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November 30th, 2008 - 12:37 pm ICT by IANS
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Rio de Janeiro, Nov 30 (IANS) At least 110 people have died in weeks of unusually heavy rains in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, EFE reported Sunday.According to rescue teams, ...
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November 30th, 2008 - 9:55 am ICT by ANI
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New Delhi, Nov.30 (ANI): A day after reviewing the overall security situation in terror-hit Mumbai and the rest of the country with key civil, defence and intelligence officials, the Prime Minister, ...
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November 8th, 2008 - 6:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Guwahati, Nov 8 (IANS) Muslim clerics Saturday issued a fatwa (diktat) against terror, saying terrorists have no place in Islam. "We have declared a war on terror and the general message is ...
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October 24th, 2008 - 8:01 am ICT by IANS
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Managua, Oct 24 (IANS) At least 23 people have been killed and thousands affected in floods caused by torrential rains over the past 30 days in Nicaragua, EFE news agency reported Friday, ...
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October 10th, 2008 - 11:52 am ICT by ANI
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Islamabad, Oct 10 (ANI): Pakistan Airport Security Force arrested a bearded man wearing a burqa trying to board a plane at the Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad.
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October 8th, 2008 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
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Mumbai, Oct 8 (IANS) The central administrative tribunal (CAT) Wednesday quashed the appointment of Maharashtra Director-General of Police (DGP) A.N. Roy following a complaint that he had superseded three officers. The decision ...
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October 8th, 2008 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
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Mumbai, Oct 8 (IANS) The appointment of Maharashtra Director-General of Police (DGP) A.N. Roy was quashed by the central administrative tribunal (CAT) Wednesday, eight months after the state government picked him for ...
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October 5th, 2008 - 7:44 pm ICT by ANI
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By Sandeep Datta
New Delhi, Oct.5 (ANI): The recent bomb blasts in the national capital have created a fear factor among residents here. Low turnout of devotees atpopular temples during the ongoing ...
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October 5th, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by IANS
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Port-au-Prince, Oct 5 (DPA) The number of deaths in Haiti in the wake of four major storms in August and September has more than doubled to at least 793, reports said.Some 300 ...
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August 25th, 2008 - 2:45 am ICT by IANS
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Bishkek/Moscow, Aug 25 (DPA) At least 71 people are believed dead in the crash of an Itek Air Boeing 737 passenger liner shortly after take off from Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek Sunday, the ...
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August 25th, 2008 - 1:18 am ICT by IANS
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Bishkek/Moscow, Aug 24 (DPA) A Boeing 737 passenger jet with 123 people on board crashed in Kyrgyzstan's Bishkek city airport Sunday, the Kyrgyz Civil Defence Ministry reported.A spokesman for the airport ...
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August 18th, 2008 - 4:13 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Paris, Aug 18 (DPA) The toll in the tropical storm Fay in Haiti was feared to be much higher than the official account, the internet edition of the French paper Le Nouvelliste ...
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August 18th, 2008 - 3:08 pm ICT by IANS
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Dubai, Aug 18 (IANS) Three Indian workers were killed and four injured when a fire broke out in a house in the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While ...
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August 8th, 2008 - 8:34 pm ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, Aug 8(IANS)'Ladies be aware about disaster' was the message Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit gave Friday as she inaugurated a workshop on 'Gender Mainstreaming in Disaster Management' here. Dikshit underlined ...
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July 13th, 2008 - 12:53 pm ICT by IANS
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Nuevo Laredo (Mexico), July 13 (IANS) At least 12 people have been killed and more than 100,000 affected in Mexico's northern border state of Tamaulipas in the country's worst rainy season in ...
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June 30th, 2008 - 11:52 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) People in the capital seem to be most unhappy with the ways of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) and Delhi Police, if the number of applications made ...
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June 28th, 2008 - 12:12 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Manila, June 28 (DPA) More than 1,300 people are dead or missing in the Philippines due to accidents caused by typhoon Fengshen, including the sinking of a passenger ferry, the Office of ...
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June 26th, 2008 - 11:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Kolkata, June 26 (IANS) The toll in the floods in West Bengal went up to 46 as many parts of the state still remained inundated Thursday. More than 300,000 people are still ...
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June 26th, 2008 - 12:06 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Manila, June 26 (DPA) The toll in Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines has risen to 622 with nearly 1,000 people still missing, mostly from the sinking of a passenger ferry, officials said ...
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June 26th, 2008 - 1:04 am ICT by IANS
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Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) Over 600,000 flood victims were still awaiting to be rescued in West Bengal's East Midnapore district, state's Relief Minister Mortaja Hossain said Wednesday evening. "Over 600,000 persons are ...
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June 19th, 2008 - 3:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Bhubaneswar / Kolkata /Uttar Pradesh/ Guwahati/, June 19 (ANI): The flood situation in Orissa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand has affected the normal life while Assam showed some signs of ...
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June 14th, 2008 - 9:34 pm ICT by IANS
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Bangalore, June 14 (IANS) A three-day international conference on disaster management began here Saturday with a call by Indian Home minister Shivraj Patil to share information on managing disasters as that would ...
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June 14th, 2008 - 8:23 pm ICT by ANI
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Bangalore, June 14 (ANI): Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today said that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government was considering a suitable amendment in the National Disaster Management Act to strengthen ...
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June 2nd, 2008 - 9:44 pm ICT by IANS
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Dubai, June 2 (IANS) Six Asian construction workers are feared killed in an accident at a hotel building site in the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) early Monday. ...
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June 2nd, 2008 - 1:16 pm ICT by admin
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Dhaka, June 2 (ANI): At least 45 people were injured in a series of explosions at a multi-storey hotel in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, late on Sunday night.
Thirty of the ...
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May 30th, 2008 - 3:03 pm ICT by admin
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Panama City, May 30 (IANS) At least six people have been killed and scores injured when an air force helicopter crashed onto a shopping mall in the Panama capital, Spain's EFE news ...
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May 30th, 2008 - 1:07 pm ICT by admin
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Xinhua
Managua, May 30 (Xinhua) Nicaragua has set up 995 emergency shelters in response to an alert of hurricane Alma Friday in the country, the Civil Defence department said. The coastal area is ...
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May 26th, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by admin
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Bogota, May 26 (IANS) The toll in Colombia's earthquake has risen to 11, even as the rescue work continues, Spain's EFE news agency has reported. The quake, measuring 5.5 on the Richter ...
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May 20th, 2008 - 4:58 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Mexico City, May 20 (DPA) At least 21 people have been killed and more than 20 injured when a bus plummeted 200 meters off a mountain highway in the Mexican state of ...
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April 25th, 2008 - 9:34 am ICT by admin
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Onboard Air India One, Apr 25 (ANI): On her return from two-week long visit to three Latin American countries - Mexico, Brazil and Chile, President Pratibha Patil said that her visit ...
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