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Wikimedia sees boost for languages online with India officeMumbai (AFP) Nov 1, 2010 The creation of Wikimedia's first overseas office outside the United States could lead to the increased use of Indian languages online, the company's co-founder said on Sunday. Jimmy Wales said Wikimedia, a non-profit organisation which owns the user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia, is currently looking for a location in India for its operation and could start within six months. He told an audience in the country's commercial capital, Mumbai, that he hoped the small team would lead to the creat ... read more |
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  Indian PM backs 'practical' solution to China border rows India and China would look for "practical, pragmatic" measures to end border disputes which took the two countries to war in 1962, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. ... more | .. |
  Teen Sailor Meets NASA Team That Helped Saved Her Life It has been almost six months since 16-year-old Abby Sunderland's 40-foot vessel, Wild Eyes, was damaged in a storm, leaving her stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean. But now, she finally got ... more | .. |
  Converting Acid Rain Chemicals Into Useful Products Power plants that burn fossil fuels remain the main source of electricity generation across the globe. Modern power plants have scrubbers to remove sulfur compounds from their flue gases, which has ... more | .. |
  US welcomes India's signing of nuclear convention The United States welcomed as a "positive" step Wednesday India's signing of an international convention governing liability in case of nuclear accidents. ... more | .. |
  Indian arms race offers prizes for presidential visits Arms-hungry India is expected to hand out a raft of military deals worth billions of dollars during an upcoming rush of presidential visits from the United States, France and Russia. ... more |
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Chicago (AFP) Oct 26, 2010Dangerous winds grounded hundreds of flights at Chicago's O'Hare airport and interrupting shipping traffic on the Great Lakes Tuesday as a massive storm system whipped the central United States. The National Weather Service warned that severe thunderstorms would send damaging winds and tornadoes crashing over Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. "It's really blastin ... more  
Gothenburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 26, 2010The pre-Columbian Indian societies that once lived in the Amazon rainforests may have been much larger and more advanced than researchers previously realized. Together with Brazilian colleagues, archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have found the remains of approximately 90 settlements in an area South of the city of Santarem, in the Brazilian part of the Amazon. "The most surp ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Oct 22, 2010 Deaths from malaria in India may be as much as 10 times higher than official World Health Organization estimates, researchers say. A new survey suggests malaria kills between 125,000 and 277,000 people per year in India alone, far higher than the 16,000 toll WHO counts, NewScientist.com reports. Estimates of malaria deaths in India are based on death rates recorded in clinics, co ... more |
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India blocks massive expansion of Vedanta refineryNew Delhi (AFP) Oct 21, 2010 India on Thursday denied Vedanta Resources permission for a six-fold expansion of its aluminium refinery in Orissa state over environmental concerns, dealing a fresh blow to the British company. The latest setback comes as Vedanta battles to win Indian government approval of its planned 9.6-billion-dollar acquisition of a controlling stake in Cairn India, a unit of Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy. Two months ago the environment ministry also rejected Vedanta's plans to mine bauxite on land held sac ... read more |
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