New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The Congress on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “betraying the people of Varanasi” by failing to clean Ganga as promised, saying that pollution level in the river has…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Delhi government on Friday approved a number of key projects to improve the water and wastewater services provided by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) in the city. One of the…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) The Delhi government on Friday said it has built 22,000 community toilets in the national capital since the Aam Aadmi Party came to power in the city in 2015. Urban…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Keeping in view the unprecedented floods in Kerala, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed with the Disaster Management sub-committee that the water level at Mullaperiyar dam be maintained at 139.99…
Mumbai, Aug 24 (IANS) The first-ever Humboldt penguin, born in Mumbai zoo last week, died here two days ago, an official said here on Friday. Hatched on August 15, the penguin died on August 22…
Shimla, Aug 24 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday said that the state had suffered a loss of Rs 990.54 crore due to monsoon rains that also claimed 35 lives. “The…
Johannesburg, Aug 24 (IANS) An international team of paleontologists have found how a meat-eating species of dinosaurs, that share many similarities with birds, lost their fingers. The fossil specimens of “Xiyunykus pengi” and “Bannykus wulatensis”,…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit Andaman Islands on Friday, said the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). According to the IMD, the earthquake occurred at 4.19 p.m and…
Sabarimala (Kerala), Aug 24 (IANS) The Indian Army is set to build two bailey bridges near the Sabarimala temple to facilitate the pilgrims’ return to the temple town, the authorities said on Friday. The the…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 24 (IANS) With the state government cancelling the Onam celebrations, it is unlikely that Kerala households within the country or overseas will witness any festivities this year ignoring the huge loss of life…
By Saket Suman Thimphu, Aug 24 (IANS) The mystery surrounding the Himalayan Yeti attracts scores of explorers ever year to the snow-capped mountains, but few return with answers. Daniel C. Taylor, who has spent about…
Chennai, Aug 24 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Friday said Kerala government was giving “wrong information” about Mullaperiyar dam so that the water storage level does not go up to 152 feet….
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, Aug 24 (IANS) The iconic Chadwick falls in the ‘Queen of Hills’, a tourist hotspot in the once summer retreat of the British Raj for nearly a century until India’s independence,…
Kodagu (Karnataka), Aug 24 (IANS) Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday visited the flood-hit Kodagu district and assured the people of Indian Army’s help in rebuilding the devastated region’s roads. “I can assure you that…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) With more than a million people displaced by flooding in Kerala, Britain-based charity Christian Aid on Friday warned that more devastating floods in India will become the norm if nothing…
Shimla, Aug 24 (IANS) For the first time in over 60 years, Dharamsala, the abode of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, on Friday recorded the highest precipitation on a single day in a month,…
Washington, Aug 24 (IANS) NASA is launching a laser-armed satellite next month that will measure — in unprecedented detail — changes in the heights of Earth’s polar ice to understand what is causing ice sheets…
New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) It was a cloudy morning in the national capital on Friday and the minimum temperature was recorded at 27.2 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average. “The sky will…
Brasilia, Aug 24 (IANS) An isolated Amazonian tribe with no known contact with the outside world has been spotted for the first time by a drone flying over the Brazilian jungle. The country’s National Indian…
Honolulu, Aug 24 (IANS) Hurricane Lane Hurricane Lane was downgraded to a category-3 storm as it moved near Hawaii, after already dumping heavy rains and causing landslides in some areas of the island, the US…