Lucknow, April 30 (IANS) Owing to severe heatwave in the city, the district administration on Saturday announced preponing of summer breaks in all city schools. District Magistrate of Lucknow, Raj Shekhar informed that the schools…
Agra, April 30 (IANS) A fire in the Keetham wildlife sanctuary in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh destroyed several hecatres of forest and killed birds, reptiles and rodents, a forest officer said on Saturday. “Four…
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) For the hundreds of thousands of voters queuing up in blazing sunshine in Kolkata on Saturday for the fifth phase of the West Bengal assembly polls, a unique halo around the…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Saturday refused to give more time to taxi operators in the National Capital Region (NCR) to switch from diesel to the cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG)….
Nairobi, April 30 (IANS) At least seven people were reported killed after a seven-storey building in Kenyan capital Nairobi collapsed in heavy rain. Local coverage from the scene showed a crowd gathering at the Huruma…
New York, April 30 (IANS) Babies of long-necked plant-eaters called Titanosaurs that include the largest animals ever to walk on land hatched from eggs no bigger than a soccer ball but they grew rapidly without…
Lucknow, April 30 (IANS) Due to severe drought conditions in parts of the state, the Uttar Pradesh government has formed a special drought monitoring cell which will be headed by joint secretary of the revenue…
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) It was a sunny morning on Saturday in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 22.7 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said….
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) India will achieve the target for adding 10,500 MW solar power capacity in the current fiscal, New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal said on Friday. “The way things are…
Hyderabad, April 29 (IANS) The death toll from a heat wave sweeping Telangana rose to 143 on Friday as six more deaths were reported. According to officials in the disaster management department, reports of deaths…
Guwahati, April 29 (IANS) After pre-monsoon rains hit output in Assam, tea growers are looking up to the weather god ahead of the premium second flush of tea which is due in May-June. Although the…
Islamabad, April 29 (IANS) A Bengal tiger has died at the Karachi zoo, the media reported on Friday. The tiger was unwell for a week and died due to acute kidney failure, Geo News reported….
Beijing, April 29 (IANS) A fossilised skeleton of a hadrosaur or duck-billed dinosaur in China’s Shandong province has been recognised by Guinness World Records as the “largest hadrosaurid skeleton on display”. The Zhuchengosaurus maximus skeleton…
New Delhi: A view of Delhi traffic on the fifth day of implementation of odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi on April 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) New Delhi, April 29 (IANS)…
Kathmandu, April 29 (IANS) Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say. Sherpas have expressed concern that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches,…
London, April 29 (IANS) The very oldest pieces of rock on Earth — zircon crystals — are likely to have formed in the craters left by violent asteroid impacts that peppered our nascent planet rather…
By Vishal Gulati Shimla, April 29 (IANS) If you want to breathe clean air, travel to Himachal Pradesh’s remote Kinnaur district that is endowed with the mighty Himalayas, gurgling rivers, virgin nature and a rich…
By Vikas Datta Title: Environmental Politics – A Very Short Introduction; Author: Andrew Dobson ; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 152; Price: Rs.225 Global warming and COP-21, or specifically at home in India, the ‘odd-even’…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy Friday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 21.7 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, the weather office said….
Port Vila, April 29 (IANS) A magnitude 7 earthquake struck the north of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Friday. The US Geological Survey located the epicentre of the quake at a shallow depth…