Agartala/Aizawl, Aug 23 (IANS) A 5.5-magnitude earthquake in the Myanmar-India border region on Tuesday rocked Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Meghalaya and some other parts of northeast India, but there was no report of major damage, officials…
Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 23 (IANS) Kerala’s first premier green resort was commissioned on Tuesday. The Poovar Island Resort on Kovalam beach will run on a combination of solar power and wind generated energy. Set in the…
New Delhi, Aug 23 (IANS) It was a pleasant and cloudy Tuesday morning here, however, the day was expected to get hotter, weather office said. The minimum temperature was recorded at 27.7 degree Celsius, one…
Lucknow, Aug 23 (IANS) Flood situation in many parts of Uttar Pradesh has worsened and schools were closed for the next few days in Allahabad and Balia, officials said on Tuesday. With the raging waters…
Nay Pyi Taw, Aug 23 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter Scale jolted Myanmar, neighbouring Bangladesh and parts of the region on Tuesday morning. The epicentre of the earthquake was determined 57 km…
London, Aug 23 (IANS) A study revealed that the temperature of the Earth dropped during last year’s eclipse of the sun, Britain’s Met office has said. The Met Office on Monday said it was the…
Ahmedabad, Aug 22 (IANS) Heavy rainfall in catchment areas of dams in neighbouring Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh on Monday pushed up water levels in rivers and water bodies in Gujarat, forcing the authorities to raise…
Kolkata, Aug 22 (IANS) In response to the West Bengal government blaming the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) for release of water from its controlling dams, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said the corporation…
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) As many as 56 rescue teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have so far rescued more than 26,000 people from flood affected areas, officials said on Monday. “So far,…
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday pulled up the Delhi government for its apparent delay in the installation of Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) at 13 entry points on Delhi’s border…
Tokyo, Aug 22 (IANS) Typhoon Mindulle on Monday left 30 persons injured and caused significant interruptions in the transport network in and around Tokyo, while 850,000 persons were asked to evacuate. Mindulle, the ninth typhoon…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 22 (IANS) The Centre on Monday sanctioned Rs 236 crore to the Odisha government under Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management and Planning Authority (CAMPA). Union Forest and Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave sanctioned the…
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured total support in the rescue and relief operations in the flood-affected states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Praying for…
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) A minor earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter Scale struck Delhi and Haryana on Monday, officials said. The epicentre of the quake was in Mahendragarh, Haryana, and it occurred at…
New York, Aug 22 (IANS) A team of researchers is working to use naturally-occurring fungi for an environment-friendly recycling process to extract cobalt and lithium from waste batteries. “The idea first came from a student…
London, Aug 22 (IANS) A team of astronomers has identified a young star, located almost 11,000 light years away, which could help us understand how the most massive stars in the universe are formed. This…
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) It was a cloudy Monday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.1 degrees Celsius, average for this time of the season. The sky is likely to remain cloudy…
Jaipur, Aug 21 (IANS) The best way to predict future is to create it, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan observed on Sunday while addressing the First Meeting of BRICS Women Parliamentarians’ Forum here. The two-day…
Patna, Aug 21 (IANS) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday demanded removal of the Farakka barrage on the Ganga river and formulation of a national silt management policy to protect the state from devastating…
Bhopal, Aug 21 (IANS) The widespread devastation in Madhya Pradesh following heavy rains can be traced to the loot of natural resources and ecocidal model of development, ‘Waterman’ Rajendra Singh said on Sunday. “The loot…