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Jaguar unit helps lift Tata Motors

A continued pick-up in performance at its Jaguar Land Rover luxury car unit and strong sales of its commercial vehicles in its home market help Indian carmaker improve profits View full post on All Stories

Higher commodity prices for food and fuel a fact for the future

Linda Young – AHN News Writer New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Soaring commodity prices are wreaking havoc on consumer’s budgets here in the U.S., but experts say not to expect them to go down because the culprit is increased global demand for food and fuel. Increased demand from population growth in developing nations [...]

Subsidies not the only answer for Malawi’s farmers

EKWENDENI’ April (IRIN) – It is almost harvest time in Mzimba district, northern Malawi, but Saliet Nyasulu’s maize crop looks dry and stunted and it will be hard to feed herself and her three children this year. “[The maize] won’t last until next harvest,” she told IRIN. “I’ll have to do piece-work and grow some [...]

New push for water deals with Turkey and Syria

BAGHDAD, Iraq (IRIN) – Iraq is renewing efforts to reach deals with Syria and Turkey to increase water levels on the River Euphrates which flows from these two countries into Iraq, and on which Iraq is heavily dependent for agriculture and electricity generation. Turkey has tentatively agreed to increase water levels on the river to [...]

Supreme Court to decide states and private groups’ right to sue polluters

Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments April 19 in a case that will decide whether states and private groups can sue utilities for their greenhouse gas emissions. Additional legal briefs are due Monday in the case of American Electric Power [...]

Facebook investor purchases most expensive U.S. single family home

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor Los Altos, CA, United States (AHN) – A Russian billionaire has purchased what is reported to be the most expensive single family home in the United States. Yuri Milner is now owner of the massive $100 million, 25,500-square-foot ,Silicon Valley property. Milner, who made his fortune in Facebook, [...]

Food, fuel shortage hit Sendai, coastal areas

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Sendai, Japan (AHN) – On top of a risk of a nuclear meltdown, rescuing missing people and clearing destroyed homes and infrastructure, another problem facing the beleaguered Japanese government is the lack of food and fuel in Sendai and other coastal towns devastated by the Friday tremor and tsunamis. According [...]

Report: Alberta’s oil sands leaking contaminants in watershed

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Calgary, Alberta, Canada (AHN) – A panel appointed by Alberta to review the conflicting water quality data from the oil sands in the province concluded that contaminants are leaking into the watershed. The body also said that the government monitoring program is not adequate because it failed to gauge the [...]

Buffalo becomes second U.S. city to ban fracking

Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor Buffalo, NY, United States (AHN) – Buffalo became the second city in the nation on Tuesday to ban a method of natural gas drilling called fracking. The federal government the same day began its probe of how the drilling method affects drinking water. The Buffalo city council voted unanimously [...]

Innu agreement paves the way for $6.5-billion Hydro-Quebec power project

Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Montreal, Quebec, Canada (AHN) – Hydro-Quebec and aboriginal leaders belonging to the Innu community signed a $125 million compensation package Tuesday. The inking of the deal removes legal blocks to implement the power firm’s $6.5-billion La Romaine hydroelectric project. The $125 million deal is broken down into $80 million cash [...]