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GAIA Case Study: India - Sustainable urban development
The Indian National Congress was founded. - 1919 British forces killed more than 400 Indians and wounded over 1200 in the Amritsar Massacre. - 1920-1921 Mahatma Gandhi introduced nonviolent tactics that ... was divided into the independent states of India and Pakistan. Jawaharlal Nehru became India's first prime minister. - 1974 India exploded an atomic bomb, altering the balance of power in South ...
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ETFRN NEWS 43/44: Forests and conflicts
The key problems are hardly understood due to the anecdotal nature of evidence and lack of empirical research. This restricts the prospects of drawing the attention of decision-makers and ... since the late sixteenth century there have been various periods of occupation and military confrontations. Since 1947, India and Pakistan, both claiming the whole of Kashmir, have fought two wars over ...
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NORMAN BORLAUG INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FELLOWS PROGRAM
Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award, for his lifetime contributions to improving international agriculture and global food security. Dr. Borlaug won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his success in developing high-yielding wheat varieties and reversing severe food shortages that haunted India and Pakistan in the 1960's. Credited with saving millions of lives, his ...
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CCICED: China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development
Kuala Lumpur First Secretary, Canadian Embassy, Malaysia, Burma, and Thailand, Resident in Malaysia & co-accredited to others 1959-62 Ottawa Desk Officer, Department of External Affairs, Responsible for relations with India and Pakistan 1956-58 Karachi Second Secretary, Canadian High Commission, Pakistan 1952-55 Saskatoon & Regina Archivist and Historian, Assistant Provincial Archivist & ...
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IWMI : Rechna-Doab Pakistan
However, the cropping intensities have drastically increased (up to 150%) due to massive ... link canals) that were initiated after the signing of the Indus Basin Treaty between India and Pakistan under United Nations/World Bank auspices in 1960. Agriculture The Rechna Doab falls in ...
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Frontiers and warfare
Soldiers loading artillery on the Siachen glacier (photo by Pakistan Military Consortium) Caught in the cross-fire Why are mountains more likely to suffer war? ... drawn. Mountains become battlegrounds when arguments over land, resources, or religion lead to war. India and Pakistan have been fighting for control of the high mountains of Kashmir for decades. The ...
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The family Deinotheriidae and genus Deinotherium
Jakob Kaup made a reconstruction imn a museum in Darmstadt with the tusks growing upwards, and he named the animal Deinotherium, the "terrible beast". Adrienne Mayor writes in The First Fossil ... . Deinotherium indicum Deinotherium indicum is the Asian species, known from India and Pakistan. It is distinguished by a more robust dentition and p4-m3 intravalley tubercles. D. indicum appears in the ...
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Climate Change and U.S. Security
China's huge population and food demand make it particularly vulnerable. It is hit by increasingly unpredictable monsoon rains, which ... Germany develop nuclear-weapons capabilities, as do Iran, Egypt, and North Korea. Israel, China, India, and Pakistan also are poised to use the bomb. The changes relentlessly hammer the world's ...
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India Geography 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System
Military Transnational Issues Maps Flags . Feedback =========== [TOP] India Geography 2000 Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan Geographic coordinates: 20 00 N, 77 00 E ... km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km Coastline: 7,000 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 ...
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India and Nepal - Intl Rhino Foundation, Conservation, Asia
Rhino Resource Center News Archives India and Nepal Greater one-horned, or Indian, rhinos were once found from Eastern Pakistan, through India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh, and into Myanmar. However, by ... improved significantly. The Bodo Tribal Council (the traditional local governing body) has committed to build and staff 13 new guard posts in the park, while the Government of Assam has agreed ...
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