Agra, May 30 (IANS) River activists here on Monday organised “sand bath” to draw attention towards lack of water in the Yamuna river and green insect threat to the Taj Mahal. Scores of activists associated…
Panaji, May 30 (IANS) Banning diesel cars is a “senseless direction” and bereft of scientific merit, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday. Speaking at the inauguration of a state-of-the-art garbage treatment plant at Saligao…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Delhi residents on Monday got a respite from the hot weather due to intermittent pre-monsoon showers and weather analysts predict this situation will continue for two days at least. As…
Moscow, May 30 (IANS) Raising the safety standards in nuclear power plants remains a top priority for all operators, says the director of World Association of Nuclear Power Plants, an organisation formed after the Chernobyl…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Bad weather is hampering evacuation of pilgrims from the Nepalganj-Simikot-Hilsa route of the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, the government said on Monday. Due to bad weather, only a limited number of…
Panaji, May 30 (IANS) Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on Monday that garbage management is one of the major scams in India but is still not being probed by the government auditors because of the…
Chhatarpur, May 30 (IANS) The drought-affected Bundelkhand region is well on its way to becoming another Rajasthan desert if drought and silting of arable land is not arrested soon, ‘Waterman’ Rajendra Singh has said. “Large…
Lhasa, May 30 (IANS) The Tibetan government is planning to establish a new nature reserve in 88,000 hectares of wetland, an official said on Monday. It will be established in the Mitika wetland in Lhari…
By Sheikh Qayoom Sonamarg (Jammu and Kashmir), May 30 (IANS) “Where is Sonamarg? All I see is a concrete jungle of bricks and iron.” The remarks by a local visitor summed up the destruction brought…
Canberra, May 30 (IANS) Mass bleaching has killed 35 percent of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the world’s largest coral system, according to a report released on Monday. Experts from James…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) It was a rainy Monday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 23 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season’s average, weather officials said. “The skies…
Lucknow, May 30 (IANS) At least 12 people were killed across Uttar Pradesh (UP) due to storms, lightning and heavy rains, an official said on Monday. According to the official, two people were killed in…
Jaipur, May 29 (IANS) The plane of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was returning to the capital after a function in Karnataka, was diverted here on account of bad weather in Delhi and stayed for…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Delhi residents got some respite from heat on Sunday after a rainy morning with maximum temperature coming down four notches below average to 36.7 degrees Celsius mark for the first…
Panaji, May 29 (IANS) Malnutrition and pollution of water resources are a problem which the state government needs to address at the earliest, Goa Governor Mridula Sinha said in her address to the state ahead…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) The Environment Ministry has lifted the CEPI moratorium from the industrial cluster of Chandrapur in Maharashtra — one of the most polluted cities in the state — to pave way…
New York, May 29 (IANS) The success of a global renewable energy project on Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago has given a major boost to the idea of sustainable development, according to a report. Meeting 30 percent…
Beijing, May 29 (IANS) At least eight tourists were killed in flash floods in south China’s Guangdong province, the government said on Sunday. The tourists were rafting in a river in Jiangmen city when they…
By Ashish Mishra Raipur, May 29 (IANS) Arti Rawte, an 11-year-old tribal girl from Dhobni village of Maoist-hit Rajanandgaon district in Chhattisgarh, used to wake up at four every morning — not to study but…
By Vikas Datta It is the time of the year when people across the sub-continent start to look beseechingly at the skies for the season to end the tyranny of a scorching sun in leaden…