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Indian man recalls leopard attack caught on cameraGuwahati, India (AFP) Jan 9, 2012 An Indian labourer who had his scalp ripped off by a rampaging leopard over the weekend has spoken of his horrific ordeal, saying he was trying to save the cat when it turned on him. Pintu Dey is recovering in hospital in India's northeastern state of Assam after being badly mauled outside his house in an attack captured in a series of startling and gruesome photographs. "My two children were inside the house and so I went to save them when I found some policemen aiming to shoot the leopard," De ... read more |
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  Kashmir leader opts to shiver with the masses The chief minister of Indian Kashmir has ordered power to be cut to VIPs in the region after blackouts left locals shivering amid snow storms and sub-zero temperatures, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Tibetan monk self-immolates in China: Xinhua A Tibetan monk died after self-immolating in China, state media said Monday, taking to 15 the number of people who have set themselves on fire in Tibetan areas in less than a year in apparent protest. ... more | .. |
  Suspected arson attacks in Chile as firemen buried The home of a Mapuche Indian leader in Chile was destroyed in a suspicious blaze Sunday in an area ravaged by forest fires, which officials say may have been caused by radical indigenous activists. ... more | .. |
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Heavy snow in Kashmir closes highway, strands travellers Heavy snowfall over the past two days has closed down Indian-administered Kashmir's main highway, stranding hundreds of travellers, officials said Sunday. ... more | .. |
Tibetan dies after setting himself on fire: Xinhua A Tibetan died after he and another man set themselves on fire in southwest China, state media said Sunday, taking the total number of such acts in the restive region to 14 in less than a year. ... more | .. |
  Reality Check for Indian Astronauts India's decision to stretch out its plans for an indigenous astronaut launch to 2020 or beyond will probably disappoint some. It's a long way in the future, but the decision is an unavoidable realit ... more | .. |
  India rejoins the nuclear submarine league India officially rejoined the nuclear submarine operators' club when the Russian manufacturers handed over to an Indian crew the Nerpa, in Russia's far east. ... more |
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  India clears $1.2 bn missile deal with European firm India has cleared a $1.2 billion deal to buy 500 air-to-air missiles from European firm MBDA as it undergoes a major programme to modernise its military, defence ministry officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Wild elephant kills three in Nepal A wild elephant rampaged through a village in southeastern Nepal on Thursday trampling three people to death, police said. ... more | .. |
  Bollywood looks east to tap Chinese market India's Bollywood film industry is eyeing its Asian rival China as a potential market, after a successful run of "3 Idiots", the coming-of-age comedy starring Aamir Khan. ... more | .. |
 India lags China in research, complains PM India's prime minister on Tuesday said the country was not spending enough on scientific research, meaning it lagged badly behind regional rival China. ... more |
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  China plans Tibetan plateau exploration China says it will send researchers to a large stretch of uninhabited land on the Tibetan plateau to study a range of issues in the so-called no man's land. ... more | .. |
 Indians caught in China trade row freed: India FM India's foreign minister said on Wednesday that two traders who claimed they were abused and detained during a business dispute in China had been freed and were travelling to Shanghai. ... more | .. |
 India army offers 'glacier toilet' in hi-tech sell-off Developed for troops serving on glaciers high in the Himalayas, the non-flushing "bio-digester" toilet made by India's top defence research body is now being offered to companies and poorer states. ... more | .. |
  Pakistan, India swap lists of nuclear sites Pakistan and India on Sunday exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an accord which prohibits both sides from attacking these locations, the foreign ministry in Islamabad said. ... more |
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Polar bears bulk up despite melting Norwegian Arctic: study
US finalizes rule for deep-sea mining beyond its waters
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  India repairs damage after cyclone kills 42 Relief operations were under way in south India on Sunday as residents struggled to repair damaged homes and property after a cyclone that claimed 42 lives. ... more | .. |
India urges traders not to do business in Chinese city The Indian embassy in Beijing on Tuesday urged its nationals not to do business in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu after reports that two Indians there were "mistreated" over allegedly unpaid bills. ... more | .. |
  Nigerians held in India over 'phishing' scam: police Six Nigerian nationals have been arrested in the Indian city of Mumbai on suspicion of defrauding hundreds of people through text message and spam email scams, police said. ... more | .. |
  1.4 million orders for world's cheapest tablet in India The world's cheapest tablet computer has clocked 1.4 million bookings since it was put up for sale online two weeks ago in India, a spokeswoman told AFP on Tuesday. ... more |
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  Bajaj launches India's latest ultra-low-cost car Bajaj Auto unveiled India's latest ultra-low-cost car on Tuesday, a 200cc four-seater that looks set to compete with the Tata Nano for the title of the world's cheapest auto. ... more | .. |
  India unveils statue of cosmonaut Gagarin A statue of the world's first cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was unveiled Friday in Mumbai on the grounds of the Nehru Science Center, center officials said. ... more | .. |
 42 people die in south India cyclone: report At least 42 people including a French national were killed when a cyclone hit southern India, reports said on Saturday as engineers rushed to restore power supplies knocked out by the gale. ... more | .. |
 Spammers propel India to junk-mail top spot India has emerged as the world's top source of junk mail as spammers make use of lax laws and absent enforcement to turn the country into a centre of unsolicited email. ... more |
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Britain's Starmer seeks to bolster China ties despite Trump warning
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 India's PM worried by budget deficit India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday in his New Year's message to the nation that controlling the government's budget deficit was a priority for 2012 to avert another crisis. ... more | .. |
 Indian army eating out-of-date food India's army is eating out-of-date food, the government's spending watchdog the Public Accounts Committee said. ... more | .. |
 Russia hands over Nerpa nuclear sub to India: report Russia has handed over the nuclear-powered attack submarine Nerpa to India following more than two years of delays, a senior naval official was quoted as saying Friday. ... more | .. |
Cyclone hits India's southern coast, kills 33 A severe cyclone packing winds of up to 140 kilometres (85 miles) an hour tore into India's southeastern coast on Friday, killing at least 16 people, a senior official said. ... more |
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 Chinese firms bag India copper mining contracts Three Chinese firms have bagged contracts worth nearly $105 million to help India's only copper miner Hindustan Copper Ltd meet a target of boosting its output four-fold, the company said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Russia, India to cooperate in production of satellite navigation equipment Russia and India intend to cooperate in the production of satellite navigation equipment and to provide services to civilian users of the Glonass system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian ... more | .. |
  India gets indigenous bomb disposal unit The Indian army's corps of engineers has taken delivery of the first six indigenously made, remotely operated vehicles designed for bomb disposal. ... more | .. |
  Electricity sparks new life into Indonesia's corals Cyanide fishing and rising water temperatures had decimated corals off Bali until a diver inspired by a German scientist's pioneering work on organic architecture helped develop a project now replicated worldwide. ... more |
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