New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The national capital got its first battery operated “zero-emission” electric bus on Thursday and Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai said more such buses may follow if the six-month trial of…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) After Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s refusal to pay the fine of Rs.5 crore slapped by the National Green Tribunal, Art of Living on Thursday asserted that things were changing every…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The national capital experienced a sunny day on Thursday with the maximum temperature settling at 31.1 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, said the Met office, adding that…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to entertain a plea seeking to block the holding of the three-day World Cultural Festival by the Sri Sri Ravishankar’s Art of Living Foundation…
Dhaka, March 10 (IANS) Hundreds of Bangladeshi activists set off on a 200 km march from Dhaka to the Sundarbans on Thursday to protest against the $1.5 billion power plant near the world’s largest mangrove…
Bhubaneswar, March 10 (IANS) In a bid to attract more foreign tourists to the state, Odisha Tourism participated in International Tourism Festival (International Tourismus Borse) held in Berlin. The state put up a stall depicting…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday flagged off a pollution free electric bus here. It is the first such bus in India which is 100 percent pollution free and…
Shimla, March 10 (IANS) The cold is likely to grip Himachal Pradesh again with heavy rain forecast in the next three days by the Met office here on Thursday. “Some areas in the state are…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Amid anxious moments at the sprawling Yamuna plains, the venue of the World Culture Festival, weather officials here on Thursday forecast that heavy rain is “very likely” in and around…
London, March 10 (IANS) A day after heavy rains and consequent disruption, dozens of flood warnings remained in place in central England on Thursday. The worst-affected areas were in the Midlands where roads were flooded,…
Sandeep Pai & Prathamesh Mulye Kolhapur/Delhi: Five years ago, when Ramakant Desai, 55, hired a drilling rig to sink a borewell to irrigate his maize fields, he struck water at 200 ft. Today, the rig…
New York, March 10 (IANS) Reconstructing an early East African landscape where human ancestors lived 1.8 million years ago, researchers have found that life was quite tough in the ancient times. Our human ancestors, who…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) may ban the controversial Art of Living (AoL) cultural event here if it doesn’t pay up the Rs.5 crore fine slapped on it, a lawyer…
Sydney, March 10 (IANS) How did Madagascar once slot next to India? Where was Australia a billion years ago? To answer such questions, geologists here have developed Cloud-based virtual globes which means anyone with a…
Actor Salman Khan. (File Photo: IANS) Jodhpur (Rajasthan), March 10 (IANS) Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Thursday insisted that he had been wrongly accused of having illegal weapons and killing two blackbucks here in 1998….
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday said he does not mind going to jail if the court wants him to. Asked during an interview by a…
By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, March 10 (IANS) A novel product developed by Nualgi Nano Biotech (NNB), a low-profile biotech company here, is helping clean up sewage-polluted Ulsoor Lake where thousands of fish were found dead…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Thursday morning started on a sunny note in the national capital with the maximum temperature recorded 15.8 degrees celsius, two notches above the season’s average. Met has forecast partly cloudy…
Srinagar, March 10 (IANS) The local weather department on Thursday forecast heavy rains in plains and snowfall in higher reaches of Kashmir Valley during the next three days. The forecast has triggered panic as heavy…
Washington, March 10 (IANS) An official of a California-based auction house pleaded guilty of smuggling carvings and other items made from protected wildlife worth $1 million. Joseph Chait, a senior auction administrator of the I.M….