No NGT stay on AoL event
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday did not stay spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living’s World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains but slapped an initial…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Wednesday did not stay spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living’s World Culture Festival on the Yamuna floodplains but slapped an initial…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Japanese researchers have discovered that a species of swallowtail butterfly from Australasia has at least 15 different classes of light-detecting cells comparable to the rods and cones in the human eye….
London, March 9 (IANS) Overturning long held views that the origin of vertebrates with legs triggered an increase in the anatomical diversity of their skeletons, new research has found that limbs of the earliest vertebrates,…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) As many as 2,561 people remain missing five years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, the National Police Agency said. Based on data compiled as…
Tokyo, March 9 (IANS) Over 12,000 aftershocks were felt in the coastal areas of Japan since a powerful earthquake struck the region in March 2011, the Meteorological Agency said. Quakes that are considered aftershocks of…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) Clamor grew louder on Wednesday against Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s cultural mega-extravaganza on the ecologically sensitive Yamuna floodplains with the opposition questioning how the government deployed the Indian Army to…
By Sheikh Qayoom Srinagar, March 9 (IANS) Hundreds of migratory birds are bidding an early adieu to Kashmir this year because of unusually hot temperatures and scant rain and snowfall. “Normally, the migration back to…
Sydney, March 9 (IANS) Humans have triggered the past record-breaking hot years experienced on the Earth since 1930s, says a study that suggests that without human-induced climate change, recent hot summers and years would not…
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The national capital experienced shallow fog on Wednesday morning, with the minimum temperature settling at 19.2 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain clear in the day…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) Even as controversy rages over the decision by Art of Living to hold a cultural mega-event on the Yamuna floodplain, founder of the educational and humanitarian movement Sri Sri Ravi…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) India will witness a solar eclipse on Wednesday morning, the first in 2016 but it will only be briefly visible in the national capital, said the IMD. “The solar eclipse…
Beijing, March 8 (IANS) Beijing is planning to build thousands of charging stations in 2016 for electric vehicles. Around 15 large charging facilities will be opened in service stations on the expressway and 5,880 smaller…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) A green court in Delhi on Tuesday deferred its decision on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s cultural mega-extravaganza on the ecologically fragile Yamuna flood plains, amid fresh controversy over Indian Army…
Patna, March 8 (IANS) Another tigress was found dead in Valmiki tiger reserve in Bihar’s West Champaran district on Tuesday, officials said. “It was possibly poisoned to death by wildlife smugglers,” said an official. The…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Art of Living Foundation on Tuesday told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it did not conduct any environment impact study before deciding to hold the World Culture Festival…
Ranchi, March 8 (IANS) Legislators in Jharkhand on Tuesday expressed concern over the rising menace of the wild elephants in the state and suggested a elephant-zone be developed in the state. The issue was raised…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Indian Army’s decision to make pontoon bridges for the Art of Living Foundation’s upcoming World Culture Festival was taken after Delhi Police expressed a fear of stampede at the…
The schematic diagram shows the overall conceptualization of how metabolically engineered E. coli produced a variety of PLGAs with different monomer compositions, proposing the chemosynthetic process of non-natural polymers from biomass. The non-natural polymer PLGA…
Tokyo, March 8 (IANS) Opening the door for quicker and more effective surveys of fish distribution, Japanese researchers have found that measuring quantities of fish DNA released into seawater can reveal how many fish inhabit…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy morning here on Tuesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 20 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain partly cloudy during the…