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Pakistan cotton crop failure hands opportunity to IndiaMumbai (AFP) Aug 25, 2010 Pakistan's devastating floods may have destroyed up to a fifth of the country's cotton crop, analysts say, handing an opportunity to exporters in neighbouring India who are eyeing the shortfall. Indian producers will seek to take advantage of a government decision last week to lift a ban on exports to help meet demand from Pakistan's textile industry. The restriction was imposed in April to keep domestic prices down. Armed with a bumper crop after a good monsoon, Indian groups are expected to be ... read more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 19, 2010Man's best friend might just be treated like any other animal depending on where the owners live. A study by David Blouin, assistant professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University South Bend, found that people who think of animals as children tend to have a city background. "To think of pets as just another animal is not uncommon in rural areas," Blouin sai ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2010India's cabinet was expected Friday to discuss changing a bill on its civilian nuclear power industry, to increase the liability of foreign-reactor suppliers in the case of an accident. The measure will help pave the way to putting into operation a landmark atomic pact with the United States signed in 2008 that ended India's nuclear isolation and reflected deepening ties between the world's ... more  
College Park MD (SPX) Aug 19, 2010In developing countries such as India, small hydroelectric power (SHP) projects represent a potentially large but largely untapped source of energy, primarily because the cost of constructing the sites is thought to be higher per kilowatt of generated power than the cost of large plants. But is it? To find out, Sunil Singal, Senior Scientific Officer at the Indian Institute of Technology i ... more |
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Russia passes on munitions pactMoscow (UPI) Aug 16, 2010 The International Convention on Cluster Munitions entered into force Aug. 1. Delegates from 107 nations agreed and signed the final draft of the treaty at the end of a 10-day meeting held in May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland. Both the United States and Russia opposed the treaty then and now. China, India, Pakistan and Israel also have declined to ratify the agreement. The convention requires signatory states to cease the production, stockpiling and use of cluster munitions and their export, ... read more |
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