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Radiation death exposes India's waste disposal failuresNew Delhi (AFP) May 11, 2010 The death from radiation poisoning of a scrapyard worker in New Delhi has highlighted the lax enforcement of waste disposal laws in India, leading to calls for urgent action. In early April, a machine from Delhi University containing cobalt-60, a radioactive metal used for radiotherapy in hospitals, ended up in a scrapyard in the city. Rajendra Yadav, a 35-year-old worker in the congested yard in Mayapuri, western New Delhi, died due to multiple organ failure on April 26. Seven others were hosp ... read more |
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Sitakundu, Bangladesh (AFP) May 2, 2010When huge waves hit Bangladesh's sleepy southeastern Sitakundu coastline after a cyclone in 1991, shopkeeper Abul Kalam survived by hanging on to a coconut tree. Kalam's parents, brother, sister and young nephew and niece were among the 138,000 people killed that May when a tidal surge from the force-five cyclone destroyed his family's house and the tiny fishing village they called home. ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) May 2, 2010At least 17 people were killed and scores injured by lightning as a series of minor tropical storms and heavy rains swept across Bangladesh, police said Sunday. Six people were killed in the northeastern district of Habiganj, 75 miles (120 kilometres) from capital Dhaka, and four more died in the southern district of Bagerhat after being struck by lightning during a tropical storm. "Most ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 03, 2010A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists near the Kerguelen plateau, in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, 4,200 kilometres south-west of Perth. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers described the current -more than three kilometres below the Ocean's surface - as an important ... more |
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India - C-17 GLOBEMASTER III AircraftWashington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2010 The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress on April 23 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to India of 10 Boeing C-17 GLOBEMASTER III aircraft and associated equipment, parts, and logistical support for an estimated cost of $5.8 billion. The Government of India (GOI) requests a possible sale of 10 Boeing C-17 GLOBEMASTER III aircraft, 45 F117-PW-100 engines (40 installed and 5 spare engines), 10 AN/ALE-47 Counter-Measures Dispensing Systems, 10 AN/AAR-47Missile Warning Systems, spar ... read more |
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