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  Mumbai (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 A new underground metro is expected to ease the burden on Mumbai's notoriously congested roads and railways, but not everybody in India's sprawling financial capital is happy about the multi-billion-dollar project. Announced in 2014 with much fanfare, the Metro 3 line has been hailed by backers as essential to help solve the city's traffic woes and finally provide a link to its airports. But campaigners are angry at the felling of thousands of trees, and say it could desecrate temples and lead t ... read more |
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Stressed-out Dhaka to get 'Anger Management Park'Dhaka (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 Bangladesh started work Sunday on an "anger management park" in the capital Dhaka which the mayor said would help the 15 million inhabitants cope with rising daily stress. ... more  
New hunt for flight MH370 gets under wayKuala Lumpur (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 A new hunt for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using high-tech underwater drones has started, officials said Tuesday, in the latest bid to solve one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. ... more  
Iran reviewing data recorder from sunken Sanchi oil tankerWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 A committee set up to examine what happened to the Sanchi oil tanker, an Iranian vessel that sank in mid-January, said Monday it's looking at black box data. ... more  
Plague outbreak in Madagascar revived dread of a killerAntananarivo (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 Most inhabitants of Madagascar thought the plague was a footnote of medical history until the disease dramatically returned last year, slaying more than 200 people. ... more |
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India seeks to reduce satellite launch costNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 24, 2018 The GSAT-11 to be launched by Arianespace may be India's last communication satellite to use foreign boosters as the country's space agency is set to launch its own rockets with double the payload c ... more  
Chinese officials staging 'takeover' of Tibetan Buddhist academy: HRWBeijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2018 Chinese authorities are staging a "takeover" of the world's largest institution for Tibetan Buddhist learning, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, the latest move to bring religion under strict Communist control. ... more 
ISRO hopes GSAT-11 is the last Indian satellite to be launched by a foreign space agencyNew Delhi (IANS) Jan 23, 2018 If things pan out as intended, the 5.7-tonne GSAT-11 will be most probably the last heavy Indian satellite to be launched by a foreign space agency, according to K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Spa ... more  
Exiled Maldives leader warns over China, radical IslamColombo (AFP) Jan 22, 2018 Exiled Maldives opposition leader Mohamed Nasheed accused China on Monday of seizing land in the politically-troubled Indian Ocean archipelago and undermining its sovereignty. ... more  
First ICEYE-X1 Radar Image from Space PublishedHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 ICEYE has published the first radar image obtained with the ICEYE-X1 SAR satellite. The image depicts Noatak National Preserve, Alaska, on Monday Jan. 15, at 21:47 UTC. ICEYE-X1 is the world's first ... more  
Mystery Solved for Mega-Avalanches in Tibet - and Perhaps on MarsTucson Az (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 An international scientific effort determined the cause of a highly unusual and deadly glacier avalanche in Tibet in 2016, a new Nature Geoscience paper says. In July 2016, a glacier in Tibet ... more 
World Bank signs $300m loan for Nepal quake reconstructionKathmandu (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 The World Bank on Sunday approved a $300 million loan for Nepal as the impoverished nation struggles to raise money to rebuild almost three years after an earthquake killed thousands and flattened homes. ... more |
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India to buy guns worth $553 mn for border troopsNew Delhi (AFP) Jan 16, 2018 India will buy more than 160,000 guns worth $553 million for troops on its disputed, high-altitude borders, the defence ministry said Tuesday. ... more  
Israel says India to restart talks on missile salesJerusalem (AFP) Jan 17, 2018 India is to restart talks with Israel over a cancelled deal to buy anti-tank missiles, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday. ... more 
Bangladesh blacklists Chinese firm over alleged bribeDhaka (AFP) Jan 17, 2018 Bangladesh has blacklisted a top Chinese construction firm for allegedly trying to bribe a senior government official and stopped its work in the country. ... more  |
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Renewables and cooling tech critical to water use in India's power sectorAbu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 A new policy brief co-authored by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) finds that increasing the share of renewables, in particular solar photovo ... more
India likely to revive mega missile deal with IsraelNew Delhi (AFP) Jan 12, 2018 The Indian army and the government are discussing ways to revive a $500 million order to buy Spike anti-tank guided missiles from Israel's state-owned defence contractor Rafael, military chief Bipin Rawat said Friday. ... more 
India launches country's 100th satellite and 30 microsatsNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 12, 2018 The PSLV-C40 is to place 31 satellites, three Indian and 28 foreign including those of the UK, US, France, Canada, Finland and the Republic of Korea. The success of the launch comes as a big relief ... more 
At least four dead in Indian chopper crash: navyNew Delhi (AFP) Jan 13, 2018 India's navy said four bodies had been recovered on Saturday after search teams located the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing earlier in the day. ... more  
Champagne box-sized satellite launched to probe distant planetParis (AFP) Jan 12, 2018 France launched a champagne box-sized mini satellite into Earth orbit on Friday to study a mysterious, juvenile planet system in our Milky Way galaxy, mission controllers said. ... more 
India vows to handle China's 'assertiveness'New Delhi (AFP) Jan 12, 2018 India will handle China's growing assertiveness and has stepped up patrols on their disputed border to head off more standoffs, the country's top army officer declared Friday. ... more |
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Soil freeze-thaw stimulates nitrous oxide emissions from alpine meadowsBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 The rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere lead to global warming, which is a major challenge for the sustainable development of human society. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with ... more 
India to launch 31 satellites on January 12Bengaluru, India (IANS) Jan 09, 2018 India will launch 31 satellites, including earth observation spacecraft Cartosat, on January 12 instead of its earlier tentative schedule on January 10, a space official said on Monday. "The r ... more  
Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar teamNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix ... more 
Former Chinese military chief of staff under investigationBeijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2018 A former chief of staff of China's military is under investigation on "suspicion of bribery", state media said Tuesday, as Xi Jinping's sweeping anti-graft crackdown claimed another top general. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2018 
President Donald Trump begins 2018 making good on his aggressive "America First" trade agenda, with China as a primary target.
As he prepares to mingle this week with global leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a traditional cheerleader of free trade, Trump has again ruffled feathers from Beijing to Berlin after imposing steep tariffs on imported washing machines and so ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2018 
A US government watchdog said Tuesday the Pentagon has barred it from disclosing how much of Afghanistan is under Taliban control - a significant break from past accountability that comes amid mounting security woes in the war-torn nation.
At issue are the number of Afghan districts, and the populations living in them, considered to be held or influenced by the Kabul government by insurgent ... more |
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 Laramie WY (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years.
The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.
Bryan Shuman, ... more |
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