Sydney, April 20 (IANS) Extensive aerial and underwater surveys have revealed that coral bleaching has affected 93 percent of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Surveys of 911 individual reefs showed damage ranged from severe to minor…
Canberra, April 20 (IANS) An Australian dog, the world’s oldest, died at the age of 30 in southwest Victoria, owner of the dog said on Wednesday. The kelpie, called Maggie, was found dead by her…
London, April 20 (IANS) Human limbs share a genetic programme with the respiratory organs of fishes such as sharks and skates, reveals a new research, providing evidence to support a century-old, widely discounted theory on…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, has announced the 12th edition of Open House which will be held on April 23 in its vicinity. Over 500 research projects and 80…
Washington, April 20 (IANS) Three solar observatories have captured the most comprehensive observations of an electromagnetic phenomenon called a “current sheet”, strengthening the evidence that the understanding of solar flares is correct. A “current sheet”…
New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.3 degrees Celsius, five notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. “The sky would…
Washington, April 20 (IANS) March was the 11th consecutive month a monthly global temperature record was broken, the longest such streak since record-keeping began in 1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar, who will be leaving for New York to ratify the Paris ‘COP 21 Global Climate Agreement’, on Tuesday hinted that India could raise the issue of…
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai inspects trail of implementation of odd-even formula begins in New Delhi on Dec 31, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The fifth day of the…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The fifth day of the Delhi government’s odd-even traffic scheme saw Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai declaring it a “success story so far” even as online app-based taxi operator Uber…
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) Biodiversity ecologist Uma Ramakrishnan, a scientist at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) who is working to save the country’s tigers, has become the first Indian to win the Parker/Gentry…
Hyderabad, April 19 (IANS) Telangana and parts of Andhra Pradesh continue to reel under intense heat wave conditions, officials said on Tuesday. The met department has issued heat wave warning for both the states over…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the government will announce in two or three days a premium air-conditioned bus service. “It will be a fully air-conditioned premium bus…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The central government will invest Rs.800 crore to rejuvenate lakes in Bengaluru, especially the Bellandur lake, the largest and most polluted water body in the Karnataka capital, union Environment Minister…
Shimla, April 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the central and state governments on the issue of declaring monkeys as vermin within the Shimla Municipal Corporation’s jurisdiction. A division…
Pyongyang, April 19 (IANS) North Korean foreign Minister Ri Su-yong on Tuesday left for the UN headquarters in New York to join the signing ceremony of Paris climate agreement. The report said Ri led a…
New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged youth organisations to contribute to the efforts made for water conservation and cleanliness in the country. Modi said that massive effort would be made…
New Delhi: Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai inspects trail of implementation of odd-even formula begins in New Delhi on Dec 31, 2015. (Photo: Sunil Majumdar/IANS) New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai…
Imphal April 19 (IANS) Rain and thunderstorm, as forecast by the weather office, hit most of the northeastern states from early Tuesday. At several places tin-roofed houses, shops and other facilities were flattened by the…
Bhubaneswar, April 19 (IANS) The Odisha government on Tuesday extended school holidays till April 26 due to the prevailing heat wave conditions in the state. Earlier, the state government had announced closure of schools till…