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Mullaperiyar dam unsafe: panel chief
Published December 2, 2008, 11:57 am, The Hindu
KOCHI: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Water Resources R. Sambasiva Rao has said the 113-year-old Mullaperiyar dam is unsafe. “We have found that the dam is not secure,” Mr. Sambasiva Rao told mediapersons on ...
Divers find Clinton man dead in Nashua River
Published December 2, 2008, 11:44 am, The Lancaster Times & Clinton Courier
Thirty-year-old Jeffrey Andrejczyk, who lived at 86 East St. in Clinton, was found dead in the North Nashua River around noon Dec. 2 by a dive team about 1.5 miles from Route 70.
Rio Tinto expected to take huge writedown on Alcan assets, say analysts
Published December 2, 2008, 11:27 am, MSN Money Canada
MONTREAL - Mining analysts expect global mining giant Rio Tinto (LSE:RIO) will take a huge writedown on its Alcan assets acquired last year for US$38 billion.
Rio Tinto expected to take huge writedown on Alcan assets, say analysts
Published December 2, 2008, 11:18 am, Canadian Business
MONTREAL - Mining analysts expect global mining giant Rio Tinto (LSE:RIO) will take a huge writedown on its Alcan assets acquired last year for
Major oil firms cut LPG price by P4 per kilo
Published December 2, 2008, 11:10 am, Manila Bulletin
Major oil companies Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation and Petron Corporation yesterday simultaneously announced a P4 per kilogram cut in the retail price of their liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) products that took effect at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, December 3.
STATES
Published December 2, 2008, 11:06 am, The Hindu
MAHARASHTRA: How can a soft state defeat the forces of terror? It was in 1964, while on a visit to India, that Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal called India a ‘soft state’. If Nehru’s India, with the then Congress having brute majorities in Parliament and State legislatures was a soft state, ...
INDUSTRY & ECONOMY
Published December 2, 2008, 11:05 am, The Hindu
EVENTS: Terror attack aftermath: Meetings, conferences grind to a halt CANCELLATIONS GALORE. India’s 26/11 seems to be going New York’s 9/11 way.
Thailand, air/15 nights, from $1,795
Published December 2, 2008, 10:56 am, Thailandnews.net
Round-trip international airfare, a local flight, 15 nights' accommodations, and no single supplement, from $1,795 per person—plus taxes of $90-$150, depending on departure city.
Mini heart attacks lessen damage from major ones
Published December 2, 2008, 10:29 am, PhysOrg
Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow to arteries prior to a heart attack lessens the damage caused, according to a study published today in the journal Cardiovascular Research. The new mechanism points to how future drugs could provide protection ahead of heart attacks and strokes for those at highest risk. In the nearer ...
Deal reached on San Joaquin River legislation
Published December 2, 2008, 10:22 am, AG Weekly
FRESNO, Calif. - Congress is on track to sign off on a deal to restore California’s San Joaquin River, bringing water and salmon back to a now-dry stretch of the waterway that once nourished the state’s farm fields, Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday.
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