh, an Indian region at the centre of a border dispute with China. "China's position on so-called Arunachal Pradesh is consistent and clear and we firmly oppose the Dalai Lama's visit to the region," foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters. "China is ... more
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Beijing (AFP) Oct 20, 2009China vowed "all-out efforts" Tuesday to rescue a Chinese cargo ship hijacked in the Indian Ocean with 25 crew aboard, bringing to six the number of vessels currently in the hands of Somali pirates. This is the second time that a Chinese ship has been captured by marauding sea bandits in the area, after a fishing boat and its 24-member crew were held hostage for three months before being ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 20, 2009India's environment minister reiterated on Tuesday that New Delhi would not bow to international pressure to accept legally binding carbon emission cuts. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said in a statement that a leaked letter from him which appeared in Indian newspapers on Monday "suggested the possibility of some flexibility in India's stance." He said the media reports had only ... more  
Red Wing MN (SPX) Oct 21, 2009The Prairie Island Indian Community has called on President Barack Obama to follow the law and deliver on the federal government's decades-old mandate and promise to establish a permanent repository for the nation's commercial nuclear waste. The Tribe's urging comes after Congress approved the FY2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill which cuts funding for the proposed national nuclear ... more |
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Dhaka (AFP) Oct 18, 2009When a cyclone destroyed her home two years ago, Shahana Begum joined the swelling ranks of Bangladeshi "climate refugees" who, experts say, could one day overwhelm the capital Dhaka. Shahana's family, like more than half a million people in the impoverished nation, lost her shanty home and all her belongings when cyclone Sidr slammed into southern Bangladesh in November 2007, claiming more ... more  
Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 16, 2009Brazil topped an anti-hunger scorecard on Friday followed by China where 58 million people have more to eat but India earned low marks in a new ActionAid index. The study, released on World Food Day, scores the efforts by 50 governments to fight hunger, with calls for more action with more than one billion people in the world already going hungry. "Some of the poorest countries in the wo ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Oct 16, 2009Indian Space Research Organisation has reached an understanding with Arianespace under which the European space consortium would scout for small satellites in Europe to be launched by ISRO. ISRO is a long-time customer of the European aerospace giant, which has launched 12 Indian satellites from 1988 to 2007. Another heavy Indian satellite in the present series is expected to be launched ... more |
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