Swine Flu Prompts ‘World Hand-Washing Day’ in Japan [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 5, Hits: 131]
The systemic fear of H1N1, known more colloquially as “swine flu,” has seized the world by the haunches...
Tokyo | Japan
Updated On: 11/7/2009
Tags: Hand Washing Swine Flu Prompts, World Hand Washing Day, World Hand Washing Day In Japan, H1n1 Virus, Swine Flu, United Nations, Tokyo, Japan, Hand Washing Instructions, World Health Organization, Ayako Uragami Of Japan Committe For Unicef, Universal Hand-washing Dance, Hidemi Kimura, Principal Of Takanawa Kindergarten, Swine Flu In Tokyo, Healthy Life
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Games committee ropes in players to counter carbon footprint in 2010 [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 21, Hits: 385]
he Organising Committee has now hired NGO Nature First to plan a series of steps to offset this and make Games carbon-neutral.
New Delhi | India
Updated On: 9/6/2009
Tags: Delhi, Greenhouse gases, Commonwealth Games, Organizing Committee, Games carbon-neutral, Memorandum of Understanding, United Nations Environment Programme, Beijing Olympics, China, Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee, Carbon offset programmes, Carbon footprint, Continental Airlines, British Airways, Chinese Technology Minister Wan Gang, Samir Menon of Nature First, New Delhi Municipal Council, Haryana, Ministry of Earth Sciences
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'We're praying to river the goddess and offering her blood [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 277, Hits: 3581]
Kosi, known as Bihar's "river of sorrow" for its regular floods and ability to change course...
Patna | India
Updated On: 9/1/2008
Tags: Indian Army Troops, Kosi River, River of Sorrow, River Goddess, United Nations, Water-Borne Disease, Global Warming, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Bihar News Online
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Dogs rescue girl abandoned by mother [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 462, Hits: 3068]
Hundreds of villagers have flocked to a remote Indian village to see a baby girl who was saved by stray dogs after she was abandoned...
Samastipur | India
Updated On: 4/23/2008
Tags: Stray Dogs, Female Foeticide, Bihar State News, Samastipur Current News, Ram Narayan Sahani, United Nations, Bihar Police, Huge Dowries, Dogs Rescue Girl
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Fastest climber Pemba Dorje Sherpa eyes another Qomolangma record [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 411, Hits: 3447]
Pemba Dorje Sherpa, who set a new record by scaling Mt. Qomolangma in the shortest time...
Kathmandu | Nepal
Updated On: 4/13/2008
Tags: Pemba Dorje Sherpa, Mt. Qomolangma, Mahottari, Taplejung, Guineas book of world records, Seven-time summitteer, World Food Program, Minbahadur Sherchan, Mustang district of Nepal, Katsusuke Yanagisawa from Japan, Guinness Record, Everest
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Every 3rd illiterate in the world lives in India [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 672, Hits: 3024]
268 million of the World's 771 million illiterates, India on Wednesday cited plans to spend Rs 6,000 crores to make 85 per cent of Indians literate over the next five years...

Updated On: 12/5/2007
Tags: Illiterates in India, Delhi, Indian Democracy, Human Resource Development Ministry of India, Indians Literates, Indian Adult Education Department, Literacy in India, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Conference in New Delhi, Indian National Literacy Mission, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Right to Information Act in India, Human Resource Development Ministry Secretary, Joint secretary Vandana Jena, Indian National Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh, Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
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Mumbai cop takes paternity leave [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1650, Hits: 3230]
Kargaonkar, a 1990-batch IPS officer, has become the first Mumbai cop to go on paternity leave...

Updated On: 11/21/2007
Tags: Caesarean operation, Mumbai Cop, Joint commissioner of Police, Central Bureau of Investigation, Paternity Leave, Mumbai
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IN THE DOLLHOUSE - Indian toys to breathe fire at Chinese dragon [Vote Average: 3, Total Votes: 1701, Hits: 3217]
Starting in 1997, Chinese toys flooded India, flattening all local competition. Many Indian manufacturers shut down and switched to retailing...

PTI Updated On: 8/19/2007
Tags: Chinese Toys, Indian Toys, Paresh Chawla, Toys Association of India, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, UNIDO, Toys City, Greater Noida
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