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Copenhagen hosts alternative climate summitCopenhagen (AFP) Dec 9, 2009 Amazon Indians, Malawi farmers, Tibetan monks and Inuits from Greenland exchanged ideas Wednesday on how to combat global warming at a boisterous alternative forum in Copenhagen on the sidelines of UN climate talks. "Only pressure from civil society can save the planet," insisted Elis Ngacimek, a 30-year-old American from Kodiak Island, Alaska, where the effects of global warming are being ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Dec 7, 2009India and Russia signed deals on nuclear energy and arms sales on Monday as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "We welcome Russia's participation in the broadening of our nuclear energy programme," Singh told reporters after the talks, according to remarks translated into Russian. "The successful end of the negotiations ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 7, 2009India's environment minister came under fire in parliament on Monday for his pledge last week that the country would reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels. Jairam Ramesh's announcement came ahead of the start of talks in Copenhagen on a new global climate treaty and reportedly upset many of the Indian negotiators. "It is bad strategy on the ... more  
Chennai, India (PTI) Dec 07, 2009India's heaviest rocket - the 49-metre tall, 414-tonne Geosynchronous Launch Vehicle (GSLV), powered by the indigenous cryogenic engine, will be launched in January 2010, making it a member of the select club of countries possessing this technology. Officials of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) say the space agency will start the new year in style, launching the GSLV-D3 carrying ... more |
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Kathmandu (AFP) Dec 6, 2009More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent. Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre (1,500-mile) range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 ... more 
Port-Louis (AFP) Dec 5, 2009Mauritius has officially asked London to freeze a project to turn the Chagos archipelago, also known as the British Indian Ocean Territory, into a marine reserve, the premier said Saturday. Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Chandra Ramgoolam told reporters here upon his return from the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago that he voiced his reservations unequivocally. Between 1967 and ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2009General Motors and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp will expand their China partnership overseas starting with plans to tap India's burgeoning car market in a move analysts hailed as good for both sides. The two companies, which dominate China, said Friday they had set up a 50-50 joint venture aimed at expanding in emerging Asian markets with an initial focus on selling small cars and mini ... more |
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