Jakarta, Oct 10 (IANS) The death toll from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island last month has risen to 2,045, authorities said on Wednesday. Nearly 5,000 people were estimated to…
Bhubaneswar, Oct 10 (IANS) The Odisha government on Wednesday directed the Ganjam, Puri, Khurda, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara district administrations to evacuate all those areas where cyclonic storm Titli is expected to pass through after making…
Sydney, Oct 10 (IANS) Australia has a 70 per cent chance of being affected by the El Nino phenomenon by the end of the year, which would aggravate the severe drought suffered by several parts…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Hurricane Michael intensified to an “extremely dangerous” category 4 storm on Wednesday as it roared towards the US state of Florida, where it could blow ashore as the strongest storm to…
By Kushagra Dixit Lucknow, Oct 10 (IANS) The Uttar Pradesh government is set to chop about 55,000 trees in critical tiger habitats to build a road of strategic importance. According to a document accessed by…
United Nations, Oct 10 (IANS) Sikkim’s achievement in becoming the world’s first totally organic agriculture state has gotten it a place on the shortlist of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Future Policy Award….
New Delhi, Oct 10 (IANS) It was a misty morning in the national capital on Wednesday with minimum temperature recorded at 23 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. “The sky will remain clear…
Washington, Oct 10 (IANS) Hurricane Michael has strengthened to a category three storm, with winds near 193 kmph as it churns towards the Florida coast, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) of the US said. The…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Harsh Vardhan on Tuesday said that states should come up with more ideas and take initiatives to fight against climate change. “States…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday restricted the import of petcoke by the aluminium industry to 0.5 million tonnes and for the calcining industry to 1.4 million tonnes per year, making…
Chandigarh, Oct 9 (IANS) For maximum participation of government officials in the ongoing anti-stubble burning campaign, the Punjab government has issued instructions to its staff making them accountable for paddy-straw burning on land owned or…
Manila, Oct 9 (IANS) Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle are among the companies that contribute most to ocean pollution with single-use plastics, according to a study presented on Tuesday by the “Break Free from Plastic” initiative….
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Even as India has managed to increase its forest cover to over 20 per cent of its total geographical area, forest fires are a leading cause of degradation of the…
Dehradun, Oct 9 (IANS) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Tuesday flagged off the trial run of an electric bus here. The hill state aims to ply two fleet of 25 buses each on…
Jakarta, Oct 9 (IANS) Indonesian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll to 2,010 from the 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Sulawesi island on September 28. The official number of missing remained 671…
By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, Oct 9 (IANS) When Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh flew over Punjab and Haryana last week, he admitted he saw agriculture fields emitting plumes of smoke at several places — meaning…
Tokyo, Oct 9 (IANS) A rare white tiger has mauled a zookeeper to death in its enclosure at a zoo in Japan, an official said. The 40-year-old man was found bleeding from the neck in…
Beijing, Oct 9 (IANS) Two remote sensing satellites that will be used for electromagnetic environment surveys were successfully launched on Tuesday from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre. The satellites, both belonging to the Yaogan-32 family,…
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Tuesday morning in the national capital with minimum temperature recorded at 21.9 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average. “The sky will remain partly…
Canberra, Oct 9 (IANS) The Australian government has rejected calls from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to phase out coal-fired power by 2050. The landmark IPCC report on Monday warned that the…