Srinagar, June 29 (IANS) Incessant rains during the last two days have swollen rivers, streams and other water bodies in the Kashmir Valley while flood was declared in south Kashmir on Friday, an official said….
Bhubaneswar, June 29 (IANS) The Odisha government on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) for effective management of disasters, officials said. The government also signed…
Chennai, June 29 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Friday announced allocation of Rs 100 crore towards mitigation of floods here. He told the assembly that during the monsoon season, residential localities near…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Residents of the national capital are likely to enjoy a pleasant climate till July 3 as monsoon arrived in Delhi on Thursday, a day ahead of the expected date, the…
Mumbai, June 29 (IANS) The Shiv Sena on Friday warned that the upcoming Nanar refinery-petrochemicals complex in Maharashtra’s Ratnagiri would prove to be “a poisonous gas chamber and lead to a genocide of the Konkan…
Tokyo, June 29 (IANS) A powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s Osaka region has damaged a microscope with the highest resolution in the world, an official said on Friday. The high voltage tank of the Ultra-high…
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) It was a pleasant morning in the national capital on Friday with an overcast sky and the minimum temperature recorded at 27.9 degrees Celsius, season’s average. “The sky will remain…
Bali, June 29 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Friday closed the airport in the resort island of Bali amid volcanic ash spewed from Mount Agung which erupted a day earlier. The Ngurah Rai international airport will…
Jammu, June 29 (IANS) Heavy rains slowed down the progress of Amarnath Yatra pilgrims as authorities allowed only a small batch of 856 yatris from here to move towards the valley on Friday to avoid…
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) The much-awaited monsoon arrived in Delhi on Thursday, a day ahead of the expected date, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The city enjoyed its first monsoon showers that sent…
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) Delhi’s ruling AAP on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has only repackaged the whole redevelopment project in the city, involving cutting down of over 17,000 fully grown trees, while…
Chandigarh, June 28 (IANS) Following rainfall over the region on Thursday, maximum temperatures dropped at most places across Haryana and Punjab giving relief to people from heat wave conditions prevailing in the past few days….
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused the BJP and the AAP government in the capital for cutting down thousands of trees in the past four years, calling it “madness”….
New Delhi, June 28 (IANS) Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh have been identified as the two predictable states to be the top hotspots that are likely to experience a decline of more than nine per cent…
Shimla, June 28 (IANS) The southwest monsoon advanced over almost the entire Himachal Pradesh on Thursday and there are chances of more showers in next four days, the weather bureau here said. “The monsoon, which…
By Vishal Gulati Da Nang (Vietnam), June 28 (IANS) The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Assembly, the organization’s highest governing body, concluded on Thursday with a commitment to support the partnership of multi stakeholder coalitions, including…
By Bhanu Sridharan Bengaluru, June 28 (IANS/Mongabay) Most rivers in South India begin as small streams in forested mountains. The Western Ghats are filled with such streams. As they flow downhill they join other streams…
Srinagar, June 28 (IANS) Hours after bad weather along both north and south Kashmir routes on Thursday halted the Amarnath Yatra, it resumed following improvement in weather around afternoon. Authorities allowed pilgrims to move towards…
Sydney, June 28 (IANS) A massive 18-tonne whale was removed from an Australian beach on Thursday, with authorities fearing the animal would soon explode. At almost 13 metres long, the female humpback became stranded at…
Chandigarh, June 28 (IANS) The Haryana government on Thursday issued an alert for moderate to heavy rainfall in some parts of the state till Saturday. The Met department has forecast the monsoon would enter Haryana…