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 New Delhi (UPI) Nov 19, 2009 
Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday said his country would never agree to legally binding emissions and downplayed expectations for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, next month. "Internationally we reject legally binding emissions. We will never agree to that, and we are prepared to be alone in our stand, but domestically we have to be proactive in ... read more 
Mogadishu, Somalia (UPI) Nov 19, 2009 China has sent a new navy flotilla to join an international fleet in the Gulf of Aden combating increasingly bold Somali pirates who are pushing deeper into the Indian Ocean as merchant vessels start to fight back against them. One of the missions of the incoming flotilla, the fourth Beijing has rotated into the region since it joined the anti-piracy campaign in December, will be to ... more
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Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2009Emerging market economies China and India are poised to accelerate due to strong stimulus measures while Japan's recession has "bottomed out" and its economy will pick up, the OECD projected Thursday. The forecasts come as many developed nations, which are only slowly emerging from recession, are looking to China and India to act as engines of global growth. South Korea, meanwhile, is ... more  
Srinagar (AFP) Nov 18, 2009Wildlife experts in Indian-controlled Kashmir have fitted black bears with satellite-tracking collars to study their behaviour and help conserve the endangered animals, officials said Wednesday. "This is the first time in India that Himalayan black bears have been fitted with a GPS collar," wildlife warden Rashid Naqash told AFP, adding that there just 300 of the animals in the region. ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 18, 2009India on Wednesday tightened air quality rules and said it will enforce a single standard for industrial and residential pollution. The Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards rule would lead to the use of "clean fuel" to lower emissions, Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh said. The announcement came less than a month before the December 7-18 climate change summit in ... more |
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Srinagar, India (AFP) Nov 16, 2009India'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. ... 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 
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 |
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