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  • Dam referendum

    Dam referendum

    Residents of Rio Hondo municipality in Guatemala's eastern department of Zacapa recently rejected a hydroelectric plant on the Colorado river through a referendum. "We say no

  • Hybrid cars take over

    Hybrid cars take over

    Toyota has announced that in future, 100 per cent of the manufacturer's new vehicles will be hybrids, running on both electricity and traditional fuels. Japan's largest and the world's second-largest

  • Ramkistapur village

    Ramkistapur village

    Parakal <i>mandal</i>, Warangal district

  • Chinese aid for lassa outbreak

    Chinese aid for lassa outbreak

    Following an emergency request from Liberian health authorities, the Chinese embassy in Liberia has contributed drugs to control an outbreak of the deadly lassa fever. The disease broke out in

  • Where have all the sparrows gone?

    The friendly chirp of sparrows is less heard today. The birds are in decline in India and in many other parts of the world they are considered pests. Sparrows feed on leftovers from cleaning grains.

  • When did Oxygen appear on Earth?

    oxygen, which makes up about 21 per cent of the Earth's atmosphere, might have made its appearance on the planet million of years earlier than what scientists had earlier thought. An analysis of a

  • Shame, shame

    Shame, shame

    Climate Change

  • Political dredging

    Political dredging

    Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has flayed the Union ministry of shipping, road transport and highways for showing undue haste and irresponsibility in launching the Sethusamudram Canal

  • Game for wind power

    Game for wind power

    In what is being touted as a "global first in sporting history', the Manchester City Football Club (mcfc) is set to power its City of Manchester stadium and neighbouring facilities in East

  • Snippets

    &#149; Singapore has witnessed 8,308 dengue fever cases in 2005, including seven deaths. This is nearly double the number of infections in the same period in 2004, when the number of cases reached a

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