Bangkok, May 31 (IANS) Thailand’s famed “Tiger Temple” was in disarray on Tuesday after officials descended on the sanctuary amid allegations that monks who ran the outfit were abusing their charges. The Tiger Temple in…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) Better weather on Tuesday helped in the evacuation of pilgrims on the Nepalgunj-Simikot-Hilsa route of the annual Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, the government has said. Citing the Indian embassy in Kathmandu,…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed the Art of Living (AOL) foundation to pay the remaining Rs4.75 crore as environment compensation for damage incurred to Yamuna floodplains due…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday directed ten states to provide the number of diesel vehicles plying in the country’s 15 most polluted cities. Hearing a case to extend a…
By Abhishek Waghmare A resident of Pune, Maharashtras second-most developed city, uses five times as much water as her counterpart in Latur, the district most ravaged by drought in the south-central Marathwada region. Thats the…
Bhubaneswar, May 31 (IANS) The NTPC should address the concerns of people in Odisha villages who will be adversely affected by its 1,600 MW project at Lara in Chhattisgarh, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has told…
Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) Scientists in India and Germany have unlocked the secret to enduring dehydration: a sugar called trehalose. They say the discovery could help survival of plants in drought-affected areas and could be…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday directed Art of Living (AOL) foundation to pay the remaining Rs.4.75 crore as environment compensation for damages incurred to Yamuna flood plains because…
By K.S.Jayaraman Bengaluru, May 31 (IANS) Indian-origin researchers in the US have shown that zinc nanoparticles can substitute nitrogen and phosphorous fertilisers to increase plant growth without causing water pollution – a serious problem with…
New York, May 31 (IANS) While the world continues to grapple under the effects of global warming, researchers have found why the waters surrounding Antarctica are among the last places on Earth to be seemingly…
London, May 31 (IANS) Despite being hailed as conservation sanctuaries that protect species from hunting and deforestation, reservoir islands created by large dams across the world undergo sustained loss of species every year, new research…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 24.7 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, weather officials said. “The…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 24.7 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, weather officials said. “The…
By Bajinder Pal Singh Bangkok, May 31 (IANS) As India grapples with an immense and seemingly insurmountable sanitation crisis, a Thailand-based international institute could show the way on tackling this challenge. The Asian Institute of…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) With e-commerce rapidly growing in India, a survey has said that 94 per cent people want to be part of any initiative for re-cycling of packaging material and contribute to…
Vatican City, May 30 (IANS/AKI) Men and women are the “stewards” of the earth, not its “masters”, Pope Francis said on Monday, recalling the theme of his acclaimed encyclical on the environment. “We are stewards,…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) Pre-monsoon showers continue to provide respite from heat in the north and east India and are likely to continue for two more days at least, the weather department and private…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) With its breakthrough technology on waterless tanning for leather processing, the Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) expects to save the rivers from the toxic chromium and sulphates effluents mixed in…
New Delhi, May 30 (IANS) The Art of Living (AoL) foundation headed by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Monday accused an expert committee formed by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) of bias and moved an…
Dehradun, May 30 (IANS) Normal life was disrupted in Uttarakhand as rains battered most parts of the hill state on Monday, officials said. The regional Met Office has warned of more rains in the next…