Brussels, Oct 17 (IANS) The European Commission and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, an investment fund led by Microsoft Corporation co-founder Bill Gates, launched on Wednesday a joint project to foster innovation in the energy sector in…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 17 (IANS) The death toll due to cyclone Titli and subsequent floods in Odisha has increased to 57 and the damage is estimated at Rs 2,200 crore, said an official on Wednesday. Chief…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) As Delhi’s air quality inches fast towards the “very poor” category, Environment Minister Imran Hussain on Wednesday released NASA satellite’s recent images of north India which showed stubble burning at…
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) The death toll from last week’s Hurricane Michael, that battered the Florida Panhandle, has been raised to 29, with rescuers still searching for the missing in the hardest-hit areas. The toll…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Arulagam, International Fund for Animal Welfare and Panthera — three organisations of the 76 to receive grants from the Disney Conservation Fund (DCF), work in India. DCF awards $5 million to…
Mumbai, Oct 17 (IANS) Actor Suniel Shetty has come out in support of a campaign to save man-eating tigress Avni from being killed. The “Hera Pheri” actor on Wednesday tweeted: “Chasing and killing a mother…
By Biswajit Choudhury Karcham (Himachal Pradesh) Oct 17 (IANS) The recent heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh and an abnormal rise in the Satluj river’s silt levels — forcing the temporary closure of major hydro projects…
New Delhi, Oct 17 (IANS) It was a pleasant morning in the national capital on Wednesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 19.2 degrees Celsius, average for the season. “The sky will remain mainly clear…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to frame guidelines to regulate burning of effigies of Ravana and bursting of firecrackers during Dussehra, but it refused to…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday imposed a fine of Rs 50 crore on the Delhi government for not taking action against illegal, polluting steel-pickling units in the national…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Hours after the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday imposed Rs 50-crore fine on the Delhi government for not acting against polluting steel pickling units in the residential areas of…
Nagpur (Maharashtra), Oct 16 (IANS) The Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench on Tuesday admitted a PIL that sought a stay on plans to kill a ‘man-eater’ tigress and instead capture her alive, a wildlife activist…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 16 (IANS) The Odisha Congress on Tuesday demanded that the state government should pay Rs 10 lakh ex gratia to the family members of each deceased in the cyclone and subsequent floods. Pradesh…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) Conservationist Nisha Bora on Tuesday accused Padma Bhushan recipient artist Jatin Das of sexually harassing her at his Khidki village studio in 2004, which Das refuted as “ridiculous and vulgar”….
The Hague (Netherlands), Oct 16 (IANS) On the heels of one of the deadliest summers of climate-related weather disasters affecting countries all over the world, a gathering of global leaders on Tuesday launched the new…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 16 (IANS) The Odisha government on Tuesday confirmed that the death toll in the very severe cyclonic storm Titli and subsequent flooding in the state has increased to 26, while 57 lakh people…
Chandigarh, Oct 16 (IANS) In a major initiative to clean up drains, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has constituted a special task force to free the Budha nallah or drain of polluting effluents in a…
By Amit Kapoor In a curious happenstance last week, two global events put the spotlight on the critical issue of climate change. First, the United Nations’ scientific panel on climate change issued a landmark report…
By Disha Shetty Bengaluru, Oct 16 (IndiaSpend/IANS) As the effects of climate change on livelihoods become more pronounced, especially for people involved in agriculture and fishing in South and South-East Asia, support for rebel groups…
New Delhi, Oct 16 (IANS) It was a pleasant morning in the national capital on Tuesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 18.5 degrees Celsius, one notch below the season’s average. “It will be a…