Guwahati, July 28 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has instructed his ministers to visit flood-hit districts and supervise relief and rescue operations even as there are reports that over 16 lakh people have been…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The bill to establish national and state compensatory afforestation fund, which may lead to the unlocking of over Rs 40,000 crore from the Centre, was passed by parliament on Thursday….
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Labelled as “man-eater”, allegedly under pressure from the tourist lobby of Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan, after it killed four humans in five years, the mighty male…
Image shows a cold water geyser driven by carbon dioxide erupting from an unplugged oil exploration well drilled in 1936 into a natural CO2 reservoir in Utah. Credit: Professor Mike Bickle London, July 28 (IANS)…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) must phase out its old diesel trucks before planning to buy new ones, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) said here on Thursday. Disposing off…
By Aroonim Bhuyan New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) Mizoram has become the third state in India’s northeast to get a Cherry Blossom Avenue, whith Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla planting a sappling of the flowering tree…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, July 28 (IANS) The population of the golden mahseer, a popular freshwater sport and food fish, is going to prosper in the rivers of Himachal Pradesh, with the state fisheries department…
New Delhi, July 28 (IANS) It was a cloudy Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season’s average, the weather office said. “It would be generally…
Dehradun, July 28 (IANS) Rains continued to wreck havoc in Uttarakhand on Thursday as destruction was reported from two villages after a cloud burst in Yamuna and Ganga valleys. Officials said more than a dozen…
Jammu, July 28 (IANS) The strategic Jammu-Srinagar national highway was closed on Thursday due to landslides, resulting in the suspension of Amarnath Yatra. The landslides were triggered by incessant rains in Ramban district, a senior…
Tura (Meghalaya)/New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma on Wednesday undertook an aerial survey of the flood-affected areas in the state’s West Garo Hills district, even as National People’s Party president Conrad…
New Delhi, July 27 (IANS) The widespread water-logging in Delhi due to the monsoon led to about 78 per cent loss in work time or productivity, according to a survey. The survey conducted by a…
Shimla, July 27 (IANS) Incessant rain in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday claimed the lives of two members of a family while at least eight people were rescued from upper Manali following a flash flood, officials…
Panaji, July 27 (IANS) Goa Environment and Forest Minister Rajendra Arlekar on Wednesday welcomed the interim order of the Mhadei interstate water tribunal directing the Karnataka government not to divert 7.56 TMC water from the…
Guwahati, July 27 (IANS) This is an elephantine problem not confronted before, and the Assam government has set up an experts’ panel to solve it: How to retrieve a pachyderm washed away from the state…
New York, July 27 (IANS) An international team of scientists has identified a rare new species of beaked whale that ranges from northern Japan across the Pacific Ocean to Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. Japanese whalers call…
Washington, July 27 (IANS) Wildfires fuelled by high heat have charred 37,472 acres (around 152 square km), up 13 per cent compared with July 25, near Los Angeles, a media report said. Over a dozen…
By K.S. Jayaraman Bengaluru, July 27 (IANS) Scientists at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have proposed an innovative system for harvesting safe drinking water from air. Capturing atmospheric moisture is not a new…
Jammu, July 27 (IANS) At least two children were washed away by flash floods in Jammu on Wednesday. “The bodies of two children who were washed away in flash floods in Janipur area, have been…
Lucknow, July 27 (IANS) A flood alert has been sounded in the Uttar Pradesh districts which border Nepal after rains pounded the Himalayan country in the past 48-hours, an official said on Wednesday. Following the…