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 Srinagar, India (AFP) Nov 16, 2009 
India's army has rescued nearly 300 Kashmiris stranded for days in sub-zero temperatures on a Himalayan highway blocked by heavy snow, the military said Monday. The 435-kilometre (297-mile) highway winding through the foothills of the Himalayas was cut off last week when heavy snow blocked the route connecting the state summer capital of Srinagar with the Buddhist-dominated town of Leh. ... read more 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 16, 2009India's 1.16 billion people are each to receive their own identity number under a monumental plan designed to cut corruption and improve distribution of state benefits. The project -- modelled on social security numbers in the United States -- will compile an Internet database of the personal details, fingerprints and photograph of every Indian across the vast and chaotic country. ... more
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Paris (AFP) Nov 15, 2009Researchers have pinpointed the source of what is probably the worst mass poisoning in history, according to a study published Sunday. For nearly three decades scientists have struggled to figure out exactly how arsenic was getting into the drinking water of millions of people in rural Bangladesh. The culprit, says the new study, are tens of thousands of man-made ponds excavated to ... more 
Bhopal, India (AFP) Nov 11, 2009Survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster in India's Bhopal city are outraged by plans to throw open the site to visitors 25 years after the tragedy that killed thousands. Announced this week by state authorities, the sealed pesticide plant that leaked deadly methyl isocyanate gas on December 3, 1984 is to be opened to the public for a week next month to coincide with the 25th ... more  
Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2009The number of foreigners enrolled at US universities shot to a record high in the last academic year fueled by an influx of Chinese students, an educators' group said Monday. India remained the top source of foreign students in the United States but their numbers appeared to be leveling off, with strong new growth coming from China as well as Vietnam and several other emerging economies. ... more |
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Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Nov 10, 2009 India's military chief of staff, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, has been visiting Israel to cement his country's defense ties with the Jewish state amid reports that New Delhi plans to proceed with a controversial $1.1 billion deal for the Barak-8 tactical air-defense system. That's one of several major defense contracts Israel has concluded with India in recent years, consolidating a strategic ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 10, 2009India'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 ... 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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