Arctic ice melt prelude to severe winters
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India may take up EU carbon tax at Rio
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India’s low-carbon growth strategy
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Rajasthan has the highest probability of drought: Report
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Russia plays hardball on ENR transfer to India
OnIndia‘s negotiations with Russia on civil nuclear energy are set to enter an intense phase, according to top officials of Russian nuclear giant Rusatom. Asked if Russia would comply with its promise to transfer enrichment and reprocessing (ENR) technology to India in…
HC Stays Home Ministry Order Against Foreign Funds
OnThe Madras High Court bench here today granted interim stay against an order of the Foreign Contributions Regulation Wing (FCRW) of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, preventing the 450-year-old Tuticorin Diocesan Association from receiving foreign funds and from freezing the association’s…
Chinese dissident found hanged in hospital
OnRelatives reject officials’ suggestions Li Wangyang, imprisoned after 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, committed suicide. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/06/20126741641903162.html
Tentative deal on Egypt constituent assembly
OnTentative deal on Egypt constituent assembly Political parties agree to plan for 100-member body which will draft the country’s new constitution. Political factions in Egypt have tentatively agreed to a deal to form a new constitutional assembly, an agreement which would end…
‘All-out civil war’ looms in Syria
OnKofi Annan, the joint United Nations-Arab League envoy to Syria, has admitted that his peace plan is failing and that the country’s future will consist of “brutal suppression, massacres, sectarian violence and even all-out civil war” if it continues on its current…
Helicopter missing in mountains of Peru
OnHelicopter missing in mountains of Peru Search under way after helicopter with 14 people on board, including eight South Koreans, disappears over the Andes. A helicopter carrying 14 people including eight South Koreans and citizens from the Czech Republic, Sweden and the…