By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) India can enhance its rice yields by 2.5 percent and wheat by 3.3 percent if emissions leading to generation of ground-level ozone could be mitigated, say scientists who…
By Vishal Gulati New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) Almost a year after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Himalayan nation of Nepal, a new international report says a staggering 4,312 landslides were triggered by…
London, May 16 (IANS) Heat waves classified as unusual today could within 30 years become a normal yearly occurrence in Africa, thereby triggering a damaging effect on life expectancy and crop production in the continent…
Cosmic dust reveals Earth’s ancient upper atmosphere may have been oxygen-rich in the Archaean era around 3 billion years ago. Monash University scientists, Dr Andrew Tomkins and Dr Sasha Wilson, who were part of the…
By Mohammed Shafeeq Hyderabad, May 16 (IANS) Fewer migratory birds have arrived here due to the severe drought in Telangana for a second year in a row. With most lakes in and around Hyderabad drying…
New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) It was a hot Monday morning in Delhi with the minimum temperature recorded at 26.4 degree celsius, the season’s average, weather officials said. “The skies will remain clear which would…
Bhubaneswar, May 15 (IANS) Heat wave conditions continued in Odisha on Sunday even as a low pressure has been formed over Bay of Bengal that would bring rainfall to the state, a met department official…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The national capital experienced another scorching day on Sunday with the maximum temperature settling at 42.6 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average. The weather office has forecast a…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) Union Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said his ministry will soon come up with a solution to the menace of forest land…
Mathura, May 15 (IANS) Actress and BJP MP Hema Malini on Sunday expressed concern at large scale disappearance of green cover in her constituency Mathura and around and wondered what the state forest department was…
Shimla, May 15 (IANS) The mercury continued to rise across the hills of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday, with temperatures recorded two to four degrees above average and in some areas, also crossing 42 degrees Celsius….
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said the southwest monsoon may hit Kerala by June 7 due to a slight delay. “The statistical model forecast suggests that the monsoon…
Brussels, May 15 (IANS) Michael Gillon and the team from the University of Liege started their research project five years ago. Only in September last year they discovered three planets orbiting around a nearby dwarf…
Kathmandu, May 15 (IANS) A Nepali government survey has said that forests today take 44.74 percent of the total 141,718 sq km area of the Himalayan country, compared to the total forest cover of 39.6…
New Delhi, May 15 (IANS) It was a sunny and warm morning on Sunday in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling at 27.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, weather officials…
Hyderabad, May 14 (IANS) After a respite of a few days due to unseasonal rains, mercury has started rising again in Telangana and the met office has issued a heat wave warning. Several places in…
Bhubaneswar, May 14 (IANS) The south-west monsoon will hit the Odisha coast by June 8, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday said. “The onset of south-west monsoon will take place over Andaman and…
Shimla, May 14 (IANS) The hills of Himachal Pradesh on Saturday experienced warm weather with the state’s Una town recording a high of 41.8 degrees Celsius, a weatherman said here. “Temperatures increased due to prevailing…
By Ashish Mishra New Delhi, New May 14 (IANS) Delhi will have its first riverfront on the Yamuna but it will not be on the lines of the Sabarmati in Gujarat, along which Prime Minister…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) To help drivers spot elephants and avoid accidents, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)’s Alipurduar Division in West Bengal will soon begin field trials of night vision cameras installed in locomotives, an…