Aizawl, May 4 (IANS) Deaths of more than 250 pigs have been reported due to Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) in Mizoram’s Champhai district, bordering Myanmar. “Officials from the animal husbandry and veterinary department…
London, May 4 (IANS) Labradors are more prone to being overweight in comparison to other breeds and scientists have now identified genetic variation that causes obesity in these dogs. According to researchers, in developed countries,…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) The government on Wednesday said the monsoon is expected to hit Kerala by May-end or early June and that a formal forecast may be issued by May 15. “Climatologically, monsoon…
London, May 4 (IANS) Amid fears that the fastest land mammal is racing to extinction, researchers including one Indian, have suggested that the current estimates of the number of cheetahs in the wild are at…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) There is absolutely no truth or scientific reasons that the radiation from mobile towers and handsets has an adverse health impact on human and other living creatures, the government said…
Beijing, May 4 (IANS) Taiwan’s forestry and police authority is investigating the alleged poisoning of six protected indigenous macaques, including two that were pregnant, media reported on Wednesday. An adult female macaque was found dead…
Srinagar, May 4 (IANS) The respite from the heatwave in Jammu and Kashmir is likely to continue on Wednesday as the Met office forecast light rains would occur at most of the places in the…
United Nations, May 4 (IANS) An Andhra Pradesh project to collect very specific climate data from farms and give farmers personalised information through SMS has won the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2016…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 27.6 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would…
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) Lok Sabha has passed the much talked about Compensatory Afforestation Fund bill, 2015 that seeks to establish setting up of a National Compensatory Afforestation Fund and also a State Compensatory…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Providing relief to students of the national capital from the scorching heat, the Delhi government on Tuesday ordered all government and private schools to advance their summer vacations to May…
Gurgaon: Diesel cab owners block traffic on NH8 to protest against Supreme Court ban on diesel vehicles in Gurgaon on May 2, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Commuters in Delhi continued to…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) People of Delhi and its neighbourhood on Tuesday got a little relief from the scorching heat as the maximum temperature dropped by about four degrees Celsius. But hot weather conditions…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday asked for suggestions from taxi unions before presenting its detailed phase-out plan for diesel cabs before the Supreme Court on Thursday. “We called a meeting…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday in a notification directed all schools of the city to observe mandatory summer vacation from May 11 in the wake of sweltering heat. “The Directorate…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) With a drop of four degrees Celsius in temperature, the weather office on Tuesday forecast relief from scorching heat for Delhi and the national capital region. The temperature is likely…
Hyderabad, May 3 (IANS) Six more people died after being hit by lightning as thunderstorms lashed parts of Telangana on Tuesday. Four people died of lightning strike in Karimnagar district, while two others were killed…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) The air pollution took a downward dip during the first 10 days of the Odd-Even scheme but registered a sudden spike from April 22 onwards possibly due to farm fires…
Bhubaneswar, May 3 (IANS) There is no sign of relief from the heat wave in Odisha with most of the state still reeling under the scorching sun and 16 places recording temperatures above 40 degree…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to immediately declare drought as a “national emergency” in view of the rising numbers of children in…