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Study sheds new light on extinction rates of species on islands - 01 Jan 2008
on the subject of extinction rates of species on islands, suggesting that diversity among animals on islands is on the rise. It's no secret that humans are having... decided to test that theory by studying the world's far-flung islands. 

State social welfare board chairpersons to meet in Andaman islands - 15 May 2013
Andaman and Nicobar, May 15 (ANI): A two-day conference of State Social Welfare Board Chairpersons begins today in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Lt Governor... this morning. This is the first time that such a conference is being held in the islands

Invasive plant species predate humans' arrival on Galapagos Islands - 01 Jan 2008
on the Galapagos Islands, which were thought to be invasive species brought...;The islands' 825 introduced species outnumber the 552 plants that are native to the islands. There are also 62 plant species classified as "doubtful natives

Arctic ice shelf splits, creating two huge ice islands - 01 Jan 2008
London, July 31 (ANI): Canadian scientists have revealed that part of the Arctic ice shelf has sheared off, creating two huge ice islands, all thanks to global... islands. According to a report in the Telegraph, together the two islands cover

Anna Hazare visits Shanti Kunj, starts Jan Jagran Yatra - 14 May 2013
Haridwar, May 14 (IANS) Social activist Anna Hazare visited Shanti Kunj here, the headquarters of the Gayatri Parivar, and began his Jan Jagran Yatra for Uttarakhand Tuesday.Speaking at the Mrityunjaya auditorium at the Dev Sanskrati

Reliance Power IPO to hit market on Jan 15 - 05 Jan 2008
Jan 05:  A very much-awaited shares of Reliance Power Limited is going to hit the market from January 15 in the form of Initial Public Offers and likely to be listed on the bourses from the first week of February, announced

Delhi Local Sports News - Jan 14 - 14 Jan 2008
Riding on Sudip Banikâ??s 75th minute decisive goal spirited Tarun Sangha scored a close 2-1 win over Hindustan FC to book a place in the semifinals of the Sail-ONGC Delhi Soccer Associationâ??s senior division open club football league championship play

Iran Pakistan Gas Pipeline deal to finalise by Jan 25 - 08 Jan 2008
Dust accumulating Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project is all set to get finalise between Iran and Pakistan on January 25, 2008, as informed by Iranâ??s ambassador to Islamabad Mashallah Shakeri on Sunday. He hailed the project for its various

First human settlers in America may have come from Europe - 01 Jan 2008
Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans... University's Dr. Ron Janke's research into the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands... began studying the origins of the Kankakee Sand Islands - a series of hundreds

Grenada biggest mover in FIFA rankings - 14 May 2013
The Spice Boyz, crowned Windward Islands' football champions last month, climbed 20 spots to 121 in the global rankings and 16 in the Confederation of North... to the two victories in the Windward Islands Football Association (WIFA

Tots use different methods to control speech than adults - 10 Jan 2012
Washington, Jan 10 (ANI): Children under the age of two control speech using a different strategy than previously thought, a new study has found. In the study, researchers at Queen's University changed the vowel sounds

Fifth International Convention of 'Dalit and Minorities' begins in New York - 01 Jan 2008
New York, July 5 (ANI): Union Steel Minister and Lok Jan Shakti Party chief Ram Vilas Paswan began the Fifth International Convention of 'Dalit and Minorities' Seminar in New York on Friday.  Paswan is the Chairman of the Dalit

No tsunami alert sounded after Andaman quake - 01 Jan 2008
Port Blair, June 27 (ANI): The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has said that no tsunami alert has been issued after an earthquake measuring 6.7 at Richter scale hit Andaman Islands at 5:40 p.m. today. Electricity supply

I look decent, says Shakira of her post-baby body - 10 May 2013
Washington, May 10 (ANI): Shakira, who welcomed her first child together with footballer boyfriend, Gerard Pique, on Jan. 22, is learning how to balance her demanding work schedule with being a new mom. In an interview at House of Blues

CBI to reinvestigate Anti-Sikh riots case - 18 Dec 2007
The Delhi court directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to reinvestigate the 1984 Sikh riot case and also to record the key witness Jasbir Singh’s statement and submit it by Jan 16, 2008 in a hearing here on Tuesday

Blood bath in the Indian Stock Market - 21 Jan 2008
Monday has proved another black day for Indian Stock Market as on Jan 21, 2008. Indian bourses have seen the biggest ever fall in the stock Market history breaking all major supporting levels. BSE, Sensex, (a pack of 30 companies

Gran has Timberlake, Biel's wedding venue picked out - 01 Jan 2008
London, July 15 (ANI): While American pop singer Justin Timberlake has reportedly been eyeing islands as a venue for his marriage to actress Jessica Biel, his grandmother, Sadie Bomar, already has the perfect place picked out. Bomar

Yet another suicide blast kills 26, injures many in Lahore - 10 Jan 2008
In yet another suicide blast at least 26 people including 22 policemen have been reportedly killed and over sixty people got injured on Thursday (Jan 10) at around 11:45 IST in the Pakistan city of Lahore . The blast took place near

Brewing tradition existed in Ireland as far back as 2500 BC: Study - 01 Jan 2008
Vienna, Jan 29 (ANI): Two archaeologists, who made the headlines worldwide last year after they suggested that one of the most common archaeological monuments in the Irish landscape might have been used for brewing a Bronze Age Beer

Sankalp Rallyâ??s â??SANKALPâ?? â?? LJP chief, the next Prime Minister - 29 Nov 2007
Sankalp Rally’s “SANKALP” – LJP chief, the next Prime Minister Nov 29:  One of the king maker now wants to quit from his self-taking responsibility of making king in Bihar. Lok Jan Shakti party leader

Need to construct additional bases in Andamans, Laskshadweep: Antony - 14 May 2013
construction of additional bases was necessary in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands... infrastructure, especially in the islands, Antony said that construction of additional bases and naval air stations was necessary in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Test inspired by luminous mollusc can predict illness - 01 Jan 2008
contract a serious infection. A husband-wife team of doctors-Jan Knight and Robert..., and to monitor the progress of an infection. Jan and Robert have revealed... at the right time," he said.  Dr. Jan Knight added: "We can detect changes

Obama, not Clinton would have been helped by Edwards' absence in Iowa - 01 Jan 2008
participant in every precinct in Iowa on Jan. 3, 2008, included a question

Norway welcomes India as observer in Arctic Circle - 16 May 2013
interest in that part of the world". India has a research station at Svalbard... resources.Referring to the Indian station at Svalbard, Homme told IANS: "That is a laboratory

'Hope India will help tackle melting ice as Arctic Circle observer' - 16 May 2013
has a research station at Svalbard, Norway.The Council Wednesday agreed... and using the available resources.Referring to the Indian station at Svalbard, Homme

Half of US coral reefs in 'poor' or 'fair' condition, says NOAA report - 01 Jan 2008
conditions in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Navassa Island, southeast Florida, the Florida Keys, Flower Garden Banks, the Main Hawaiian Islands, the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, American Samoa, the Pacific Remote Islands, the Republic

Japan protests over Chinese article challenging Okinawa island ownership - 10 May 2013
unresolved issue of the Ryukyu islands', as Okinawa is known.Okinawa is Japan's southern-most prefecture, comprising several islands, and is home to 1.4 million

Scientists dumbfounded after shark eats polar bear - 01 Jan 2008
shark in Svalbard, northern Norway. "We've never heard of this before. We

Evaluation of damages to coastal eco-systems - 28 May 2008
in Andaman & Nicobar Islands to the extent of 18%. Due to the effect of Tsunami... suggest that in Andaman Islands about 3850 ha of mangroves were lost, while.... Coral reefs were also damaged in Andaman & Nicobar Islands to the extent

Russia to return Yinlong, Heixiazi Island to China - 01 Jan 2008
Island) and half of Heixiazi Island (Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island). The islands... is collectively referred to as the Heixiazi Islands. After the 2004 agreement, the two sides spent three years delimitating the border around the islands

Kapil Sibal inaugurates 'Himdari' in the Arctic - 01 Jan 2008
and offers the ideal land-based entrance to the Arctic.  The whole Svalbard

Chinese ambassador urges U.S. to be "truly neutral" on Sino-Japanese territorial dispute - 18 May 2013
blamed Japan for creating the dispute and tensions over the Diaoyu Islands by taking the move to "nationalize" the islands last year, breaking a previous... had tranquility over these islands for many years, until the Japanese

Clownfish uses its nose to find its way home - 01 Jan 2008
preference for water collected from reefs that contained islands. The researchers... with islands on them should be targeted by reef management because they become (places) that people use, and there's usually a limited land area on islands, which

The 21st century Noah's Ark - 01 Jan 2008
;Sea levels are expected to rise 3ft by 2100, threatening islands, coastal areas

Cuba to hold international boxing tournament - 15 May 2013
, Brazil, Chile, the Cayman Islands, Canada, Kazakhstan, China, Jordan, Algeria

Timberlake hunting for 'perfect' ring for ladylove Biel? - 01 Jan 2008
reportedly eyeing many exotic islands as a venue for his marriage to Biel. (ANI) 

Timberlake orders 'thin' Biel to pig out on burgers, beer - 01 Jan 2008
;The '4 Minutes' singer is also reportedly eyeing many exotic islands as a venue

West Bengal and Bangladesh on Cyclone alert - 15 Nov 2007
Bengal-Bangladesh coast near the Sagar Islands by Friday. According to West... of Andaman Islands changed direction towards coastal areas of west Bengal

1.3 million saplings planted in a day in Himachal - 01 Jan 2008
of saplings being planted by public under the programme named "Jan-Jan- Sanjivni Van... to involve the classes and the masses people through this Jan-Jan- Sanjivni... this programme known as Jan-Jan- Sanjivni Van Abhiyan 2008," said J. P. Nadda, Minister

Shah Rukh not back on Twitter - 10 May 2013
a source.The 47-year-old has not tweeted anything since Jan 9. On Friday Mika posted... tweeted.Shah Rukh's last post on Jan 9 suggested that he was unhappy with the way the web

Brits taking to 'staycations' to save money - 01 Jan 2008
of the limited amount of accommodation in the islands, people tend to book a year in advance. We have four campsites in the islands and they are fully booked... to the islands and they are trying to save elsewhere." (ANI) 

Barbados to host historic contest for shooting supremacy - 10 May 2013
Britain competing against teams from Australia, Canada, the Channel Islands

Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens turn starry eyed on the beach - 01 Jan 2008
on their holidays on the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean, and later splashing around

Mills getting private business lessons from Branson - 01 Jan 2008
at Necker Island, Branson's British Virgin Islands retreat.  She is also said

Bangladesh's landmass is growing because of sediment dumped by rivers - 01 Jan 2008
, attaching itself to river banks, or even creating new islands.  According

Subsidised grain for non-poor families to continue - 16 May 2013
and Kashmir, and Himachal Pradesh and UTs of Lakshdweep and Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Edwards promised Hunter they'd be together after wife's death, says report - 01 Jan 2008
to the Virgin Islands on a chartered jet. According to the Enquirer

Penguin decline sounds bell for potentially catastrophic changes in world's oceans - 01 Jan 2008
of Galapagos Islands penguins, the only species with a range that extends... species in Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand, the Falklands Islands

Climate changes may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon - 01 Jan 2008
regions nearby, like the slopes of the Andes mountains, to become like islands... "islands." According to the study, the genetic evidence was consistent with both

Court orders CBI probe into Bengal custodial death - 13 May 2013
Jan 19, after he was arrested the previous night.A bench of Chief Justice Arun

Short-term visa-free travel for Sochi Olympians - 16 May 2013
accreditation card will be valid from Jan 7 to April 16, 2014. As for possible visa-free

Antony keen on implementing in time second phase of Coastal Security Plan - 14 May 2013
in the islands, Antony said: "The construction of additional bases and naval air stations in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep and Minicoy Islands is necessary

Sundarbans to come as a global tourist destination - 03 Mar 2008
as several islands are swallowed up by the sea in the recent past. The Planning..., several islands have sunk into the sea losing several square kilometers

111 awardees honoured for excellence in agricultural research - 01 Jan 2008
and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The research work in the NEH region pertains to Mithun and that in Andaman and Nicobar Islands to enhancing productivity of home

Isthmus of Panama formed as result of plate tectonics - 01 Jan 2008
formed by rising and subsiding ocean levels or existing as a string of islands... that convincingly suggests Central America was a peninsula and not a group of islands. 

Supreme Court asks MCD to seal properties - 11 Mar 2008
conditional desealing in accordance with the Jan 30 notification of the Centre. The court... that allowed desealing maintaining a status quo on Jan 01, 2006. The SC

Residents of Majuli Island get a speed boat - 10 May 2013
Majuli island, May 10 (ANI): For the residents of Majuli Island, ferries are the only means of transportation. Now, the people of the island have got a speed boat to facilitate commuting. Majuli, one of the largest river islands

Seal of 400-year-old Elizabethan cannon broken by archaeologists - 01 Jan 2008
the Channel Islands and will use it to determine the power that this revolution

Global warming will allow several 'pests' to invade vulnerable Australian ecosystems - 01 Jan 2008
on islands and in other vulnerable areas, and ensure the national Weed Spread

Fishermen should be part of coastal security: Antony - 15 May 2013
and 10 on islands) would help in identifying and monitoring maritime traffic.He

CPI activists protest killing of Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan Navy - 01 Jan 2008
are allowed to rest, fish and dry their nets on the islands. The agreement was amended

Marine snails can adapt their shells to defend against predators - 01 Jan 2008
-in the San Juan Islands, Washington.  He reared wild-caught baby snails

Scientists turn to elephant seals for study of warming Antarctic seas - 01 Jan 2008
, an extremely strong, waterproof glue. Elephant seals breed on Antarctic islands

More Indians want to indulge in adventure sports: Survey - 17 May 2013
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) An ever-increasing number of Indians want to indulge in adventure tourism but are deterred by high costs and lack of trust in operators managing such activities in the country, a survey revealed Friday.

Karachi's unsinkable 'Floating ship' to give people virtual effect of sailing - 01 Jan 2008
newspaper Daily Times quoted Ahmad Jan, Deputy Manager Administrations, as saying....  Jan revealed that the massive parking space might be used as a mini-expo...," Jan said.  The mid-deck, called the Business Lounge, can also be used

EC rejects BJP's call for keeping away Chawla - 20 Apr 2007
of a controversial anti-Muslim CD by BJP in Lucknow, the Congress, BSP, CPI (M) and Jan Morcha

Test venues for South Africa finalised - 03 Jan 2008
Jan 03: The Board of Control for Cricket in India has finalised the venues for the upcoming Test series against South Africa at home. Proteas will play their three Tests in Ahmedabad, Kanpur and Chennai on their tour to India in March

'Dark Knight' end credits to pay tribute to Heath Ledger - 27 Jun 2008
;Ledger died Jan. 22 due to an accidental prescription-drug overdose at the age

Indian NGO giving aid to families of detained Hindraf leaders - 01 Jan 2008
in Kamunting on Jan 9 this year that Hindraf supporters were abusing the public

Pak SC to hear Sharif's ineligibility case on Monday - 01 Jan 2008
Abdul Hameed Dogar and Justice Muhammad Qaim Jan Khan, while the second Bench

Britain to conduct inspection flights over Russia - 14 May 2013
and imaging radar.The Open Skies Treaty, which entered into force Jan 1, 2002

Will Sep 27 prove lucky for Junior NTR again? (With Image) - 16 May 2013
by S.S. Thaman.Dil Raju is the producer of the film, which went on floors Jan 4

Two held in 14-year-old Graham Staines murder case - 17 May 2013
, and Timothy, 6, were burnt to death Jan 22, 1999, while they were sleeping

NHRC summons Odisha chief secretary - 18 May 2013
by the IMC Jan 19. The government has engaged Ayush doctors in over 1,300 state-run

Kujanga as another Nandigram in Orissa - 10 Apr 2007
of direct confrontation with the protesters and they will not want to repeat the Jan 2 incident. Earlier, on Jan 2, last year, 13 tribal people were killed by Police

President's visit to the 'Land of Dying' - 15 Jun 2007
parties and grand shows. According to a Nagpur based organization Vidarbha Jan..., Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, has sought permission from the state government

Fresh Tsunami alert in Indonesia; India too vigilant - 13 Sep 2007
the Andaman and Nicobar Islands administration to closely watch the situation

India develops the most modern tsunami alert system - 16 Oct 2007
Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Hence the importance of a Tsunami Alert System

Re-purposed Malaysian folk medication reduces resistance to chemotherapy - 01 Jan 2008
and some Pacific islands. It has been used in Malaysian folk medicine for generations

Antarctic Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread - 01 Jan 2008
Peninsula that is connected to Charcot and Latady Islands, had been stable

Typhoons bury a massive amount of carbon in the oceans - 01 Jan 2008
is buried offshore of mountainous islands such as Taiwan could help scientists make

America's first visitors may not have been from Polynesia, suggests new study - 01 Jan 2008
it to chickens living on Pacific islands from the same time period.  

Wild elephant seals to track changes in temperature of Antarctic seas - 01 Jan 2008
glue. Elephant seals breed on Antarctic islands, but forage for food

Rising seas may devour Britain's famous coastal landmarks - 01 Jan 2008
Islands off the Northumberland coast; the shingle spit of East Head

'Hobbits' were actually modern, normal-sized hunters and gatherers - 01 Jan 2008
in isolation and suffered from insular dwarfism on the islands 1,000 to 3,000 years ago

US opposes UN help in Benazir's assassination probe - 03 Jan 2008
Jan 03:  The White House on Wednesday rejected the need of United Nations in the probe of former premier Benazir Bhutto's assassination... to postpone the national election from Jan 8 to Feb 18, saying, â??it's decision

India relegated to Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Group II - 02 Feb 2008
Luangnam 6-4, 2-6, 6-2; Chan Yung-jan bt Tamarine Tanasugarn 6-4, 2-6, 6-1; Chan Yung-jan & Chuang Chia-jung bt Napaporn Tongsalee & Suchanun Viratprasert 6-3

Williams sisters move into doubles, Indian challenge ends - 05 Mar 2008
67th ranked Chan Yung-Jan of Taipei wi tha an identical scoreline of 6-2, 6-2...; Sanda Mamic (Cro) bt Yung Jan Chan (Tpe) 6-2, 6-2; Agnes Szatmari (Rou) bt Isha

World Environment Day: Global Warming and careless attitude - 05 Jun 2007
. The rising sea level will drown small islands and the large coastal areas

Safety overlooked lives of trees in Andaman - 26 Dec 2007
National Park, spread over 15 islands and rivulet and has a rich diversity of flora

India hosts 12th WCO conference - 14 Apr 2008
; Far East, South and South East Asia, Australasia and the Pacific Islands &bull

India asks UNWTO to be a self-guided tourism industry - 13 Jun 2008
Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) at Jeju Islands in South Korea today

Catholics declare "The Love Guru" "morally offensive" - 25 Jun 2008
of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands who jointly exercise certain

Ancient reptile would be condemned to single sex life by 2085 - 01 Jan 2008
population is now effectively trapped on about 30 small islands in New Zealand's north

Study links early Aussie tattoos to rock art - 01 Jan 2008
the Torres Strait, which is a collection of islands in tropical far northeastern

Wild orangutans are declining more sharply in Sumatra and Borneo than previously estimated - 01 Jan 2008
of orangutans, found only on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo, must be region

African dust clouds could be polluting oceans in the Caribbean and US - 01 Jan 2008
Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago has also revealed traces of pesticides

Tormented Agnetha Flatskog avoids ABBA bandmates at premiere - 01 Jan 2008
outlying islands for some years now, the 58-year-old star attended the Swedish film

Tormented Agnetha Flatskog avoids ABBA bandmates at premiere - 01 Jan 2008
outlying islands for some years now, the 58-year-old star attended the Swedish film

Scientists discover an indicator that can predict coral health - 01 Jan 2008
in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI).  By using genetic analyses, they were