New Delhi, Nov 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) Delhi’s air quality further plummeted following Diwali, as the Air Quality Index (AQI) reading surpassed 400 in multiple parts of the national capital on Monday, placing it in the ‘severe’…
Chandigarh, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Punjab Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department has sanctioned 21,958 Crop Residue Management (CRM) machines to equip the state farmers with the latest technology for effective crop residue management. Punjab Agriculture and…
Islamabad, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) As residents of Lahore gasp for breath under persistent smog with the air quality index mark surpassing 1,000 once again on Sunday, making it the most polluted city in the world,…
New Delhi, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) With a week’s time left to him in the highest judicial office of the country, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud is yet to pronounce several important decisions. Here…
Jaipur, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan has held the first auction for the mining lease of one of the two gold mines while the auction for the composite license of the other mine was also held,…
New Delhi, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the two-week negotiations at the United Nations biodiversity summit known as COP16 in the Colombian city of Cali have broken down amid calls to save nature from the current…
Cali, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP 16) concluded with a landmark acknowledgement of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities’ essential role in protecting…
New Delhi, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has praised India for adopting policies to cut subsidies on fossil fuels on petroleum products and levying a cess on coal to create fiscal space…
New Delhi, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The air quality in Delhi deteriorated drastically as the air quality index (AQI) crossed the 400 mark on Sunday, two days after Diwali, pushing it into the hazardous category. A…
Chennai, Nov 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has predicted heavy to very heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms across 12 districts of Tamil Nadu on Sunday. According to the weather forecast, Chennai, Chengalpattu, Tiruvallur,…
Lucknow, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Lucknow-based CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research said on Saturday that the air and noise pollution spiked in the UP capital during the Diwali festival which exceeded the National Ambient Air…
Chandigarh, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Haryana government on Saturday appealed to the farmers of the state to refrain from burning crop residue after harvesting paddy as burning crop residue not only leads to air pollution…
Tokyo, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Japan logged record-breaking temperatures in October, marking the hottest October since record-keeping began in 1898, data from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) showed. The monthly average temperature across Japan exceeded typical…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) India has updated its biodiversity action plan and has committed to conserve 30 per cent of its terrestrial, inland water, and coastal and marine areas by 2030. The updated National…
Kolkata, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) With bursting of firecrackers that started on Diwali, continuing till late on Friday night, pollution levels in Kolkata and the city’s adjoining areas continued to spike on Saturday. As per the…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the active participation of a high-level Indian delegation, a G20 meeting has arrived at a consensus in finalising the first Ministerial declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), according to…
Chennai, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) has issued a yellow alert for 19 districts of Tamil Nadu, forecasting heavy rains over the next two days. According to a statement from the Weather…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Long-term exposure to air pollution particles like PM2.5 can prove to be detrimental to memory and cognition in people of all ages, finds a study, even as the air quality…
New Delhi, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) A layer of smog covered Delhi-NCR on Saturday morning, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) in the national Capital registering a ‘poor’ rating two days after Diwali celebrations, despite a…
Madrid, Nov 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) Spain remains deeply shaken by the deadly flash floods that have left 205 people confirmed dead and wrecked havoc across the regions of Valencia, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia in the east…