New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) To increase the green cover of the national capital, the Delhi government will plant five lakh trees and shrubs on September 8, Environment Minister Imran Hussain said on Friday. Hussain…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Delhi electricity distribution company (discom) BSES on Friday announced it is augmenting its fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) with the addition of 11 electric cars as part of the company’s…
San Francisco, Aug 31 (IANS) The Harvard University has teamed up with Google to develop a machine learning-based model to predict aftershock locations post a quake. It may help in the deployment of emergency services…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 31 (IANS) A high-level delegation led by a Kerala minister will travel to various Middle East countries and other nations to source funds for rebuilding the state in the wake of this month’s…
Dehradun, Aug 31 (IANS) The Met office on Friday sounded an alert for heavy rains in most parts of Uttarakhand in the next three days, officials said. Heavy to very heavy rains have been predicted…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy sky in the national capital on Friday with the minimum temperature recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. “It will be…
Lucknow, Aug 31 (IANS) Heavy showers early on Friday brought the Uttar Pradesh capital to a standstill. Hundreds of school children were left stranded at various places due to water logging. Setting off from home…
New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Common house cleaning methods may not always give you clean air to breathe. Combat indoor air pollution with smarter ways to remove hidden dust in surfaces and corners. Mukesh Khare,…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 30 (IANS) Asking public and private insurance companies to quickly settle claims filed by the flood-affected in Kerala, Union Minister of State for Finance Pon Radhakrishnan has said that the Centre will consider…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy on Thursday apprised Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh of the losses due to floods in parts of the state and sought central financial assistance of…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) With India having 14 of the 20 most polluted cities of the world, the NITI Aayog on Thursday said there was a need to change the entire nature of Indian…
Kathmandu, Aug 30 (IANS) Stating that all countries of Bimstec seek peace and prosperity, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that this will be possible only if there is connectivity in all forms…
Suva (Fiji), Aug 30 (IANS) Fiji’s weather office on Thursday announced a meteorological drought for the country after some parts did not receive rain for 10 weeks. According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji’s Director of…
Mumbai, Aug 30 (IANS) Tata Power Solar said on Thursday that it has commissioned an 820.8 kilowatt power (kWp) solar rooftop project at the historic Cricket Club of India stadium in the city. The project…
Lucknow, Aug 30 (IANS) Heavy rain lashed Lucknow and the neighbouring regions on Thursday, disrupting normal life. Water-logging was also reported from many parts of the city, leading to inconvenience for the people. It also…
Shimla, Aug 30 (IANS) The World Bank has approved in principle a financial assistance of Rs 929.89 crore for a water supply and sewerage project for the state capital, Himachal Pradesh Urban Development and Country…
Jammu, Aug 30 (IANS) Landslides in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ramban district blocked the strategic Jammu-Srinagar highway again on Thursday, officials said. Traffic department officials said fresh landslides in Battery Chashma area of Ramban district disrupted…
Sydney, Aug 30 (IANS) Australia’s national weather agency, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), has predicted that the drought conditions in the country will continue. In its 2018 Spring Outlook released on Thursday, BoM has forecast…
New Delhi, Aug 30 (IANS) Individual city, region and company commitments in India could reduce emissions to 225-255 MtCO2e/year by 2030, more than the emissions generated by the country’s industrial processes in 2014, a new…
By Rajendra Shende Twenty years ago, in August 1998, then Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji proposed, in a meeting of China’s State Council, a total ban on logging in the forest slopes of Sichuan province….