New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The government on Wednesday agreed to form a select committee to scrutinise the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment) Bill but confusion remained whether it would be passed…
Panaji, July 25 (IANS) The Panaji bench of the Bombay High Court has issued notices to Mormugao Port Trust, South West Port Ltd (SWPL), Adani Mormugao Port Terminal, Vedanta and others following a public interest…
Athens, July 25 (IANS) The death toll in the worst forest fires in Greece in more than a decade increased to 80 on Wednesday as rescue workers intensified efforts to locate the missing. The death…
Shimla, July 25 (IANS) The country’s two mega hydropower plants in Himachal Pradesh were temporarily shut down on Wednesday, owing to a rise in the level of the silt content in the Satluj river, disrupting…
New Delhi,, July 25 (IANS) State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has chosen US petroleum technology major Honeywell UOPs Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) technology to supply high-quality hydrogen at its refineries, Honeywell announced on Wednesday. The…
Agra July 25 (IANS) Even as the UP government and Agra district officials struggle to stitch together a “patch work quilt” called a Vision Document for the eco-sensitive Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ), to submit before…
Dhaka, July 25 (IANS) Five persons, including four children, were killed in two major incidents of rain-triggered mudslides in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district, police said on Wednesday. The children — three girls and their only…
Hyderabad, July 25 (IANS) The Hyderabad High Court has impleaded 17 public representatives including a MP and eight state legislators of Andhra Pradesh for alleged violation of the court orders banning cockfighting. Thotha Narasimham, a…
Kampala, July 25 (IANS) Stating that India has deepened its partnership and engagement across the vast expanse of Africa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday charted out 10 principles of his country’s engagement with…
Vientiane, July 25 (IANS) Rescuers are searching for survivors after an under-construction hydroelectric dam collapsed in Laos on Tuesday, leaving at least 19 people dead and over 3,000 still to be rescued, media reports said…
Panaji, July 25 (IANS) The Justice M.B. Shah Commission’s estimate of Goa’s mining scam being a whopping Rs 35,000 crore is based on a wrong survey and its real extent is unlikely to be more…
Panaji, July 25 (IANS) Two of the three blockades, built on water diversion conduits by the Karnataka government along the Mhadei river, have been removed and water is already being diverted from the Mhadei river…
Khartoum, July 25 (IANS) Between seven and ten people have been killed in heavy rains and floods across Sudan that have also led to the collapse of a large number of buildings, media reported. “At…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) The Global Climate Action Summit, taking place in September in San Francisco, has announced inclusion of China’s Special Representative for Climate Change Affairs Xie Zhenhua as its fifth Co-Chair. Mahindra…
New Delhi, July 25 (IANS) Rains lashed Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Wednesday with the minimum temperature being recorded at 28 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average, the Met said….
Dehradun, July 25 (IANS) A “heavy to very heavy rain” alert was issued on Wednesday in Uttarakhand for the next 48 hours by the Regional Met Office. After a brief respite on Tuesday, the skies…
Bengaluru, July 24 (IANS) Software major Wipro would work with the Karnataka government to fight air pollution in the state, especially Bengaluru, said an official statement on Tuesday. “Wipro Chairman Azim Premji assured Chief Minister…
Bhubaneswar, July 24 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday launched the ‘Green Mahanadi Mission’, a plantation drive under which 2 crore saplings will be planted along the Mahanadi river and its tributaries. The…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government, in its first draft report of its ‘Vision Document’ on protection and preservation of the Taj Mahal submitted on Tuesday before the Supreme Court, suggested that…
New Delhi, July 24 (IANS) The Delhi Cabinet on Tuesday approved a scheme under which farmers in the national capital can lease out part of their agricultural land for setting up solar panels for additional…