New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) Stating that the Yamuna floodplains had been “completely destroyed” with most areas faced with irreversible damage due to the World Culture Festival of Art of Living (AOL) in Delhi in…
Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) Vehicular movement in the city was thrown out of gear on Wednesday following persistent rain and a storm in the evening. While the continuous rain caused water-logging in several parts of…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The Indian Railways is roping in the forest departments of Haryana and Punjab for planting trees on railway land alongside tracks. The zonal railways have also been asked to replicate…
Bhopal, Aug 17 (IANS) Over 80 villages have been submerged and around 25,000 persons affected in Rewa and Satna districts of Madhya Pradesh due to torrential rains that have lashed the Vindhya region for the…
Agra, Aug 17 (IANS) A five-feet-long cobra was rescued on Wednesday from Artoni, Agra on the National Highway to Delhi. Wildlife SOS said a two-member rescue team was despatched to the location soon after they…
Abu Dhabi, Aug 17 (IANS/WAM) Abu Dhabi’s future energy company Masdar on Wednesday announced that it has passed the halfway-mark in its project to construct a 16.6 MW solar power plant network in Mauritania. The…
Colombo, Aug 17 (IANS) Four elephant calves died when they were hit by a passenger train in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, Police said. The baby elephants were walking on a newly constructed railway line in…
Bhubaneswar, Aug 17 (IANS) Fishermen in Odisha have been asked not to venture into the sea by the weather department that has warned of rough to very rough seas. The Met Department said the height…
New York, Aug 17 (IANS) If you thought your pet dog keeps waiting at the door for your arrival every evening only in the hope of filling its stomach, think again! A new research has…
Dhaka, Aug 17 (IANS) An Indian wild elephant that crossed over from northeast India to Bangladesh during a flood has died of heat-induced heart failure, doctors said after an autopsy. The elephant, christened Bangabahadur (Hero…
Pune, Aug 17 (IANS) Renewable energy solutions provider Suzlon Energy on Wednesday said it has bagged an order from ReNew Power Ventures for supply of 48 units of hybrid towers and 15 units of tubular…
Kiev, Aug 17 (IANS) Ukraine lost around $3.4 million in 2015 from illegal logging of its forests, the media reported on Wednesday. “It is an estimated data. In fact, the scale of illegal logging in…
Los Angeles, Aug 17 (IANS) At least 82,000 persons were forced to evacuate California’s San Bernardino county as wildfire broke out in the region, the media reported on Wednesday. Hot weather conditions, dry winds and…
London, Aug 17 (IANS) Certain proteins inform the plant cells, bacteria and fungi whether it is day or night or cloudy or sunny and researchers have now determined the inner workings of one of these…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Maharashtra government on a petition challenging a Bombay High Court order permitting consumption of beef brought from states that allow cow…
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) It was a Cloudy Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.4 degree celsius, average for this time of the season. “The day would remain cloudy and there…
Lucknow, Aug 17 (IANS) At least 13 persons were killed in the past 24 hours in rain related incidents in Uttar Pradesh, a home department official said on Wednesday. It has been raining heavily in…
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The national capital on Tuesday experienced a hot and humid day as the maximum temperature settled at 35 degrees Celsius, one notch above the season’s average, the Met office said….
New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) To protect birds and avoid fatal accidents, the Delhi government on Tuesday banned nylon, plastic and Chinese ‘manjha’ and any other sharp kite-flying thread. “A lot of injury is caused…
Dhaka, Aug 16 (IANS) Activists of Pragatishil Chhatra Jote, an alliance of Left-leaning student organisations in Bangladesh, on Tuesday blocked Dhaka roads to protest against a $1.5 billion power plant near Sundarbans, the world’s largest…