Frack Fluid Spill in Dimock Contaminates Stream, Killing Fish
Region: United States
Pennsylvania environment officials are racing to clean up as much as 8,000 gallons of dangerous drilling fluids after a series of spills at a natural gas production site near the town of Dimock late last week. The spills,... more
Views: 1726Murder case registered against CRPF for unprovoked firing
Region: IndiaMurder case registered against CRPF for unprovoked firing, Ministers visit Baramulla, assess situation Srinagar,June 30 - A J&K Government spokesman said here th... more
Views: 839EPA Administrator Forecasts Potential Shift on Bush-Era Drilling Loophole
Region: District of Columbia
Signaling the potential for an important policy reversal, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said in a congressional hearing on Tuesday that the agency would consider revisiting its controversial po... more
Views: 1245Six Thousand Sri Lankan Soldiers Sacrificed Their Lives During Offensives Against LTTE
Region: Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksha says that Six Thousand Two Hundred Sixty One(6,261) Sri Lankan Soldiers Sacrificed their lives while engaged in Liberating North and Eastern Provinces held by LTTE Rebels.T... more
Views: 1163World Hypertension Day -30 Percent Population in Kashmir Suffering From Hypertension
Region: India
Srinagar, May 18 - In connection with the World Hypertension Day Ikhlas Welfare Society Kashmir organized a medical camp on Monday at Khangund Tral, in Kashmir about 53 kms from Srinagar,the summer capital. This year&rsq... more
Views: 1313Indian Engineering Students Help Redesign the Rickshaw
Region: IndiaThe public sector Kerala Automobiles Limited (KAL) has received unexpected assistance from a team of engineering students to redesign one of its three-wheeler models. The remodelling was taken up by Sonu S. Babu, Rahul Ha... more
Views: 2322Catering Industry Hit Hard in Hong Kong
Region: Hong KongSince the economic downtown, the situation of the catering industry in Hong Konghas degraded substantially. It is very hard for the proprietors of restaurants to sustain their work in the disaster. I can’t go... more
Views: 4148Snow and Economic Bellwethers in North Carolina
Region: United StatesI am sitting in a small Italian eatery in Durham, North Carolina – thinking about my morning and about how welcome the construction sounds outside my Raleigh hotel room were just after waking, and the owner comes ove... more
Views: 1325Calderon outlines plan for Mexico's struggling economy
Region: Mexico
Mexico, finding itself in the same economic downspin as the rest of the world, is taking steps to jumpstart its economy. President Felipe Calderon recently announced a plan in which he hopes to increase spending on sch... more
Views: 1351ICME Exhibition 2008
Region: Bangladesh
The ICME Exhibition 2008 started yesterday, taking place at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. The exhibition largely on engineering will be open to all daily from 9am till 10pm daily until the 31st ... more
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