New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) From the streambeds in the Western Ghats of India, an international team of scientists has unearthed a species of tadpole that burrows through sand and lives in total darkness until…
Vrindavan, March 31 (IANS) A green activist has been threatened with police action after the Vrindavan Municipality in a resolution accused him of burning trash to tarnish the elected civic body’s image. Vrindavan Municipality executive…
Beijing, March 31 (IANS) A strong cold front will bring heavy rain and snow to some parts of central and east China, plunging temperatures over the next three days, the national observatory forecast on Thursday….
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) It was a sunny Thursday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 19.5 degrees Celsius, one notch above normal, the weather official said. The sky will remain clear throughout…
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) It was a sunny Thursday morning here with the maximum temperature recorded at 35.6 degrees Celsius, four notches above normal, the weather official said. The sky will remain clear throughout…
Panama City, March 31 (IANS/EFE) Water levels in the two artificial lakes that nourish the Panama Canal and supply more than half the country’s households are at historic lows and likely to continue receding over…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) An agreement to market the compost produced in Delhi was on Wednesday inked between the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC), Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFS) and National Fertilisers…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday announced new building bye-laws for Delhi. Revised after 33 years, the laws have been made “user-friendly through unification and simplification of…
Ujjain, March 30 (IANS) Apart from making security and other arrangements ahead of the Simhasth Kumbh here in April-May, authorities have roped in snake experts to catch the reptiles and release them in the wild…
Tokyo, March 30 (IANS) Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) on Wednesday approved the use of an underground “wall of ice” at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant to help contain spills of contaminated water into the…
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) It was a clear Wednesday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 23.8 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain partly cloudy with mist or haze…
Bhopal, March 29 (IANS) A tigress and her two cubs have been found dead under mysterious circumstances at the Pench National Park in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Tuesday. After a post-mortem examination of…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Asian ministerial conference on disaster risk reduction will be held here in November, an official statement said on Tuesday. It would be the first such conference after the 3rd…
Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) Indian school students, participating in an international exchange programme between US’ Chabot Space & Science Center and Science City in Kolkata, have designed prototypes for purifying hospital air, generating electricity from…
Mathura, March 29 (IANS) Union minister Maneka Gandhi, who is also a wildlife activist, on Tuesday spent some time with elephants rescued from illegal captivity at the Elephant Conservation and Care Centre in Mathura. Thanking…
New Delhi, March 29 (IANS) The Delhi government on Tuesday said CNG vehicles will remain exempt from restrictions during the second phase of odd-even traffic scheme which starts from April 15 while the other exemptions…
By Deepa Padmanaban Findings of a new Indian Institute of Science study that used satellite-borne sensors, compared images over decades and modeled past and future growth reveal the rate of urbanisation in four Indian cities….
Los Angeles, March 29 (IANS) Fungi will be sent for the first time to the International Space Station for the development of medicine, said researchers at the University of Southern California (USC). The experiments, to…
Phnom Penh, March 29 (IANS) Cambodian authorities on Tuesday seized 102 elongated tortoises and 17 pythons from a truck which was on its way to Vietnam. Police stopped the truck some 20 km from capital…
New York, March 29 (IANS) The formation of a distinct pattern of sea surface temperatures in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean can predict an increased chance of summer heat waves in the eastern…