Category: Environment

Telangana faces worst drought in living memory

By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, April 25 (IANS) Acute drinking water shortage due to drastic fall in water levels in major…

9 years ago

See if lawyers can be exempted from odd-even scheme: Delhi HC

New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Delhi government to consider if there is…

9 years ago

Heat wave: Odisha schools declare summer vacation

Bhubaneswar, April 25 (IANS) With the mercury showing no signs of subsiding, the Odisha government on Monday announced summer vacations…

9 years ago

Make your own auto fuel with used cooking oil

By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, April 25 (IANS) Do not throw away leftover cooking oil. You can convert it into biodiesel…

9 years ago

Manipur opens relief camps for rain-hit villagers

Imphal, April 25 (IANS) The Manipur government has started opening relief camps for villagers who were rendered homeless in the…

9 years ago

El Nino dry spell wreaks havoc in Myanmar

Nay Pyi Taw, April 25 (IANS) At least 10 regions of Myanmar are facing severe water shortagesdue to searing summer…

9 years ago

Fires claim 18 lives in Bihar since Sunday

Patna, April 25 (IANS) Eighteen people, including seven children and four women, died and about 2,500 houses were destroyed since…

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Kashmir remains cool at 20 degrees

Jammu/Srinagar April 25 (IANS) As sweltering heat torments residents in other parts of the country, Kashmir continued to remain cool…

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Cambodia to register five new forests as protected areas

Phnom Penh, April 25 (IANS) The Cambodian government is set to list five new forests with a total of about…

9 years ago

Partly cloudy morning in Delhi

New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Monday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 20.4…

9 years ago

Medicinal herb park in Ghaziabad ruined for marriage function

Ghaziabad, April 24 (IANS) A medicinal herb park here, maintained by the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), is being ruined by…

9 years ago

Odisha’s Titlagarh sees highest temperature in India

Bhubaneswar, April 24 (IANS) Titlagarh in Odisha on Sunday registered a maximum temperature of 48.5 degrees Celsius, the highest in…

9 years ago

Pre-monsoon floods hit Assam, over 40,000 affected

Guwahati, April 24 (IANS) Over 40,000 people have been affected and 1,000 hectares of cropland inundated by flood waters following…

9 years ago

NASA gears up for NextGen supersonic X-planes

Washington, April 24 (IANS) The US space agency is preparing to put in the sky an array of new experimental…

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Make efforts to conserve water, Modi tells people

New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pitched for water conservation efforts in the coming monsoon…

9 years ago

Delhi Zoo to have a butterfly park

By Archana Rao New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Home to over 1,300 animals and birds, the National Zoological Park in…

9 years ago

How insects find out diseased plants

London, April 24 (IANS) The leaves of virus-infected plants reflect light differently to attract the attention of disease-spreading greenfly, new…

9 years ago

People chip in to revive Dharam Sagar lake in Madhya Pradesh

By Sandeep Pauranik Panna, April 24 (IANS) A project to deepen Dharam Sagar lake in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh…

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Heavy rains damage Manipur houses, flood villages

Imphal, April 24 (IANS) Heavy rainfall has damaged many houses and caused flooding in low-lying villages in the northeastern state…

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I feel bad when Mahatma’s name is used for negative reason: Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee

By Ankush Vats New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi's grand daughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, who was recently conferred with…

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