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One dead in Mumbai water shortage protests: reportMumbai (AFP) Dec 3, 2009 One person died and many were injured in a violent protest Thursday against cuts in water supplies in India's financial capital following the worst monsoon rains since 1972, a report said. A crowd of about 3,000 people demonstrated outside municipal headquarters in Mumbai demanding an easing of the 30-percent cut in supplies for many parts of the city of 18 million people, the Press Trust of ... read more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 2, 2009The World Bank said Wednesday it would give India at least one billion dollars in assistance for cleaning up the heavily polluted Ganges, Hinduism's most sacred river. The clean-up involves building modern sewage treatment, revamping drains and other measures to improve the quality of the river, which has been badly polluted by industrial chemicals, farm pesticides and other sewage. ... more  
Bhopal, India (AFP) Dec 3, 2009Indian activists marked the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak disaster Thursday with protests and demands that those responsible for thousands of deaths finally be held to account. Demonstrators and survivors capped a week of commemorations with a planned march to the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, where on December 3, 1984 a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas killed up to 10,000 ... more 
Bhopal, India (UPI) Nov 23, 2009 A report issued in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India, chemical disaster says the area's drinking water remains toxic. The report, released Tuesday by the Bhopal Medical Appeal, says there are still high levels of toxic chemicals in the drinking water supply of 15 communities near the old Union Carbide pesticide plant where the catastrophe occurred. ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Dec 1, 2009Indian authorities on Tuesday blocked 25 million Chinese-made mobile phones that lack an identification number allowing calls to be traced, in the latest push to tighten telecom security. Officials at the telecom ministry said they had banned services to low-end Chinese phones without a 15-digit International Mobile Equipment Identification (IMEI) number. The government has also launched ... more  
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 01, 2009India's space agency has in its pipeline eight foreign satellites for launch and is scouting to acquire such spacecraft from abroad to expand capacity in the field of communication transponder back home. "Today, we have eight (foreign) satellites to be launched. This will be launched over the next two-three years", Managing Director of Antrix Corporation, marketing arm of Bangalore ... more  
Srinagar, India (AFP) Nov 30, 2009Work on a mountainous road in Indian-controlled Kashmir near the border with China has been stopped after objections from the Chinese army, an official and a report said Monday. "The road was being built for the locals following their persistent demands," a government official from Leh, the capital of the area of Ladakh where the road was being built, told AFP. The official, who asked ... more |
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