Hindus not migrating: Pakistani panel
August 27th, 2012 - 12:17 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 27 (IANS) Hindus are not migrating to India and giving up their Pakistani citizenship, said a committee that was formed to look into reports of mass migration ... Read more...
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Climate change forces mirgration of Australian tropical fish
August 17th, 2012 - 6:04 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 17 (IANS) Australian scientists have unearthed "striking evidence" of mass migration of tropical fish southwards owing to climate change.Compiled by over 80 of Australia's leading marine experts for ... Read more...
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Mass migration from Chhattisgarh villages after shootout
July 7th, 2012 - 5:54 pm ICT by IANS
Raipur, July 7 (IANS) Korsaguda and Sarkeguda villages in Chhattigarh are witnessing large scale migration as people are fleeing to nearby states, leaving behind their agricultural land, following a midnight ... Read more...
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Rising temperatures could render some species homeless
November 7th, 2011 - 3:15 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 7 (IANS) Mass migration of animal and plant species, forced by rising temperatures, could leave some marine species virtually homeless.
An international team, led by Mike Burrows from ... Read more...
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Medical, military leaders call climate change a threat to global security
April 6th, 2011 - 2:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 6 (ANI): Climate change not only spells a global health catastrophe, but also threatens global stability and security, say medical and military leaders."Climate change poses an immediate and grave threat, ... Read more...
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Report says ‘mass migration triggered by climate change’ won’t happen
February 5th, 2011 - 5:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 5 (ANI): A new report has said that fears that climate change will trigger mass migrations from one part of the world to another are baseless.The study by the International ... Read more...
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Labour lawmaker demands Oz Govt explanation on move to seek skilled Indian migrants
January 21st, 2011 - 1:46 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan.21 (ANI): A Labour Party lawmaker in Australia has sought a clarification from Prime Minister Julia Gillard about an Indian newspaper report that suggested that Canberra is seeking more skilled migrants, ... Read more...
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Lack of opportunity prompts four million Italians to live abroad
December 3rd, 2010 - 12:44 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Dec 3 (IANS/AKI) More than four million Italians, or about seven percent of Italy's population, live abroad in search of a work, according to a new report presented Thursday in Rome ... Read more...
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Christianity in Egypt started 200 years earlier than thought
November 30th, 2010 - 4:25 pm ICT by ANI
Utah, Nov 30 (ANI): Brigham Young University researchers have unearthed evidence that proves Christianity in Egypt started two centuries earlier than previously believed.The researchers were digging on the edge of the Fayum ... Read more...
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Milk ‘drove Neolithic immigration of Middle Easterners to Europe’
October 16th, 2010 - 5:27 pm ICT by ANI
Berlin, Oct 16 (ANI): New research has revealed that immigration from the Middle East to Europe was driven by the newcomers' sophisticated culture, mastery of agriculture - and their miracle food, milk.Archaeologist ... Read more...
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How mass migration evolved
September 19th, 2010 - 3:56 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 19 (ANI): A new study of migration's origins has suggested that even small changes in the social behaviours of solitary animals may set in motion an evolutionary cascade ending in ... Read more...
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Climate change not linked to African civil wars, claims expert
September 7th, 2010 - 2:21 pm ICT by ANI
London, Sep 7 (ANI): An expert has dismissed claims that global warming can drive civil war in crisis-ridden parts of Africa.In his popular 2008 book Climate Wars, the US journalist and military ... Read more...
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Why bird flu didn’t become a pandemic
September 6th, 2010 - 1:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that why irrespective of the 2005 outbreak of the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in South East Asia, it didn't' turn into a pandemic. ... Read more...
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Militants trying to enter Peshawar in guise of flood victims: Report
August 2nd, 2010 - 7:00 pm ICT by ANI
Peshawar, Aug 2(ANI): Taking advantage of the internal mass migration of people in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province due to heavy flooding, militants are reportedly trying to enter Peshawar and other districts ... Read more...
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Report warns of acute water shortages in Himalayan region
June 28th, 2010 - 5:20 pm ICT by IANS
Singapore, June 28 (DPA) Himalayan river basins in China, Bangladesh, India and Nepal will face a massive water depletion within 20 years, leading to a decline in food and mass migration, a ... Read more...
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Frogs Flood Greece, Precursor To a Major Earthquake?
May 27th, 2010 - 2:08 am ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
May 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) A report by the Associated Press describes a horde of frogs which forced officials to close down a major highway in Thessaloniki, Greece. Some readers may remember Thessaloniki ... Read more...
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Urban amenities for rural India - with private help
May 16th, 2010 - 1:48 pm ICT by IANS
By Prashant Sood
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Here's an idea that, if it works, could change the face of rural India. The government has begun partnering private players for rural development with ... Read more...
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Over 3,000 dinosaur footprints found in China
February 7th, 2010 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 7 (IANS) Archaeologists in China claim to have traced the evidence of mass migration of dinosaurs from the country's east more than 100 million years ago.
The large track ... Read more...
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Kandhamal riot victims flee from Orissa due to government’s failure to provide relief
December 25th, 2009 - 10:18 pm ICT by ANI
Srikakulam (Orissa), Dec 25 (ANI): Orissa is witnessing mass migration by the tribals victims of last year's religious violence, due to apathy of the administration.The residents from various districts and villages ... Read more...
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Brit climate change expert says Copenhagen will be last chance to save Earth
December 2nd, 2009 - 4:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec.2 (ANI): Britain's leading expert on Climate change, Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, has said the summit on challenges of global warming at Copenhagen, Denmark, could well be the last chance ... Read more...
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Booming economy sends syphilis rates skyrocketing in China
November 4th, 2009 - 4:38 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, November 4 (ANI): China's rapidly developing economy is the driving force behind boosting number of syphilis cases over the past decade in the country, a senior public health official has ... Read more...
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‘Floods, drought derailing India’s fight against poverty’
October 7th, 2009 - 3:19 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Oct 7 (IANS) The massive food scarcity in India due to floods and drought is impacting hundreds of millions, derailing ongoing humanitarian work by years and adding to other serious ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
70,000 Arab graduates migrate for overseas jobs annually
September 6th, 2009 - 8:50 am ICT by IANS
Dubai, Sep 6 (IANS) Some 70,000 Arab university graduates migrate annually to foreign countries for jobs, while 54 percent of Arab students studying abroad do not return to their native places, resulting ... Read more...
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Potsdam symposium urges action on climate change
June 1st, 2009 - 3:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 1 (ANI): Participants at the Nobel Laureate Symposium Series on Global Sustainability in Potsdam have called for a 'Great Transformation' aimed at bringing about technical, economic, political and cultural changes ... Read more...
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Genesis of mass migration of fish observed for first time
March 27th, 2009 - 4:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 27 (ANI): Engineers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), for the first time, have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of fish.The ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Ancient mass migration of men from Africa populated world
December 22nd, 2008 - 4:12 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 22 (IANS) Modern humans quit Africa over 60,000 years ago in a migration that many believe populated the earth. Now, researchers have revealed that men and women weren't equal partners ... Read more...
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UKs dino connection to the US established by researchers
November 24th, 2008 - 12:44 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 24 (ANI): A new research has suggested that footprints found on Skye in Scotland, and in Wyoming, in the US, were left by the same dinosaurs or a similar ... Read more...
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Mass migration a post-Cold War threat: ex-British minister
November 17th, 2008 - 4:49 pm ICT by IANS
London, Nov 17 (IANS) A former British cabinet minister says mass migration is among the biggest post-Cold War “threats” facing Britain - along with terrorism and crime."Forty years ago, the Cold War ... Read more...
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Mass migration, Internet major threats to UKs national security: Ex-Home Secretary
November 17th, 2008 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov.17 (ANI): Former British Home Secretary John Reid has warned that mass migration and the Internet are major threats to the countrys national security.
According to The Telegraph, Reid also listed ... Read more...
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Migratory moths that hitch rides on wind are not drifters
October 14th, 2008 - 5:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, October 14 (ANI): While migratory moths are known to hitch rides on the wind, a new study suggests that it would be wrong to brand them drifters.
Studies conducted in ... Read more...
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British Muslim community not advanced enough to have Sharia courts
October 12th, 2008 - 2:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 12 (ANI): British Prime Minister Gordon Browns new minister for race relations has attacked Sharia courts, insisting that the Muslim community in Britain is not advanced enough to have ... Read more...
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More Pakistanis have positive feelings towards Qaeda than negative
October 1st, 2008 - 12:41 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore , Oct 1 (ANI): A recent worldwide survey conducted by the BBC found that Pakistan was among two nations - the other being Egypt where mixed or positive feelings toward ... Read more...
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Mass migration in Bihar to escape fury of flooded Kosi
August 30th, 2008 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, Aug 30 (IANS) Hundreds of thousands of people in flood-ravaged Bihar trudged or took a ride on any means of transport to escape the waters of the turbulent Kosi river as ... Read more...
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China’s quake-hit residents flee after new tremor warning
May 20th, 2008 - 11:55 am ICT by admin
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Beijing, May 20 (DPA) Many people in China's quake-hit areas fled their homes and villages overnight after government seismologists forecast a major aftershock measuring between 6 and 7 on the Richter scale, ... Read more...
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Animals, clouds not true indicators of earthquake: Chinese scientists
May 16th, 2008 - 5:28 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi , May 16 (ANI): Chinese scientists have said that the migration of toads or unusual cloud formations cannot be the true indicators of earthquakes.Zhang Guomin, a senior researcher at ... Read more...
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