Rio de Janeiro, June 22 (IANS) Rio 2016 organisers issued an apology on Tuesday after a jaguar that featured in an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead in the Amazonian city of Manaus. The jaguar,…
New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) Monsoon arrived drought-hit Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra, and the Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as well as the northern states of the country, IMD said…
Shimla, June 21 (IANS) The southwest monsoon on Tuesday reached Himachal Pradesh in advance with many areas witnessing moderate rainfall in the past 24 hours, the weather office here said. “The southwest monsoon arrived almost…
Mumbai, June 21 (IANS) An indigenous technology to restrict benzene, a carcinogenic element, in petrol and naphtha has been developed in collaboration with the state-run Indian Institute of Petroleum (IIP) in Dehradun, the Reliance Industries…
Beijing, June 21 (IANS) An annual dog meat festival began in China’s Yulin city on Tuesday amid opposition from local and foreign activists, who have called for an end to the slaughter and consumption of…
Bangkok, June 21 (IANS) Wildlife advocates on Tuesday called to protect the dwindling populations of wild giraffes, whose numbers have fallen by 40 per cent over the past 15 years. Marking World Giraffe Day on…
Sriharikota: Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s PSLV-C31 carrying IRNSS-1E , lifts off from Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota, a barrier island off the Bay of Bengal coast located in Andhra Pradesh on Jan 20,…
Bengaluru, June 21 (IANS) The southwest monsoon has covered entire Karnataka, the Meteorological Centre here said on Tuesday, as it predicted more rains across the state. It said there would be a generally cloudy sky…
Bengaluru, June 21 (IANS) The southwest monsoon has covered entire Karnataka, the Meteorological Centre here said on Tuesday, as it predicted more rains across the state. It said there would be a generally cloudy sky…
By Saumya Tewari & Rohan Bapat More than half of Indian households did not have a source of drinking water at home – 63 per cent in rural India – and a fifth of rural…
Washington, June 21 (IANS) Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and its extended K2 mission, astronomers have discovered a newborn fully-formed exoplanet — planets that orbit stars beyond our Sun — ever detected around a young…
By Sujit Chakraborty Agartala, June 21 (IANS) At least three lion cubs and 10 python snakelets have been born in Sepahijala Wildlife Zoo and Sanctuary in Tripura. “The three newly born lion cubs were named…
New Delhi: Rains lash Delhi on June 20, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, June 21 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Tuesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 27 degrees Celsius, one notch…
Beijing, June 21 (IANS) Prosecutors in a county in east China’s Shandong province have won a lawsuit against the local environmental protection department in the first prosecutors vs. administration public interest case, according to the…
Bengaluru, June 20 (IANS) Officials in Karnataka’s Kalaburagi and Bijapur districts said no flash floods occurred in the areas which received heavy rainfall on Monday. “There were no flash floods in Chiitapur, just water-logging due…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) As pre-monsoon showers hits the national capital, health experts have urged people to not to ignore symptoms like redness, swelling or burning sensation in the eyes and consult an ophthalmologist…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) A five-feet-long ‘agitated’ cobra was rescued by the Wildlife SOS from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) near the JNU campus. The snake, found entangled in a synthetic…
Chandigarh, June 20 (IANS) Authorities were busy giving last-minute touches to the Capitol Complex here for the International Yoga Day event on Tuesday morning, to be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as fears of…
Geneva, June 20 (IANS) Solar Impulse II, a plane exclusively powered by solar energy, began the trans-Atlantic stage of its planned world tour on Monday, taking off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Heavy pre-monsoon showers and gusts of wind brought respite from scorching heat and humidity to the national capital on Monday and weather analysts predict this situation will continue. The rain,…