Ottawa, Oct 6 : Climate scientists have said that the melting of the Arctic ice this year has been ‘fascinating’ and ‘alarming’.

According to a report in the Vancouver Sun, so much ice had melted by the end of August 2008 that it was possible for the first time in human history to circumnavigate the North Pole, prompting one prominent U. S. scientist to say that the ice cap has entered a “death spiral.”

Victoria general practitioner and local sports personality, Daniel Archie Buie, 65, has been restricted from medical practise for kissing a patient. 

The B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons also exposed, that Buie had to withdraw from practice in March 2007 as, he hugged a patient in 2006, and in 2007 he hugged and kissed the same patient besides making unprofessional and inappropriate comments.

Buie was active in the local sports community. At one time he was the team physician for the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League, before the club moved to Prince George in the early 1990s. Buie graduated from the University of B.C. in 1969.

TATA group owned TATA Steel has bought 19.9 percent stake in New Millennium Capital, a leading Canadian miner which deals in exploration and development of iron ore properties. 

The company controls 9.1 billion tonnes of NI 43-101 taconite mineral resources in Canada and is listed with TSX Venture Exchange. The deal worth Rs 106 crore was signed between Tata Steel Global Minerals Singapore and New Millennium on Wednesday.

Washington, Oct 3: Fossils excavated in Pipestone Creek, Alberta, Canada, have revealed a new dinosaur species that perished in a catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago.

The animals are characterized by a bony frill on the back of the skull ornamented with smaller horns. They also had large bony structures above their nose and eyes which lends them their name: Pachyrhinosaurus (thick-nosed lizard).

These structures probably supported horns of keratin.

According to Dr. Philip Currie, renowned palaeontologist and Canada Research Chair of Dinosaur Palaeobiology from the University of Alberta who was involved in the excavation, Northwest Alberta was not previously known for dinosaur material.

Tata Steel, the world’s sixth-largest steel maker has informed that its Singapore-based wholly owned indirect subsidiary ‘Global Mineral Holdings’ has entered into a binding agreement with New Millennium Capital Corporation (NML).

Canada-based NML is a publicly owned mining company, which involves in exploration and development of iron ore properties. It operates 9.1 billion tonnes of NI 43-101 taconite mineral resources – 6.9 billion tonnes measured and indicated and 2.2 billion tonnes inferred.