New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Taking cognizance of reports of heavy traffic during odd-even phase two, the Delhi government on Saturday formed a six-member panel to study the reason for more vehicles on the roads….
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Both gaseous and particle pollutants violated the standards in Delhi on Saturday, while the condition was way too grim on Thursday which was International Mother Earth Day, experts say. According…
New York: Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar and union Power Minister Piyush Goyal during the Paris climate change agreement signing ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 22, 2016. (Photo: Mohammed…
Itanagar, April 23 (IANS) Two people died in a fresh landslide on Saturday in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh, taking the death toll in two days to 19, officials said. Union Minister of State for…
New Delhi: A view of traffic at ITO on the fifth day of implementation of odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi on April 22, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 23…
Bhubaneswar, April 23 (IANS) There was no respite from the blistering sun on Saturday as 18 places in Odisha recorded temperatures of over 40 degrees Celsius, officials said. The government received reports of 37 deaths…
Shimla, April 23 (IANS) At a time when many states in India are reeling under a severe heat wave, some high-altitude areas of Himachal Pradesh are witnessing teeth-chattering cold. Most of the hill destinations in…
Kolkata, April 23 (IANS) A severe heat wave will hit three districts in West Bengal in the next four days while state capital Kolkata will experience sultry conditions, weather officials said on Saturday. “In Bankura,…
Imphal, April 23 (IANS) Leery of fencing work along Indo-Myanmar border, a committee of about 40 villages in Manipur has announced it will not allow any government official or work inside their area. “No government…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 23 (IANS) International support through sharing expertise and experiences and by providing financial assistance is essential for climate change projects to succeed, said Ajay Mathur, director general of The…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 23 (IANS) Investors and corporate boards can be convinced to make green investments by showing them the value of tangible and intangible future returns, industrialist Mahendra Singhi has said….
By Mohit Dubey Lucknow, April 23 (IANS) If forty degrees centigrade is the new thirty today, consider April to be the new May-June. Or so says the rising mercury, which indicates that the sweltering heat…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 23 (IANS) The historic Paris Climate Change Agreement signed by India and 174 other countries affords “business a chance to redeem itself from the trust deficit” bedeviling it, according…
Srinagar, April 23 (IANS) Weather will improve across Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday onwards as light rains were forecast by Met office on Saturday. “There would be overall improvement in weather across the state from…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) It was a sunny Saturday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 23 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the season, the weather office said. “The sky will…
New York: Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar addresses during the High-level Thematic Debate on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in New York on April 21, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB)…
United Nations, April 23 (IANS) Representatives from 175 countries met on Friday at the UN to sign the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and made clear the urgency of taking action to stop global warming….
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 22 (IANS) The historic climate change agreement was ceremonially launched Friday with 171 countries lining up to sign the document that US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon hailed as a…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Ambassadors, high commissioners, and diplomats from 34 countries gathered at a park here on Friday and planted tree saplings to mark the ‘International Mother Earth Day’ and to laud the…
Women cover their faces to avoid direct contact with sun on a hot day. (File Photo: IANS) Bhubaneswar, April 22 (IANS) Several parts of Odisha continued to reel under severe heat wave conditions with 15…