Cape Canaveral (Florida), Oct 7 (IANS) Hurricane Matthew battered the Florida coastline on Friday morning with heavy rains and gusty winds, leaving more than 300,000 homes and businesses without power. The storm, the most powerful…
New York, Oct 7 (IANS) Just like us, apes can grasp complex mental states and have the ability to guess what others might be thinking, suggests new research. Apes can correctly anticipate that humans will…
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) India and the European Union (EU) on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Water Partnership to clean Indian rivers with European assistance. “I have seen in Europe how…
Shimla, Oct 7 (IANS) Highly fragile moraine-dammed lakes, an increasing phenomenon in the Himalayas, increased from 596 to 705 in barely two years in Himachal Pradesh, raising the spectre of glacial lake outburst floods, warns…
Sydney, Oct 7 (IANS) Australia’s Taronga Zoo on Friday celebrated its 100th birthday in style by serving up surprises for its giraffes, elephants and more than 6,000 guests to mark a century of bringing people…
New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 24.7 degrees Celsius, three notches above the season’s average, the Met office said. “The sky will…
Washington, Oct 7 (IANS) Bracing for a category four Hurricane Mathew, which left around 269 people dead in Haiti, airlines and airports in the US are on an war footing. Around 3,862 flights have been…
Sydney, Oct 7 (IANS) A humpback whale freed itself on Friday after spending hours stranded on an Australian beach. The whale was stuck on a sandbar in the waters off Stradbroke Island in the east…
Tobruk (Libya), Oct 6 (IANS/AKI) Libyas eastern city of Tobruk has been flooded with sewage in the past few days, sparking fears of a health and environmental disaster, reports said on Thursday. Human waste has…
Miami, Oct 6 (IANS) Hurricane Matthew strengthened on Thursday to Category 4, with maximum sustained winds of 140 mph (220 kph), and continues to approach the east coast of Florida, the US National Hurricane Centre…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Amid the World Bank report claiming air pollution in 2013 led to 1.4 million deaths, experts from 17 institutions put forward 10 solutions to “breathable air” in Indian cities, urging…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) India will take up with China the issue of a tributary of the Brahmaputra being blocked at the next meeting of the expert-level mechanism between the two countries, a senior…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear, on Friday, a plea seeking a halt to the open field trials and the commercial release of genetically modified mustard and other crops. The bench…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy day in Delhi on Thursday with the maximum temperature settling at 33.6 degrees Celsius, the average for the season, the Met office said. “There will…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed the top officials of four neighbouring states – Punjab, Haryana, U.P. and Rajasthan – to ensure a stop in the state to crop…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Thursday said that dspite huge investments, the Swacch Bharat Mission is failing to achieve the desired results due to lack of credible…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday inaugurated the first edition of World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) here being organised by TERI with emphasis on the need to limit the rise of…
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling was on Thursday honoured with prestigious “Sustainable Development Leadership Award” by President Pranab Mukherjee here. During “World Sustainable Development Summit” (WSDS) organised by The Energy…
Brasilia, Oct 6 (IANS) Brazilian scientists have announced the discovery of the largest dinosaurs ever found in the country, an animal that was 25 meters long. The dinosaur, named “Austroposeidon magnificus,” belonged to the group…
Sydney, Oct 6 (IANS) An extremely rare white bird has been spotted in West Australia for what is believed to be the first time. Residents of the northern Perth suburb of Mount Lawley were surprised…