1310 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/how-genetics-is-settling-the-aryan-migration-debate/article19090301.ece?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_SyndicationThe thorniest, most fought-over question in Indian history is slowly but surely getting answered: did Indo-European language speakers, who called themselves Aryans, stream into India sometime around 2,000 BC – 1,500 BC when the Indus Valley civilisation came to an end, bringing with them Sanskrit....Fri, 16 Jun 2017 20:58:00 +0200Hindu-77bf4dd99992693490f887ba30d274a520170616205800http://www.sundaytimes.lk/170604/editorial/disaster-mismanagement-and-self-respect-243520.html“The drought came first, heaping untold misery upon man and beast. The deluge followed and, with it, a sweeping landslide. A succession of environmental disasters in recent years has proved that Sri Lanka remains ill-equipped to mitigate threats and save precious lives, if anything, the country is racing towards bigger catastrophes.Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:32:00 +0200sundaytimes-75e2b0bd7c971340283b40a7805b08b320170603213200https://tribune.com.pk/story/1424312/not-penny-proposed-nfpp-budget/ISLAMABAD: The federal government has not allocated a single penny for the National Flood Protection Plan (NFPP) 2015-25 in the recently announced federal budget 2017-18 despite the fact that countless precious lives have been lost and hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered homeless in....Thu, 01 Jun 2017 07:04:00 +0200tribune-6a6a083b60226253379279854863d24120170601070400http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/world/death-toll-in-sri-lanka-mudslides-floods-climbs-past/article_f2b05625-65a0-5e4a-a49f-9eafae541632.htmlIndian soldiers unload supplies to be used in relief operations from NS Jalashwa Indian Navy ship, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Tens of thousands of people marooned by severe flooding and mudslides in Sri Lanka remained in relief camps Tuesday, as aid teams bolstered by Indian Navy....Wed, 31 May 2017 15:46:00 +0200siouxcityjournal-47ea59dd7adeaf8d37ae86a3a4f5e6b820170531154600