Make your own auto fuel with used cooking oil
By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, April 25 (IANS) Do not throw away leftover cooking oil. You can convert it into biodiesel in a microwave and use that to run your car. Turning cooking oil into auto…
Environment
Manipur opens relief camps for rain-hit villagers
Imphal, April 25 (IANS) The Manipur government has started opening relief camps for villagers who were rendered homeless in the recent torrential rains and thunderstorms, an official said on Monday. Official reports said that in…
El Nino dry spell wreaks havoc in Myanmar
Nay Pyi Taw, April 25 (IANS) At least 10 regions of Myanmar are facing severe water shortagesdue to searing summer temperatures brought on by El Nino, leading to dried up wells, ponds and rivers. The…
Fires claim 18 lives in Bihar since Sunday
Patna, April 25 (IANS) Eighteen people, including seven children and four women, died and about 2,500 houses were destroyed since Sunday in various incidents of fire in Bihar with heat wave playing its part, officials…
Kashmir remains cool at 20 degrees
Jammu/Srinagar April 25 (IANS) As sweltering heat torments residents in other parts of the country, Kashmir continued to remain cool at 20 degrees Celsius, a weather official said on Monday. Most locals in the Valley…
Cambodia to register five new forests as protected areas
Phnom Penh, April 25 (IANS) The Cambodian government is set to list five new forests with a total of about 950,000 hectares in the country’s protected forest areas, officials said on Monday. “This clearly shows…
Partly cloudy morning in Delhi
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Monday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 20.4 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. The sky would…
Medicinal herb park in Ghaziabad ruined for marriage function
Ghaziabad, April 24 (IANS) A medicinal herb park here, maintained by the Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA), is being ruined by a private marriage function and officials, despite assurances of action, are yet to take any…
Odisha’s Titlagarh sees highest temperature in India
Bhubaneswar, April 24 (IANS) Titlagarh in Odisha on Sunday registered a maximum temperature of 48.5 degrees Celsius, the highest in the country, while 17 other places recorded above 40 degrees, as people continued to reel…
Pre-monsoon floods hit Assam, over 40,000 affected
Guwahati, April 24 (IANS) Over 40,000 people have been affected and 1,000 hectares of cropland inundated by flood waters following pre-monsoon rains for the past one week in Assam, officials said on Sunday. Four districts…
NASA gears up for NextGen supersonic X-planes
Washington, April 24 (IANS) The US space agency is preparing to put in the sky an array of new experimental aircraft — known as X-planes and intended to carry on the legacy of demonstrating advanced…
Make efforts to conserve water, Modi tells people
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pitched for water conservation efforts in the coming monsoon so as to avert water shortages faced, this…
Delhi Zoo to have a butterfly park
By Archana Rao New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Home to over 1,300 animals and birds, the National Zoological Park in Delhi is gearing up to bring significant changes, including through plantation of more exotic trees…
How insects find out diseased plants
Japanese Beetle on apple (Credit:University of Maine Cooperative Extension ) London, April 24 (IANS) The leaves of virus-infected plants reflect light differently to attract the attention of disease-spreading greenfly, new research suggests. Plant viruses alter…
People chip in to revive Dharam Sagar lake in Madhya Pradesh
By Sandeep Pauranik Panna, April 24 (IANS) A project to deepen Dharam Sagar lake in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh has elicited a heart-warming response from the public, promising to become a model of volunteerism…
Heavy rains damage Manipur houses, flood villages
Imphal, April 24 (IANS) Heavy rainfall has damaged many houses and caused flooding in low-lying villages in the northeastern state of Manipur, officials said on Sunday. Also, thunderstorm accompanied by hails battered Manipur and several…
I feel bad when Mahatma’s name is used for negative reason: Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee
By Ankush Vats New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Mahatma Gandhi’s grand daughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, who was recently conferred with a top French honour for her contribution in the field of environment, education and culture,…
How baby birds learn to fly early
New York, April 24 (IANS) Despite having extremely underdeveloped muscles and wings, young birds may acquire a mature flight stroke early in life by initially relying more on their legs and wings for power, finds…
Clear Sunday morning in Delhi
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) It was a clear Sunday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 19.9 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky will remain…
Asked for change in modalities for paying compensation: AoL
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) The Art Of Living Foundation, which was imposed an initial environment compensation of Rs.5 crore over use of the Yamuna flood plains for an event, on Saturday reiterated that it…