Hyderabad, July 28 (IANS) Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman on Saturday accepted the green challenge to plant saplings under Haritha Haram, the massive plantation programme of Telangana government. In separate tweets, they acceped…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday held an emergency meeting with the Chief Secretary and the Flood Control Department on the possibility of flood in the national capital due…
Jaipur, July 28 (IANS) Flowers offered at the dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishti in Ajmer city in Rajasthan will be used for making organic compost, the shrine’s management said on Saturday. Two recycling…
Bhubaneswar, July 28 (IANS) The Odisha government on Saturday decided to issue a Request for Proposal (RfP) for a port to be set up on Mahanadi river in Kendrapara district. The meeting of high-level clearance…
Washington, July 28 (IANS) A raging wildfire in California has killed two firefighters and prompted 38,000 evacuations, destroying scores of homes and threatening other dwellings and businesses. The blaze, known as the Carr fire, started…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Tens of thousands of skywatchers across the country sat watching for the longest “blood moon” of the century on Friday night, but many in the North were disappointed as they…
New Delhi/Chandigarh, July 28 (IANS) The authorities in Delhi on Saturday began to evacuate hundreds of people living in the Yamuna catchment area as a flood threat loomed following a sharp rise in the river’s…
Shimla, July 28 (IANS) A woman pilgrim from Pune in Maharashtra was washed away and three other persons were reported missing in a flashflood triggered by heavy rains in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on…
New Delhi/Bengaluru, July 28 (IANS) Tens of thousands of skywatchers across the country burned the midnight oil on Friday night for the longest “blood moon” of the century but many in the north were disappointed…
Raigad (Maharashtra), July 28 (IANS) At least 10 passengers were killed when a private bus carrying nearly three dozen university staff plunged into a ravine in Raigad district of Maharashtra on Saturday morning, an official…
Chandigarh/New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) With heavy rains continuing in neighbouring Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, authorities in Haryana’s Hathnikund barrage on Saturday released excess water into the Yamuna river, posing a flood threat to New…
Shimla, July 28 (IANS) With heavy rainfall continuing, most roads in Himachal Pradesh remained closed to traffic on Saturday, stranding travellers and commuters. The worst affected were Sirmaur and Kullu districts. The Mandi-Pathankot National Highway…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Water released from Haryana’s Hathnikund added to the continued rains have led the Yamuna river to breach its danger-level mark here on Saturday. Preparations are now on to evacuate people…
Lucknow, July 28 (IANS) At least 37 people have been killed in rain-related incidents in Uttar Pradesh in the past 48-hours since Thursday, an official said on Saturday. Rains have continued to batter many parts…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) It was a cloudy morning in the national capital on Saturday with the minimum temperature recorded at 25.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, said the Met office….
Los Angeles, July 28 (IANS) A new study by scientists with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service suggests that what people tweet in areas affected by wildfire can be a reliable indicator of…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Following incessant showers over the past two days, the national capital has achieved surplus rainfall this year of around 13 per cent, according to Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). “Monsoon has…
Ghaziabad, July 27 (IANS) The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) has woken up, finally! But not before collapese of houses killed several persons, rains washed away a road, flats were evacuated for fear of more building…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) More than 10 acres of agricultural land, on which paddy was sown, sank in Surajpur village in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, on Friday following a downpour. Farmers…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) As many as 36 cows were found dead in a cowshed here on Friday, police said. The Delhi government has ordered a “detailed” probe and sought a report within 24…