 | The world's first rhino conceived through artificial insemination has been born in Budapest Zoo, weighing a whopping 58 kg, zoo officials said Wednesday.
The proud mother, 26-year-old Lulu, had miscarried an artificially inseminated rhino in... More |
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 | Software tools for seven Indian languages, available to users free of cost, were released by Communications and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran Wednesday here.
The seven languages are Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu.... More |
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 | Ten US corporations have urged the government to set ambitious, mandatory caps on greenhouse-gas emissions, taking a stand against global warming that contrasts with President George W. Bush's voluntary approach.
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 | The World Bank Tuesday announced a grant of $45.4 million to co-finance the launch of projects for rehabilitation of coal-fired power generation plants that will help ensure clean energy.
The 'Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation' project, the... More |
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 | Google, the world's biggest web-search engine, had its German website cut off from the internet Tuesday, apparently after somebody hijacked the rights to its google.de address.
German surfers who tried to enter the Google site instead saw a web... More |
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 | A 19th century French translation of the "Kamasutra", the ancient tome to erotic love by Indian Vatsyayana, is currently the most downloaded of all e-books on an Internet website that provides 20,000 books for free and gets some two million hits... More |
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 | Ahead of its Mission to Moon next year, India Monday achieved an important milestone in its space odyssey as it safely brought back to earth the recovery satellite put into orbit by the Polar Synchronised Launch Vehicle PSLV-C7 12 days ago.
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 | Reliance mobile users across the country will soon be able to enjoy the instant message service of Yahoo!
Yahoo! Instant Messenger (IM) service would enable Reliance Communication's (RCom) over 31 million customers to chat live with other... More |
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 | Rising levels of carbon dioxide and other gases emitted through human activity, generally believed to trap heat in the earth's atmosphere, are an effect rather than the cause of global warming, according to a prominent Russian... More |
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 | Soaring oil and gas prices are leading more and more households to switch to modern wood-burning heating systems in Germany, one of Europe's most densely forested countries.
"Wood grows through god's hand and no further energy is needed to... More |
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