 | As India opens up a new sector that has long been the monopoly of the government, a hundred and one questions hang over the heads of those wanting to launch community radio stations.
But the biggest of these simply is: what does it cost to set... More |
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Expressing solidarity with the survivors of the 1984 gas leak tragedy, a Chennai-based activist group Monday launched a campaign against the Tata group after its chairman Ratan Tata offer to pay up for and clean up Union Carbide's toxic waste in... More |
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 | More than 400 caged cats that were to be sold in south China for their fur and meat were rescued by a group of cat lovers who broke into a pet shop Sunday.
About 30 members of the Tianjin-based club that goes by the English name "I Cat Home"... More |
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 | China's four great modern inventions are hybrid rice, laser photocomposition system for Chinese character typesetting, total synthesis of bovine insulin and compound artemether, according to Chinese netizens.
More than 100,000 netizens... More |
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 | Farmers in Jharkhand are now keeping in mind the tastes of elephants while sowing crops to prevent the tuskers from rampaging their fields and killing people.
In the last few years, the farmers have come to know the likes and dislikes of... More |
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 | China will develop its own magnetically levitated (maglev) trains that can travel at speeds of up to 500 km per hour.
A 30-km-long test line will be built before 2010, said a ministry of science and technology report.
The maglev trains are... More |
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 | One-step forward, two steps back...is this the fate of non-commercial, non-state radio broadcasting in Asia? It would seem so, going by the perceptions of a campaigner trying to promote community radio even as he says India holds out hope.
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 | The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) froze 22 out of 55 technical cooperation projects with Iran, the UN nuclear watchdog said in a report to its 35-nation board here.
The IAEA followed the line laid out in UN Security Council... More |
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 | Popular music is going to go digital with a vengeance as the download music market grows and the music industry finds "new levels" to adjust to the realities of the current techno-century.
"This year, India will be the second largest market in... More |
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 | With a six-hour, 40-minute stroll, Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams achieved yet another milestone - the first woman in history to have logged a record 29 hours and 17 minutes in four space walks.
Venturing out of her home in space with... More |
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