BANGKOK, 8 January 2012 (NNT) – Chiang Mai Night Safari has announced its success in breeding another rare goat-antelope, which is one of Thailand’s 15 rare and endangered species. Chiang Mai Night Safari executive, Dr. Sarawut Srisakul, revealed that the zoo has successfully bred a female Serow, which came out on last Christmas Day. Before […]
Police are raiding illegal distilleries in eastern India, where the number of people who have died after drinking toxic home-brewed liquor has reached 170. At least 90 others in the Sangrampur area of West Bengal state remain critically ill. Local officials say 12 people have been arrested so far for allegedly making and distributing the […]
Indian authorities today declared an intent to force web companies to screen content for “offensive” and “blasphemous material”. The move follows failed talks yesterday with Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Communications Minister Kapil Sibal says “My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded”, and that web firms “will have to give us the data, […]
A court in Gujarat, India has convicted 31 Hindus of murdering 33 Muslims during a race riot by burning down the building they were sheltering in. The convicts were given life sentences, while lack of evidence saw more than 40 others cleared. The case dates back to 2002, when a train caught fire and 60 […]
Oh, RIM! It looked like things couldn’t get any worse, and then your messaging services go down for days. And right before the iPhone launch, too. BlackBerry owners will already know about it, but for the rest of you, BBM (BlackBerry Messaging) went down hard on Monday morning, and is still staggering along two days […]
Heavy rain and landslides are complicating the search for survivors of a 6.9 earthquake that has killed at least 53 people in an isolated Himalayan region straddling India, Nepal and China. The quake, centered in India’s northern state of Sikkim, killed at least 63 people and left many other missing. More than 5,000 Indian Army […]
Authorities in western India say at least 23 children suffering from a rare genetic disorder have tested positive for HIV after receiving tainted blood transfusions. Officials say the youngsters’ HIV status was discovered at Junagadh Civil Hospital where they were among at least 100 thalassemic children receiving regular transfusions.
Indian authorities say a terrorist attack outside the Indian high court in New Delhi killed at least nine people and injured 45 others. Police believe the explosive was placed inside a briefcase near a main gate to the high court in New Delhi. The blast is being described as a “medium-intensity bomb.” Injured were rapidly […]
