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Shell announces retreat from Arctic drilling Royal Dutch Shell has announced its plans to cease drilling off Alaska  “for the foreseeable future” ,  partly because of high costs of exploration, and  “the challenging and unpredictable federal regulatory environment in offshore Alaska” . Marvin Odum, director of Shell Upstream Americas added,  “Shell continues to see important exploration potential in the basin, and the area is likely to ultimately be of strategic importance to Alaska and the US. However, this is a clearly disappointing exploration outcome for this part of the basin.”

Modi calls for bridging digital divide SEPTEMBER 27, 2015 |  EDIT Ahead of meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama tomorrow, US Ambassador to India Richard Verma said that one-on-one interactions between the two leaders in a year has “renewed” the momentum between the two largest democracies of the world. He told a group of Indian reporters in San Jose, India-US relationship has now encompassed so many areas from strategic to economic to clean energy, infrastructure and smart cities and health. He said, it is important that the two of them get together to take stock of the progress that has been made and where they want to take the relationship from here. Ambassador Verma further remarked that Modi has made a “real strategic and economic commitment” to the US and Obama has made a similar commitment as well. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Saturday said his company will take lost-cost broadband technology to some five lakh vil...

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF PEOPLE’;S MOVEMENTS National Office :  6/6 Jangpura B, New Delhi – 110 014 . Phone : 011 2437 4535 | 9818905316 E-mail: napmindia@gmail.com | Web :  www.napm-india.org Uttar Pradesh Government Continues Forcible Land Acquisition in Name of Development Release Medha Patkar, Amarnath Bhai and 14 Other Detained Activists Now Withdraw false Charges Against Dr. Chandra Patel and immediately release 42 farmers, including 13 children languishing in jail since September 9 Allahabad / New Delhi  : Once again the Uttar Pradesh government has shown its anti people face by curbing free movement, detaining activists, arresting protesting farmers, including children, and levelling false charges, all in the name of development. The wounds of police firing on people protesting against the construction of Kanhar Dam have not healed and yet again UP government has resorted to repression against people protesting destruction of their livelihood. Late last ...