New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) An agreement to market the compost produced in Delhi was on Wednesday inked between the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFS) and National Fertilisers…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday announced new building bye-laws for Delhi. Revised after 33 years, the laws have been made “user-friendly through unification and simplification of…
Ujjain, March 30 (IANS) Apart from making security and other arrangements ahead of the Simhasth Kumbh here in April-May, authorities have roped in snake experts to catch the reptiles and release them in the wild…
Tokyo, March 30 (IANS) Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on Wednesday approved the use of an underground “wall of ice” at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant to help contain spills of contaminated water into the…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) It was a clear Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 23.8 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain partly cloudy with mist or haze…
Bhopal, March 29 (IANS) A tigress and her two cubs have been found dead under mysterious circumstances at the Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday. After a post-mortem examination of…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction will be held here in November, an official statement said on Tuesday. It would be the first such conference after the 3rd…
Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) Indian school students, participating in an international exchange programme between US’ Chabot Space & Science Center and Science City in Kolkata, have designed prototypes for purifying hospital air, generating electricity from…
Mathura, March 29 (IANS) Union minister Maneka Gandhi, who is also a wildlife activist, on Tuesday spent some time with elephants rescued from illegal captivity at the Elephant Conservation and Care Centre in Mathura. Thanking…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday said CNG vehicles will remain exempt from restrictions during the second phase of odd-even traffic scheme which starts from April 15 while the other exemptions…
By Deepa Padmanaban Findings of a new Indian Institute of Science study that used satellite-borne sensors, compared images over decades and modeled past and future growth reveal the rate of urbanisation in four Indian cities….
Los Angeles, March 29 (IANS) Fungi will be sent for the first time to the International Space Station for the development of medicine, said researchers at the University of Southern California (USC). The experiments, to…
Phnom Penh, March 29 (IANS) Cambodian authorities on Tuesday seized 102 elongated tortoises and 17 pythons from a truck which was on its way to Vietnam. Police stopped the truck some 20 km from capital…
New York, March 29 (IANS) The formation of a distinct pattern of sea surface temperatures in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean can predict an increased chance of summer heat waves in the eastern…
London, March 29 (IANS) In a first, researchers in Scotland are using smartphone-based technology to find the reason behind plummeting numbers of harbour seals in the country. Part of a three-year study by researchers at…
Abu Dhabi, March 29 (IANS/WAM) The UAE’S National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) has urged motorists to exercise caution, reduce the speed and leave enough distance between vehicles because of dust storm. The statement…
Canberra, March 29 (IANS) Evidence that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record has renewed calls for the United Nations to list it as “in-danger”, media reported. Australia’s National Coral…
New York, March 29 (IANS) Rising levels of nitrogen pollution in the atmosphere can threaten and harm plant diversity, warns a new study. Nitrogen plays an important role in biological processes and makes up a…
Jakarta, March 29 (IANS) A satellite observation on Tuesday detected that the number of forest hotspots in Indonesia has risen to 40 from 13 on March 18, with most of them in Sumatra island, an…
Washington, March 29 (IANS) Arctic sea ice appears to have reached a record low winter-time maximum extent for the second year in a row, according to NASA scientists. The new record low follows record high…