Mines & Demining

Army foils mine blast in Assam

Guwahati, Nov. 23: The Army claimed to have averted a major tragedy on Monday when it detected a powerful landmine planted on the road approaching to frontier state of Arunachal Pradesh through northern Assam’s Sonitpur...

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Biohacked bacteria possibly useful for landmine detection

Neat idea from students at the University of Edinburgh , who claim to have used Tom Knight's BioBricks technology to produce a strain of bacteria that are bioluminescent in the presence of explosives or explosives residue. The...

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Nigeria: Bombs Detonation - Consultant Threatens to Pull Out

Unless urgent arrangements are made to release funds to continue the demining and detonation of bombs and dangerous explosives as well as the detonation of several weapons already exposed by the Ministry of Defense, the project...

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US: Ban Landmines

Source: Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC) - The United States should commit to join the international treaty banning antipersonnel landmines when it attends a milestone meeting of the agreement beginning November 29, 2009, ...

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What US travel advisory signifies

n government to expedite their resettlement. More than one half of them have already returned home and the government is sanguine about resettling all IDPs either by the end of January 2010 or even by the end of this year. But,...

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Landmine targeting army convoy detected in Assam

A major tragedy was averted in Assam Monday with security forces detecting a powerful landmine planted on a road used by army convoys to reach the Chinese border along the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said.

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Three personnel killed in landmine blast

RANCHI: Three security personnel were killed and nine injured when Maoists triggered a landmine blast at Lapu in Jharkhand’s Gumla district on Sunday. The security forces were on an anti-naxal operation when a landmine blew up ...

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Maoist triggered landmine kills two troopers in Jharkhand

From correspondents in Jharkhand, India, 06:00 PM IST Two troopers were killed and nine injured Sunday when Maoist rebels blew up their vehicle by detonating a landmine in poll-bound Jharkhand, police said. The mine exploded...

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First Person: Three GIs

Rehab wasn't just a matter of healing our injuries In October 1976 I was working at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Durham, N.C. Earlier that fall I had joined an adult soccer league and in my first game I hyperextended...

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Landmines killed 3,000 Indians in 10 years

Some 3,000 Indians, mostly in Jammu and Kashmir, have been killed in landmine explosions over the past 10 years, according to an NGO working for a world free of antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions.

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