Patna, Oct 3 (IANS) Bihar’s first solid waste processing site, which will convert organic waste into compost fertiliser, was inaugurated in Muzaffarpur district, officials said on Wednesday. Inaugurating the new facility late on Tuesday, Bihar’s…
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday conferred the ‘Champions of the Earth’ award by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at a special ceremony in the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra here. Modi…
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IANS) Actor Arjun Kapoor says youngsters today are more aware and conscious about having cleanliness. Arjun was addressing the media at the fifth edition of NDTV-Dettol’s Banega Swachh India Cleanathon 2018 along…
New Delhi, Oct 3 (IANS) It was a sunny Wednesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.5 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average. “The day ahead will be…
Mexico City, Oct 3 (IANS) Hurricane Rosa has reduced to a tropical depression west of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula but is still generating dangerous weather, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) has said. The SMN on…
Nairobi, Oct 3 (IANS) The UN has called on African governments to re-strategise their programmes against deforestation and environmental degradation. Elsie Attafuah, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)’s Africa Regional Technical Advisor for UN REDD,…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) India wants to create a robust ecosystem for the manufacture of solar panels in the country to give a filip to the sector which can provide opportunities for investments worth…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The CBI has registered a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) in its probe into alleged collusion of the forest department officials in all cases of tiger deaths and poaching reported from protected…
Jaipur, Oct 2 (IANS) Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on Tuesday inaugurated the city’s ‘Dravyavati River Rejuvenation Project’ executed by Tata Projects Ltd. spread over 47.5 km rain-fed riverfront. The area had degenerated into an untreated…
Attari (Punjab), Oct 2 (IANS) Nearly 20,000 people took the ‘Swachhata Hi Sewa’ pledge at the Retreat ceremony at Attari, nearly 30 km from Amritsar, on Tuesday evening to commemorate the birth anniversary of Father…
Bengaluru, Oct 2 (IANS) A host of events ranging from plog run, operation clean-up, spinning the charkha (wheel) and a photo expo marked the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in this tech hub on Tuesday….
Palu (Indonesia), Oct 2 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll to 1,347 in the devastating 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Sulawesi island last week even as the survivors grew increasingly…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) India has so far achieved around 93 per cent of sanitation coverage and will be Open Defecation Free (ODF) in a couple of months, said the Founder of Sulabh International,…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the Narendra Modi government believed in Mahatma Gandhis vision on sanitation and was working to realise it. “Gandhi ji said that sanitation is…
Shimla, Oct 2 (IANS) Deliberations on ecological, social and economic drivers of change will mark the Sustainable Mountain Development Summit VII to be held here from October 3 to 5, organisers announced on Tuesday. Integrated…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Tuesday embarked on a humanitarian relief mission to help Indonesia that has been hit by an earthquake and tsunami in which more than 1,200…
San Francisco, Oct 2 (IANS) Google will contribute $1 million (nearly Rs 7 crore) towards relief and restoration work in Indonesia which was hit by a 7.5-magnitude quake and an ensuing tsunami that has claimed…
New Delhi, Oct 2 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that Swachh Bharat Mission has turned into the worlds biggest mass movement on sanitation and has given a mantra of 4Ps for a…
Manila, Oct 2 (IANS) At least 300 million people in the Asia-Pacific region have no improved access to water, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) said on Tuesday. “About 300 million people in the Asia and…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 2 (IANS) The Odisha government enforced a ban on the use of plastic in six cities of the state on Tuesday, coinciding with the 149th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. A ban on…