May 11th, 2008 - 9:41 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) A brief morning shower and a largely overcast sky set a perfect Sunday mood for Delhiites as the mercury kept unusually low for this time of the season, and people in the north-eastern and southern India braced for more rains. The weather in the north-west ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 9:40 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 11 (DPA) At least 19 people were killed Saturday and many injured as tornadoes ploughed across the mid-west and south-east of the US, reports said Sunday. The numbers injured and the extent of the damage to property and infrastructure was still unclear, according to reports from US broadcaster ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 8:08 pm ICT by admin
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Shimla, May 11 (IANS) Thunder showers along with hail struck Shimla and other resort towns of Himachal Pradesh Sunday, sharply bringing down the mercury. The minimum temperature here fell to 9.5 degrees Celsius while the maximum temperature stood at 19.9 degrees Celsius Sunday. On Saturday, the minimum temperature was 14.5 ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 6:38 pm ICT by admin
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Hong Kong, May 11 (DPA) The sighting of two rarely seen tropical birds in Hong Kong could be due to climate change, bird experts here have said. The birds - a great frigate and the white-tailed tropic-bird - were both spotted around Po Toi, Hong Kong's southern most island, over ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 6:26 pm ICT by admin
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Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu), May 11 (IANS) Even as deliberations to finalise the draft of a coastal zone management (CZM) are underway, one of its vital issues - seafront erosion - has hit this quiet town, officials said Sunday. Badly mauled by the 2004 Asian tsunami, Cuddalore's 57 km-long beach, second ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 11 (IANS) Residents of Delhi got a respite from the scorching sun as rains in the capital brought down the mercury Sunday. Pleasant weather is expected to continue till Monday.
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May 11th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by admin
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Chengdu (China), May 11 (Xinhua) A Japanese non-government foundation has resumed funding for bamboo plantation in China's southwestern province of Sichuan as part of an effort to protect the Giant pandas. Bamboo is an important food for these animals. After a two-year suspension, the Japan-Sino Green Exchange Foundation has donated ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 1:57 pm ICT by admin
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By Papri Sri Raman
Chennai, May 11 (IANS) With the government saying its new coastal zone management (CZM) rules will come into effect at June-end, about two million people living in India's 3,200-odd coastal villages and hundreds of towns fear for their livelihood. These are the people who harvest almost two ...
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May 10th, 2008 - 9:12 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) People Saturday heaved a sigh of relief from the sizzling sun as thunderstorms and an overcast sky in most parts of the country have brought the temperatures down. In northwest and central India, the mercury remained below normal due to the sporadic duststorms and thunderstorms.
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May 10th, 2008 - 3:42 pm ICT by admin
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By Aroonim Bhuyan
Muscat, May 10 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and green activist Maneka Gandhi has been conferred the A.S.G. Jayakar Award for creating awareness about animal rights, deforestation, climate change and river pollution. India's ambassador to Oman Anil Wadhwa presented the award at a function here Friday ...
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May 10th, 2008 - 3:24 pm ICT by admin
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Sydney, May 10 (DPA) A 37-year-old swimmer lost "great big chunks" of his leg when he was attacked Saturday by a four-metre shark at a popular beach on Australia's west coast. Police said the man was just 80 metres off Albany beach and amongst dozens of other swimmers. He is ...
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May 10th, 2008 - 12:49 am ICT by admin
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Bahraich (Uttar Pradesh), May 9 (IANS) A female leopard was caught and caged in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich district Friday after it attacked and injured three people. It took over 10 hours for forest officials to trap the animal.
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May 10th, 2008 - 12:09 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The weather gods seem to have fell in love with the national capital. For the fourth straight day, the mercury remained below the season's normal, allowing the residents to heave a sigh of relief from the scorching summer sun. The maximum temperature in Delhi Friday ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 6:49 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) India will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Denmark for co-operation in the field of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions. A cabinet meeting here Friday, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, cleared the proposal, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 11:59 am ICT by admin
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1.5 million people 'severely affected' by Myanmar cyclone: UN
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New York, May 9 (RIA Novosti) Some 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar last weekend, a UN official has said. Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last Saturday, devastating large parts of the country. The toll, ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 11:07 am ICT by admin
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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) The water crisis in the Indian capital is set to take a turn for the worse in the long term, leading perhaps to more water-related conflicts. In 2021, the city will face a deficit of over 1,000 million litres per day (MLD) ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 7:33 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) The reprieve from scorching summer continued Thursday in Delhi and most of the north Indian states, as the maximum temperature remained two to three degrees Celsius below the normal. As mercury further went down in Delhi to 37 degrees Celsius from Wednesday's high of 39 ...
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May 9th, 2008 - 7:32 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 8 (IANS) Three tigers that are to be relocated from the Ranthambore national park to Sariska tiger reserve should be shifted in a helicopter, officials have suggested to the Rajasthan government. This will save the tedious four-hour road journey of some 240 km between the two sanctuaries ...
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May 8th, 2008 - 9:55 pm ICT by admin
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Lucknow, May 8 (IANS) A man-eater leopard that killed five adults and two children in eastern Uttar Pradesh
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May 8th, 2008 - 9:54 pm ICT by admin
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Lucknow, MAY 8 (IANS) The autopsy report on the dolphin, found dead in Indira Canal in Uttar Pradesh Wednesday, confirmed the mammal died of water shortage that led to low oxygen level in its blood, an official said. The autopsy report came Thursday. "The dolphin had a cardiac arrest because ...
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May 8th, 2008 - 8:38 pm ICT by admin
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Malappuram, May 8 (IANS) A man was injured after a wild elephant attacked him in Kerala Thursday morning. Forest officials identified the victim as Muhammed, reportedly a worker of a farm owned by the Plantation Corp of Kerala at Munderi, around 40 km from here.
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May 8th, 2008 - 8:38 pm ICT by admin
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Gurgaon, May 8 (IANS) Actress Soha Ali Khan was Thursday held guilty of suppressing facts while seeking renewal of her gun license, and also of allowing misuse of her weapon by her father, former cricketer Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, allegedly in killing a blackbuck. District Magistrate Rakesh Gupta cancelled her ...
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May 8th, 2008 - 11:22 am ICT by admin
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Manila, May 8 (DPA) Animal protection activists Thursday urged Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to adopt and publicly advocate a vegetarian diet as part of efforts to ease a food supply crunch and sky-rocketing prices. In an open letter to Arroyo, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ...
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May 8th, 2008 - 12:06 am ICT by admin
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Lucknow, May 7 (IANS) A male Gangetic dolphin was found dead in the Indira Canal here Wednesday, officials said. "Although we have sent the dolphin for a post-mortem examination, the death appears to be natural. It probably died due to scarcity of water in the canal," said M.P. Singh, Awadh ...
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May 7th, 2008 - 11:23 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) It was yet another pleasant day Wednesday in Delhi, as well as in the northwest and central India as an overcast sky hid the harsh summer sun for most of the day, sheltering the people from the season's sweltering heat. For the people in the ...
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May 7th, 2008 - 5:51 pm ICT by admin
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New York, May 7 (IANS) A lack of investment in agriculture over a long period and the use of precious natural resources for biofuel production have contributed to the current global food crisis, according to United Nations development experts. Kathleen Abdalla of the UN's Department of Economic and Social Affairs ...
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May 7th, 2008 - 12:43 pm ICT by admin
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By Joydeep Gupta
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) Over 100,000 people in Karnataka's villages have benefited in the last five years after banks started providing loans for solar lighting at low interest rates, a UNEP official has said. In 2003, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) persuaded Canara Bank, Syndicate Bank and ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 10:40 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) People in the northwest and Rajasthan heaved a sigh of relief from the scorching heat for the second consecutive day Tuesday as thundershowers accompanied with squalls kept the temperatures down in most places across the northern plains. For the people in the National Capital Region, ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 8:20 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The fight against climate change should not become the new NPT, the prime minister's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran said here Tuesday. Drawing a parallel between global negotiations to tackle climate change and the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT) that divided the world into ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 8:20 pm ICT by admin
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Mumbai, May 6 (IANS) After playing the simple, golden-hearted Munnabhai, Bollywood top star Sanjay Dutt is set to metamorphose into a cold, calculating serial killer - a la Charles Shobhraj in a film called "Charles and I". Made by People Pictures, the racy thriller will be helmed by ace director ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 8:19 pm ICT by admin
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By Joydeep Gupta
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) The Ranthambhore national park in Rajasthan, one of India's oldest and best-known, now has over 40 tigers. This is good news in a country where only an estimated 1,411 are left in the wild. But experts are divided on whether the forest can ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 5:54 pm ICT by admin
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Shimla, May 6 (IANS) A young couple were killed when lightning struck them at a remote mountainous village in Himachal Pradesh, police said Tuesday. The two, identified as Jagdish and Kubja, were returning from a fair near Kelvi village in Chopal, some 140 km from here, when the incident took ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 5:54 pm ICT by admin
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Ahmedabad, May 6 (IANS) Mahalaxmi Rubtech Limited, a group based here and engaged in the manufacture and export of textiles, rubber and chemical products, has had its clean development mechanism (CDM) project to use waste wood and sawdust in five of its boilers approved by the United Nations Framework Convention ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 12:54 am ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A cloudy sky and light rain brought relief to the capital Monday from the searing heat, but the strong winds caused disruption of nearly two dozen flights. According to the India Meteorological Department, the city recorded nearly 1 mm of rainfall in the evening, bringing ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 9:56 pm ICT by admin
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Bhubaneswar, May 5 (IANS) A heat wave sweeping Orissa has killed at least 19 people and hospitalised over 100 as temperatures soared over 45 degree Celsius, an official said Monday. "The death toll can be more," D.N. Sahu, an officer on special duty at the state revenue control room, told ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 9:15 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Residents in Delhi Monday heaved a sigh of relief from the sweltering heat as the overcast sky and windy conditions after Sunday's late afternoon precipitation somewhat brought the temperature down. People in northern and central India are also likely to get some relief from the ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 8:55 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Residents in Delhi Monday heaved a sigh of relief from the sweltering heat as the overcast sky and windy conditions after Sunday's late afternoon precipitation somewhat brought the temperature down. People in northern and central India are also likely to get some relief from the ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 8:28 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) The rising heat levels in the northern Indian plains - with the exception of Haryana and Himachal Pradesh - led to early declaration of summer holidays for schools in the Jharkhand capital even as streets in most parts of Uttar Pradesh wore a deserted look ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 4:37 pm ICT by admin
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Junagadh (Gujarat), May 5 (IANS) A five-year-old panther has died of brain haemorrhage in Gir region of Gujarat, officials said Monday. The carcass was found Saturday in village Samer in Gir (east) of Jasadar range. The post mortem examination showed the panther had died due to brain haemorrhage after it ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 4:01 pm ICT by admin
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Ranchi, May 5 (IANS) The scorching heat has forced Ranchi district authorities to direct schools to advance their summer vacations as temperatures crossed 40 degrees at several places. Around 10 schools announced the start of summer holidays Monday itself in light of the directive.
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May 5th, 2008 - 2:02 pm ICT by admin
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By Joydeep Gupta
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore, is set to become its chairman for a second term, official sources said. His current term ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 1:42 pm ICT by admin
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Shimla, May 5 (IANS) Woollens were being pulled out again as thundershowers brought down temperatures in most parts of Himachal Pradesh Monday, a day after this state capital experienced its hottest day this summer. The rains were accompanied by strong winds and there were reports of hailstorms at a few ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 10:55 am ICT by admin
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By Rajeev Ranjan Roy
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) A lone voice has emerged from the corridors of power to plead for the endangered Olive Ridley turtles in Orissa - seeking a ban on all missile tests from Chandipur during April and May every year. Bhartruhari Mahtab, a member of the ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 7:29 am ICT by admin
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