Srinagar, Dec 27 (IANS) Srinagar witnessed the coldest night of the season as the city shivered at minus 7.6 degree Celsius, the Met Office said on Thursday. After December 7, 1990, when the minimum temperature…
Dehradun, Dec 27 (IANS) Extreme cold wave conditions continued to prevail in most parts of Uttarakhand as the temperature plummeted to sub-zero level in more than six towns in the state, an official said on…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) In order to conserve the river Yamuna, Union Minister for Water Resources Nitin Gadkari will lay foundation stones for eleven projects under the Namami Gange Programme by National Mission for…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) After four consecutive days of “severe” air pollution, Delhi’s air quality improved to “very poor” and according to the weatherman, it is likely to remain in the same zone for…
Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) A one-horned rhino was found dead with its horn chopped off at Gorumara National Park in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district and three people were arrested, an official said on Wednesday. “The…
Jakarta, Dec 26 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Wednesday raised to 430 the death toll in the devastating tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption in Sunda Strait, while nearly 22,000 people were displaced. Indonesian National Board…
Tokyo, Dec 26 (IANS) Japan on Wednesday announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) conservation body and said it will resume commercial whale hunting from July 2019, a move that is likely to…
Shimla, Dec 26 (IANS) Enormous icicles surfaced in large parts of the Himachal Pradesh capital with the minimum temperature remaining close to sub-zero on Wednesday, the Met said indicating the onsst of a harsh winter…
Palermo (Italy), Dec 26 (IANS) A 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday hit Sicily around Europe’s most active volcano Mount Etna, injuring at least two people, Italian media reported. The earthquake struck at 3.19 a.m. near Viagrande,…
Tokyo, Dec 26 (IANS) Japan on Wednesday announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) conservation body and that it will restart commercial whaling from July, 2019. Commercial whaling was banned by the IWC…
Srinagar, Dec 26 (IANS) A low intensity earthquake, measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, occurred in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the Met said, adding no reports of casualty or damage was received. The quake…
New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) It was a bitter cold morning in the national capital on Wednesday as the mercury dipped to 3.6 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average — the lowest so…
Jammu, Dec 26 (IANS) As a cold wave intensified across Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, Jammu city recorded the season’s coldest night at 3.5 degrees Celsius, the Met said. In the Ladakh region and valley,…
Jakarta, Dec 26 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Wednesday resumed the search for 154 people missing after a tsunami hit the Sunda Strait coasts as the country commemorates the anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami…
Chandigarh, Dec 25 (IANS) Amritsar city recorded a low of 0.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday as cold wave conditions prevailed across the plains of Punjab and Haryana in the past 24 hours. The minimum temperatures…
N0ew Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) As the national capital battles ‘severe’ air quality, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) reported a surge in the number of patients visiting the hospital with cardiac and…
Jakarta, Dec 25 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll in the deadly tsunami triggered by a volcanic eruption in Sunda Strait to 429, with search and rescue teams struggling to find survivors…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) The residents of national capital had no respite from bad air quality even on Christmas as Delhi continued to remain under ‘severe’ air pollution on Tuesday for the fourth consecutive…
Jerusalem, Dec 25 (IANS) Researchers have developed a new sustainable biopolymer technology to make bioplastic polymers which may one day free the world of its worst pollutant, finds a new study. The process to make…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) At least four trains were cancelled and 12 delayed due to heavy fog in several parts of northern India, railway officials said. According to Northern Railway, four trains departing from…