The Indian government is to allow a new state to be carved out of part of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Home Minister P Chidambaram said the process of forming Telangana state would begin soon. Campaigners say the region has long been neglected.

Supporters of the state are celebrating after days of violent protests. One of their leaders ended a hunger strike.

But many in India fear acceding to the protesters' wishes could fuel demands for other new states across India.

India's 'Tiger of Telangana' feted Biswas: New states needed?

Dozens of Andhra Pradesh assembly members and at least one Indian MP with a seat in the state have announced they are resigning in protest at the move.

Analysts say the flurry of resignations, mostly from the governing Congress party, could lead to a political crisis in Andhra Pradesh.

MELT LAKE

Early in the twentieth century the prevailing notion was that people could alter climates locally, for example cutting down forests and ploughing fields, but not on a global scale.

A few pioneering thinkers suggested the increasing amount of pollution produced by Industrial revolution could cause global warming.

Thirty-one out of forty-seven African countries scored less than three out of ten in Transparency International's Perception Index Report for this year. Thirteen countries scored between three and five indicating that Corruption is perceived as a serious challenge. However three countries Botswana, Mauritius and Cape Verde scored more than five.Presenting this year's Report in Accra, the Executive - Secretary of the Ghana Integrity Initiative Local chapter of Transparency International said the overall picture of perceived corruption in Africa remains a serious challenge.

KABUL/NEW DELHI: Without naming Pakistan or its spy agency ISI, India on Saturday said the attack on its embassy in Kabul earlier this week was the handiwork of the enemies of India-Afghan friendship and their "patrons across the border".

NOBEL PRIZE

By Ed Henry CNN Senior White House Correspondent



WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Yes he can win the Nobel Peace Prize. Even on the same day that President Obama met with his war council yet again to consider sending up to 40,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

President Obama speaks about his Nobel award at the White House on Friday.

The confluence of events -- some might even call it irony -- was a stark reminder that this award was more about the promise of change than actual change. Peace is not at hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and while the president has articulated a new approach to the world it will be difficult to translate that vision into some actual victories.
"Even as we strive to seek a world in which conflicts are resolved peacefully and prosperity is widely shared, we have to confront the world as we know it today," Obama said in the White House Rose Garden. "I am the commander in chief of a country that's responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people and our allies."
Let me be clear that I don't buy into any of this silliness from some pundits about how winning such a prestigious honor could backfire on Obama. Becoming only the fourth U.S. president to ever win the Nobel can hardly be spun into a negative.
But it's important to note that the award does not create one job in the U.S. economy. It does not provide one Republican vote on Capitol Hill for the president's health care push. And the challenges are clearly not just on the domestic front.

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Nasa has been successful in its bid to bomb the moon in its search for water, with its LCROSS spacecraft smashing a rocket into the lunar surface earlier today.
Although we are yet to hear if there is actual water beneath the surface of the moon, Nasa streamed the whole explosive affair live on its Nasa TV service, showing workers for the space company whooping and clapping for joy when the empty rocket hit.
Travelling at speeds of 1.6 miles a second the rockets were propelled from Nasa's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Spacecraft (LCROSS), swiftly followed by a probe rocket.
The probe will be sniffing around to see if any

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Cyclone Aila strength eases off Some 100,000 people have been evacuated to safer places The cyclonic storm Aila hit the Indian city of Calcutta and nearby areas, killing more than 30 people, before weakening and heading north. It uprooted a large number of trees in the city, seriously hampering traffic. Meteorologists said the cyclone made landfall in south-western Bangladesh on Monday afternoon. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated in Bangladesh and India to temporary shelters after wind speeds of 70km/h to 90km/h were reported. The West Bengal state's disaster management minister Mortaza Hossain told the BBC that more than 100,000 people had become homeless. "We have rescued more than 100,000 people and send them to safer places. We are now arranging dry food packets and drinking water pouches for them," he said.

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By Linda Sandler and Christopher Scinta

May 2 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler LLC, the bankrupt automaker, may pay an estimated $200 million to lawyers and other professionals helping it try to create a more viable carmaker in partnership with Italy’s Fiat SpA.

The third-largest U.S. automaker already has paid Jones Day lawyers $18.9 million in retainers since November to avoid, and then prepare for, the company’s Chapter 11 proceeding, according to court documents. Lawyers, bankers and accountants may reap more than 10 times that amount in court-approved fees by the time the case ends, said Stephen Lubben, who teaches bankruptcy- law at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, and keeps a database on fees.

Chrysler, with about 54,000 employees, listed yearend 2008 assets of about $39.3 billion and liabilities totaling $55.2 billion in court documents. It aims to sell its best assets -- which include its Jeep brand and Dodge Ram pickups -- to Fiat, using bankruptcy law to wind up its liabilities.

The automaker’s lead lawyers at Jones Day, led by restructuring partner Corinne Ball, will charge Chrysler as much as $950 an hour, according to court filings. Ball’s billing rate as of April 2009 was $900 an hour, as was her colleague David Heiman’s, according to the filing.

Two Years

Lubben’s estimate, based on Chrysler’s reported assets and liabilities, assumes it may take two years to wrap up the Chrysler bankruptcy, he said.

A bankruptcy of Chrysler’s larger rival General Motors Corp., if it happened, would throw off double the amount of fees, he estimated.

Washington-based Jones Day has 2,400 lawyers in 32 offices around the world.

News from NASA

After four years of bold talk about focusing its return-to-the-Moon programme on a permanent international outpost at the Moon's southern polar Shackleton crater, NASA now suggests its plans may stop at less ambitions Apollo-style sorties.

In an extraordinary admission, the space agency's acting administrator Christopher Scolese told a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee on 29 April that it is still working on what "return to the Moon" meant. He described the options as an outpost, which he called "expensive", or extended sortie missions such as Apollo.

In 2005 NASA developed an architecture for outpost missions and has since spent billions of dollars developing its Ares I crew launch vehicle, Orion crew exploration vehicle and completed early work for its Altair lunar lander and Ares V cargo launch vehicle to enable an outpost.

The concept of seven-month missions for four crew with international involvement followed US president George Bush's 2004 vision for space exploration that envisaged a 2020 return to the Moon.

President Barack Obama wants a review of the space agency's "core mission" and this will take place once his administrator candidate is appointed, replacing Scolese. Scolese told the subcommittee he does not know who the candidate is.

Scolese was giving testimony to the US House of Representatives' commerce, justice, science, and related agencies appropriations subcommittee. The space agency's budget is incorporated into its annual appropriation bill. The fiscal year 2009 bill was passed in March. Scolese, previously associate administrator, has been acting administrator since the 20 January resignation of Bush's NASA appointee Michael Griffin.

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