New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday expressed his gratitude towards planet Earth. “On Earth Day, reverence and gratitude to our planet that has given us everything,” Modi said on Earth…
By Arul Louis United Nations, April 22 (IANS) India is now challenging the developed nations on environmental issues and won’t be pressured by them, according to Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar. “We are showing the way…
New York, April 22 (IANS) In honour of Earth Day and the historic signing of the Paris Agreement on climate change on Friday, the United Nations Postal Administration has issued special edition stamps featuring the…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Tech giant Google on Friday dedicated a doodle on the occasion of Earth Day. Earth Day, observed annually on April 22 since the eventg began in the late 1960s, is…
New Delhi: A view of traffic at ITO on the fifth day of implementation of odd-even traffic scheme aimed at battling pollution in New Delhi on April 19, 2016. (Photo: IANS) IndiaSpend Team If you…
San Francisco, April 22 (IANS) German automaker Volkswagen has agreed to fix or buy back nearly half a million diesel cars sold in the US but fitted with illegal emissions software. The settlement between Volkswagen…
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) It was a Sunny Friday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 24.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, the weather office said. The sky would remain…
Washington, April 22 (IANS) Celebrating its 26th year in the low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured in stunning clarity what looks like a gigantic cosmic soap bubble being blown into space by a…
Quito, April 22 (IANS) The toll from the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Ecuador last week, has climbed to 587 over the weekend, including 27 foreigners, the government has said. Thursday’s report said 539 of…
Ghaziabad, April 21 (IANS) The ground water level in Ghaziabad is going down sharply, according to statistics from the Central Ground Water Authority of India (CGWAI). Revealing the statistics received from the CGWAI’s central public…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The seventh day of the odd-even scheme on Thursday saw Delhi’s ruling AAP and the opposition BJP locked in verbal sparring over fires at different landfill sites, which the AAP…
Bhubaneswar, April 21 (IANS) Torrid heat wave conditions continued in Odisha as nine places recorded temperature above 45 degrees Celsius while the toll due to sunstroke has touched 66, officials said. According to the met…
New Delhi: A view of traffic at ITO 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 21…
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) The national capital experienced another hot day on Thursday with the maximum temperature settling at 38.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above the season’s average, the met office said. It forecast…
By Kushagra Dixit New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) This Earth Day – April 22 – is special, not only because over one billion people would join hands to tackle higher carbon emission and land erosion,…
Brussels, April 21 (IANS) The European Union (EU) on Thursday called for the swift ratification of the Paris climate agreement. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Commission Vice-President responsible for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic, and…
Colombo, April 21 (IANS) The Sri Lankan government on Thursday said the European Union has lifted a ban imposed on Sri Lankan fisheries products, thus paving the way for fish exports to the EU. Fisheries…
Agartala, April 21 (IANS) Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said on Thursday that he tried to open a dialogue with the Islamic State group but it rebuffed him by sending him a photograph of…
Dodoma, Tanzania, April 21 (IANS) Tanzanian authorities on Thursday launched a nationwide special campaign to clean up Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa which attracts more than 50,000 tourists annually. The campaign dubbed ‘leave…
Jakarta, April 21 (IANS) The number of forest hotspots has increased to 63 in Indonesia, most of them in Sumatra Island, official of meteorology and geophysics agency said on Thursday. The Terra and Aqua satellite…