Patna, March 8 (IANS) Another tigress was found dead in Valmiki tiger reserve in Bihar’s West Champaran district on Tuesday, officials said. “It was possibly poisoned to death by wildlife smugglers,” said an official. The…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Art of Living Foundation on Tuesday told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it did not conduct any environment impact study before deciding to hold the World Culture Festival…
Ranchi, March 8 (IANS) Legislators in Jharkhand on Tuesday expressed concern over the rising menace of the wild elephants in the state and suggested a elephant-zone be developed in the state. The issue was raised…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) The Indian Army’s decision to make pontoon bridges for the Art of Living Foundation’s upcoming World Culture Festival was taken after Delhi Police expressed a fear of stampede at the…
The schematic diagram shows the overall conceptualization of how metabolically engineered E. coli produced a variety of PLGAs with different monomer compositions, proposing the chemosynthetic process of non-natural polymers from biomass. The non-natural polymer PLGA…
Tokyo, March 8 (IANS) Opening the door for quicker and more effective surveys of fish distribution, Japanese researchers have found that measuring quantities of fish DNA released into seawater can reveal how many fish inhabit…
New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) It was a partly cloudy morning here on Tuesday with the minimum temperature recorded at 20 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. The sky would remain partly cloudy during the…
President Pranab Mukherjee. (File Photo: IANS) New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee will not attend the World Culture Festival to be organised by spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living foundation,…
By Sahana Ghosh Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) India’s water management issues have pushed the country to the top among 11 nations on the Environmental Justice Atlas, an interactive portal conceived by an international team that…
Beijing, March 7 (IANS) Seven people were jailed in China’s Hunan province on Monday for poisoning endangered birds and trafficking their carcasses for meat. The People’s Court in Yueyang city sentenced one of the seven…
Lucknow, March 7 (IANS) A 700-year-old tradition was broken at the famous Mankameshwar temple here on Monday when water from the Gomti river was used for ‘jal abhishek’ on Mahashivratri to spread the message of…
Tokyo, March 7 (IANS) In an important step towards development of green energy, Japanese researchers have developed a new prototype of a turbine to efficiently harness energy from ocean currents. In various experiments to test…
London, March 7 (IANS) The impact of human activities on the Earth has triggered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, which is marked by the spread of man-made materials such as aluminium, concrete, plastic, and…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) It was a sunny Monday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 15.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, weather office said. “The day ahead will be…
New Delhi, March 7 (IANS) It was a sunny Monday morning here with the minimum temperature recorded at 15.8 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average, weather office said. “The day ahead will be…
Patna, March 6 (IANS) Dozens of activists and experts gathered at Bodh Gaya in Bihar on Sunday, urging central and state governments to adopt ecologically sustainable and socio-economically equitable transitions for the electricity sector in…
London, March 6 (IANS) New technologies have been “hyped” by the aviation industry and media as the key to sustainable air travel, perpetuating a culture of non-accountability for increased emissions and subsequent environmental damage, says…
Panaji, March 6 (IANS) Rapidly decreasing presence of marine phytoplankton, a micro-algae consumed by small fish and responsible for reducing carbon dioxide in sea water, in the western Indian Ocean due to global warming may…
Shimla, March 6 (IANS) The cold again gripped Himachal Pradesh on Sunday with the state’s higher reaches experiencing snow. However, low and mid hills saw widespread rainfall, a weather official said. He said the chill…
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) There was rainfall in parts of Delhi on Sunday morning. The minimum temperature settled at 17.2 degrees Celsius, the weather office said. As per an official of the India Meteorological…