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India: no electricity prompts fire ritualNew Delhi (UPI) Feb 15, 2009 Villagers of Kanugaon in northeast India marked 25 years without electricity Sunday with a mock Hindu fire ritual to call attention to their life in darkness. Utility poles to light up the village were delivered in 1985, yet the residents of Kanugaon in the Assam state still have no access to electricity, CNN reports. "All our petitions with the authorities have gone in vain," said Tankeswar Das, a member of the Committee to Mark the Silver Jubilee of Electricity Poles. According ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 11, 2010The White House Thursday said President Barack Obama would meet the Dalai Lama next week, sparking an immediate demand from Beijing for the withdrawal of the diplomatically explosive invitation. Obama's meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is sure to further strain increasingly testy US-China relations, as the president seeks to overcome Beijing's reluctance to place a choke hold ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 12, 2010Britain and India signed a deal on civil nuclear cooperation on Thursday, an official said, as New Delhi continues to build its atomic energy programme following the end of a nuclear trade embargo. The British High Commission told AFP High Commissioner Richard Stagg and Srikumar Banerjee, chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, "did sign the civil nuclear deal today" in the Indian capit ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Feb 11, 2009 Iraq, vowing to become OPEC's top oil producer, has offered to boost the sale of its crude to India by up to 60 percent in a bid to forge a strategic alliance with the Asian giant. But Baghdad's ambitious plan to supplant Saudi Arabia as OPEC's leading producer may well run afoul of the oil cartel, which is expected to seek to impose a production quota on Iraq as it drives to increase i ... more |
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After Haiti, Nepal braces for big quakeKathmandu (AFP) Feb 10, 2010 As Haiti counts the cost of last month's devastating earthquake, experts are warning of the potential for an even greater disaster in another of the world's poorest countries, Nepal. Geologists say it is only a matter of time before a major earthquake hits Nepal's densely populated capital Kathmandu, where 2.5 million people live in cramped, poorly-built housing with little or no awareness of the dangers. Nepal sits on the border between two huge plates that have moved together over millions of ... read more |
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