New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has validated the usage of municipal waste materials for highway construction, said an official statement. The work of technically verifying solid waste…
Jaipur, June 27 (IANS) With an aim to the protect the state bird, the Great Indian Bustard, locally known as ‘Godawan’, the Rajasthan government has now decided not to set up any windmills for wind…
Shimla, June 27 (IANS) The southwest monsoon will get aggressive in Himachal Pradesh with the weather bureau on Monday predicating heavy rainfall at some places in the state this week. “There are chances of moderate…
Bengaluru, June 27 (IANS) Heavy rainfall has been forecast in coastal areas and south interior parts of Karnataka over the next 24 hours, as the southwest monsoon remained vigorous over the state, the Met department…
Beijing, June 27 (IANS) A revised draft of China’s Wild Animal Protection Law submitted for a third reading on Monday regulates the release of captive animals into the wild. Authorities at provincial level and above…
By Imran Khan New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) At a time when climate change is set to impact rice production in Asia, simple water management by farmers as an adaptation strategy will minimise the damage,…
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) It was a pleasant though a bit sweaty morning in Delhi with a partly cloudy sky and minimum temperature recorded at 30.0 degree Celsius, two notches above the season’s average,…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) State-run Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) announced on Sunday that the capital’s consumers will be distributed 9W light emitting diode (LED) bulbs from the first week of July. The distribution,…
Jammu/Srinagar, June 26 (IANS) Jammu and Kashmir’s summer capital Srinagar on Sunday recorded this season’s highest temperature at 33.5 degrees while the heat wave continued in Jammu where it was 35 degrees. “The maximum temperature…
Beijing, June 26 (IANS) A 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit Kyrgyzstan on Sunday, said the China Earthquake Networks Centre. The epicentre was determined at 39.43 degrees north latitude and 73.40 degrees east longitude, with a depth of…
Shimla, June 26 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government is soliciting public opinion on how best to tackle the ‘monkey menace’ which has caused crop losses worth hundreds of crores of rupees in recent years, Forest…
By Porisma Pompi Gogoi New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) It can be toxic and hazardous to health. Yet, only a fraction of India’s e-waste is recycled, making the country its fifth largest generator in the…
New York, June 26 (IANS) Young bowhead whales may cease growing lengthwise and undergo severe bone loss to help grow their enormous head and baleen plates, finds a new study. Bowhead whales — a whale…
Beijing, June 26 (IANS) The death toll from a fierce tornado and hailstorm in China’s Jiangsu province rose to 99, with 846 others injured, officials said on Sunday. The deadliest tornado recorded in the area…
New Delhi, June 26 (IANS) It was a hot and humid Sunday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded 29.6 degrees celsius, a notch above the season’s average. The Met has forecast…
Beijing, June 26 (IANS) China’s national observatory on Sunday renewed its yellow alert for a vast region across the country, where temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius are predicted for daytime. China has a four-tier warning…
Jaipur, June 25 (IANS) A tigress has been found dead in Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan’s Sawai Madhopur district, officials said. “The body of T-11, who is around 11 years old, was located by one…
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The Environment Ministry said on Saturday that it has not finalised the draft of a new National Forest Policy (NFP) and what was put out earlier in the public domain…
London, June 25 (IANS) The song of female blue tit birds is likely to indicate the presence of a predator, suggests a research adding that the birds may be singing in their own defence. The…
Ranchi, June 25 (IANS) Jharkhand used the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to create one lakh small water bodies to conserve water and irrigate fields in a period of just 60 days,…