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India's environment minister came under fire Tuesday from scientists for denying climate change was causing Himalayan glaciers to melt and disputing the work of the UN's top global warming body. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said Monday there was no "conclusive scientific evidence" linking global warming to the melting of the glaciers and questioned work by the Intergovernmental Panel ... read more 
Tawang, India (AFP) Nov 10, 2009The Dalai Lama on Tuesday held a second mass prayer meeting close to India's border with Tibet, as China took a fresh swipe at his week-long tour of the Arunachal Pradesh region. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader told tens of thousands of devotees gathered in Tawang that Tibetan Buddhism faced great difficulties but that their "religion and culture would survive the challenges." ... more
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Bhopal, India (AFP) Nov 10, 2009India will mark next month's 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, the world's worst industrial accident, by throwing open the site to visitors, an official said Tuesday. Tragedy struck on December 3-4, 1984 when a storage tank at a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide -- bought by US group Dow Chemicals in 1999 -- spewed cyanide gas into the air, instantly killing more than 3,500 people. ... more  
Tawang, India (AFP) Nov 9, 2009The Dalai Lama held a mass audience with tens of thousands of devotees Monday on a "non-political" visit to a region near India's border with Tibet that has drawn strong protests from China. More than 30,000 people, many of whom arrived days in advance, packed into an open-air polo ground near the remote Tawang monastery in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh to hear the exiled ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Nov 9, 2009Somali pirates have launched their deepest attack into the Indian Ocean, firing rocket propelled grenades at a Hong Kong-flagged oil tanker, the European Union anti-piracy mission said Monday. The tanker, the BW Lion, managed to escape the attackers and suffered no casualties during the incident Monday, some 400 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles and 1,000 nautical miles east of the ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2009China on Friday opened a two-day international conference on efforts to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden from Somali pirates, the defence ministry said. The meeting would be attended by representatives from "Russia, Japan, India, the European Union, and other countries' marine forces, including NATO," it said in a fax to AFP. "The main topic of discussion will be the implementation ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 7, 2009US auto giant General Motors is in advanced talks with its Chinese partners on a proposal to bring their vehicles to India, the Press Trust of India reported Saturday. GM began talks with its partners Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) and Wuling eight months ago to explore possibilities of bringing their light commercial vehicles to India. "Now we know what can work in India and ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Nov 5, 2009 The Indian army will take at least 124 of the controversial Indian-made Arjun tanks by April, according to media reports. But the army still doubts its performance as the country's proposed main battle tank to replace hundreds of Russian-made T-90 tanks. W. Selvamurthy, head of research and development at the Defense Research and Development Organization, made the announcement, s ... more |
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