Category: Environment

Sri Lanka to ban coloured water bottles, plastic wrappers

Colombo, Aug 6 (IANS) Sri Lanka will soon ban coloured plastic water bottles and wrappers on drinking water bottles in…

6 years ago

Fadnavis SOS to Rajnath, Karnataka on flood crisis

Mumbai, Aug 6 (IANS) As the flood situation turned grim in Maharashtra's Kolhapur and surrounding areas, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis…

6 years ago

UP government to plant 22 crore saplings on Aug 9

Lucknow, Aug 6 (IANS) : The Uttar Pradesh government, here on Tuesday, decided to plant 22 crore saplings on the…

6 years ago

57 dead, 18,000 taken to hospitals amid Japan heat wave

Tokyo, Aug 6 (IANS) Fifty-seven people have died due to heat-related medical issues in Japan since last week, the government…

6 years ago

Google to neutralise carbon emission for device shipments by 2020

San Francisco, Aug 6 (IANS) Tech giant Google has announced a string of sustainability pledges for its hardware and has…

6 years ago

Cyclone Fani caused Rs 24,176 cr damage in Odisha: Report

Bhubaneswar, Aug 6 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday released a damage assessment report on cyclone Fani which…

6 years ago

3 tigers present in Jharkhand’s Palamau Reserve: Officials

Ranchi, Aug 6 (IANS) Contradicting the All India Tiger Estimation Report 2018 which states that Jharkhand's Palamau Tiger Reserve (PTR)…

6 years ago

Heavy rains lash Delhi-NCR, traffic snarls at many places

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Heavy rain lashed Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) on Tuesday, leading to massive…

6 years ago

19,000 still in relief camps in flood-hit Andhra districts

Amaravati, Aug 5 (IANS) Nearly 19,000 people in Andhra Pradesh's flood-hit districts of East and West Godavari remained in relief…

6 years ago

SC not against relocation of African cheetah to India

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Monday said it was not against the policy on relocating African…

6 years ago

CISF team to scale Mount Satopanth in Uttarakhand

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will undertake a mountaineering expedition for the first time…

6 years ago

Mumbai has enough water for next 12 months

Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) The seven lakes and reservoirs supplying drinking water to Mumbai are almost full and the storage…

6 years ago

Jharkhand stares at drought with 40% rainfall deficit

Ranchi, Aug 5 (IANS) Heavy showers, which had lashed some areas of Jharkhand a few days ago, had given local…

6 years ago

5.2-magnitude quake jolts Iran, no fatalities

Tehran, Aug 5 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Choram region of Iran's Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad…

6 years ago

6 killed in relentless rain in Maharashtra, life hit

Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) At least six persons were killed in Mumbai and Satara as rains continued to clobber large…

6 years ago

5 dead in Maharashtra rains, schools to be shut

Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) At least five persons were killed in Mumbai and Satara as rains continued to clobber large…

6 years ago

5 dead in Maharashtra rains, IAF, NDRF rescue villagers

Mumbai, Aug 4 (IANS) At least five persons were killed in Mumbai and Satara as rains continued to batter large…

6 years ago

Hazardous chemicals in plastics threaten seabirds

Tokyo, Aug 4 (IANS) Researchers found that hazardous chemicals were detected in plastics eaten by seabirds. "We uncovered that four…

6 years ago

Delhi Assembly to be paperless by 2020; have Research Centre

By Nivedita Singh New Delhi, Aug 4 (IANS) A new research centre at the Delhi Assembly to give recommendations to…

6 years ago

Scottish-Indian entrepreneur Poonam Gupta to help clean Yamuna

By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Aug 4 (IANS) Scottish-Indian entrepreneur and well-known philanthropist Poonam Gupta, who's popular as Paper Queen, wants…

6 years ago



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