India started the first moon mission on Wednesday. The probe "Chandrayaan-1" started in the early morning schedule of the South Indian Satish Dhawan Space station. It will be in five days to reach the moon.
The booster rocket PSLV with the unmanned lunar probe "Chandrayaan-1" started at 6:22 local time (2.52 clock EDT) from the base of Sriharikota. "This is a historic moment. We began our journey to the moon", said the president of the Indian Space Agency ISRO, G. Madhavan Nair, under the applause of the engineers in Sriharikota. The probe aims to explore the surface of the moon.

In a bomb attack in the northeastIndian city Imphal were killed 17 humans after police sources at least and 30 were injured. On Tuesday evening eleven people had been dead immediately, as the huge bomb - hidden in a scooter - near a police station in the capital of the state of Manipur exploded, informed the police on Wednesday. Six other humans died in hospitals at their injuries.

In the state of West Bengal demonstrators attacked buses and power lines to. At least 300 people were arrested. In Calcutta (Kolkata) thousands of people have demonstrated violently against high food prices. They threw stones at buses, broke the windshields of cars with sticks and collapsed with banana peel the power in the overhead lines.

outside of Goa there are still many untouched beaches. Between Bombay (Mumbai) and Goa peace seekers, tourists, travelers and vacationers will find many kilometers pristine coastline and untouched beach paradises. In small coastal towns like Ganapatipule, Tarkarli or Vengurla-Malvan there are still undeveloped coastline and beaches with crystal clear water and white sand. Accommodations partly for self-supporter are available on the "MTDC Resort in Tarkarli. Nearby is the famous Lake Fortress Sindhudurg.

In a series of bomb in the northwestern Indian tourist city of Jaipur on Tuesday evening, 35 people were killed and around 100 others wounded are at least.
5-7 bombs exploded within half an hour in the center of the popular tourist city of Jaipur in Rajasthan state. In the areas concerned, which lie close together, panic broke out. The Indian capital New Delhi and the economic metropolis of Bombay were alert. The government called the population to be quiet an peacefull.
The Interior Ministry in New Delhi spoke of a terrorist attack. The PTI news agency reported that one of the explosives was exploded in a market where many people had gathered at a temple of the Hindu god Hanuman. Hanuman pilgrims celebrate their God on Tuesday. Another bomb exploded in a shop, a further in a car.
In India Muslim and other extremist attacks again. The bombs exploded in the "Pink City"

More and more tourists return back from Goa with malaria. On careful protection against mosquitoes in the evening and night hours must be watched. If you get fever, please consult immediately a doctor. A general drug prophylaxis is still not recommende. An appropriate tropics or travel-medical consultation is recommended before the journey starts

In India an entire city pink was painted, in order to tune humans more peacefully and lower the crime rate. " We hope that the calming and beautiful pink color makes the city more attractive and strengthens the positive thinking of the inhabitants ",
said spokesman Arvind Kumar Singh from the town of Aurangabad in the eastern state of Bihar to the news agency AFP.

Whether the crime rate has actually fallen, he could not yet say:
" The program has only just begun, let's see how it works. "

24 million people in Myanmar are suffering from the effects of Cyclone "Nargis", at least one million people are homeless. Catastrophic conditions in the Irawadi River Delta. Many people died, their corpses rot in the streets.

Million people lost their gods by the Hurrican Disaster im Birma ( Myanmar ). "Million of people are homeless, reported Andrew Kirkwood from the organization Save the Children, by telephone from Rangoon. Save the Children is one of the few organizations that the military regime alowed to stay. Kirkwood complained about the lack of cooperation of the junta. Although urgently supplies at auxiliary workers and assistance are needed, the aides continued to wait in Bangkok for their visas

Kirkwood reported catastrophic conditions particularly in the Irawadi River Delta, the worst-affected region. In one of the most remote places his team had seen thousands of deaths - "mountains of corpses" on the streets rotted. Were also worrying reports from Pyinkaya, one counted 150,000 inhabitants, barely accessible location in the southwest of the delta. There was as yet no help arrived, the dying were themselves.

India is booming and hungry at the same time