By Rajendra Shende If you Google “Edmund Hillary” you will get seven million references to his summitting Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay in 1952. But when you Google “George Mallory”, who made a gallant effort…
San Francisco, Nov 18 (IANS) The death toll from the devastating wildfires in California has increased to 78 with 1,276 people still unaccounted for, authorities said. As of Saturday evening, there were 76 deaths and…
Canberra, Nov 18 (IANS) An Australian man died after it was attacked by a stingray off a beach in Tasmania, the first known fatality of its kind in the area, authorities said on Sunday. The…
Shimla, Nov 18 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday saw a slight rise in the temperature due to prevailing dry weather with the Met Office forecasting dry weather to continue in the coming…
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) The national capital on Sunday witnessed a misty morning with air quality remaining in the ‘very poor’ category for two days straight. The minimum temperature was recorded at 11 degrees…
Srinagar, Nov 18 (IANS) Kargil town was the coldest in the Kashmir Valley at minus 9 degrees Celsius on Sunday while the minimum temperatures across the region around the freezing point, the weather office said….
San Francisco, Nov 18 (IANS) US President Donald Trump on Saturday visited the area devastated by a wildfire that has been spreading in northern California since last week, together with California Governor Jerry Brown, whose…
Gandhinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said on Saturday that Gujarat was now on the threshold of ending its perennial water scarcity with the launch of a major desalination project to treat as…
Bengaluru, Nov 17 (IANS) A 10-member inter-ministerial central team (IMCT) began visiting 17 drought-hit districts across Karnataka for spot assessment of the losses incurred by farmers and the people, an official said on Saturday. “The…
Chennai, Nov 17 (IANS) The death toll due to cyclone Gaja, which hit Tamil Nadu’s coastal districts on Friday, has increased to 33, Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters at Salem,…
London, Nov 17 (IANS) Strategies that animals like lions, tigers and penguins use to find food can put their own lives in danger, a study says. According to researchers from the UK’s Swansea University, animals…
Jakarta, Nov 17 (IANS) Seven people were killed and more than 8,000 others fled their homes as landslides and quakes struck Indonesia’s West Sulawesi province, officials said on Saturday. The victims died during evacuation, Pasamboan…
By Nitya Kaushik Mumbai, Nov 17 (IANS/Monggabay) In November 2012, a tigress and her two cubs began a journey from their home in the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh. She had somewhat uncharacteristically left the…
By Porni Banerjee New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) Installing air purifiers in your homes and offices may, to some extent, help combat the impact of deadly air on your respiratory and circulatory systems; but the…
Shimla, Nov 17 (IANS) Majority of Himachal Pradesh reeled under severe cold on Saturday, with the minimum temperature staying below freezing point owing to this week’s snow and rainfall, weather officials said. The state capital…
New Delhi, Nov 17 (IANS) The national capital on Saturday witnessed a misty morning with deteriorated air quality which was recorded in the ‘very poor’ category, after being ‘poor’ since Thursday. The minimum temperature was…
Jammu/Srinagar, Nov 17 (IANS) The minimum temperatures across Jammu and Kashmir dropped on Saturday due to a clear night sky, the Met Department said. “The minimum temperatures dropped further across Jammu and Kashmir today due…
San Francisco, Nov 17 (IANS) The destructive California wildfires have so far killed at least 74 people with over 1,000 reported missing, authorities said. Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea said on Friday evening…
Bhubaneswar, Nov 16 (IANS) The Odisha government has asked the power distribution companies (discoms) to disconnect power supply in elephant corridors during the movement of pachyderms, said an official on Friday. The direction of the…
Mumbai, Nov 16 (IANS) Peeved over the massive fallout of the killing of tigress Avni (T1), Maharashtra Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar on Friday said he has decided to withdraw from the reconciliation efforts for an…