Category: Environment

Modi calls Assam CM, assures all help to tackle flood situation

Guwahati, July 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal over phone and…

6 years ago

Make companies responsible for illegal GM crop cultivation: Activists

New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Farm and green activists on Monday demanded that strict action be taken against those behind…

6 years ago

Flood submerges 90% of Kaziranga, Assam imposes restrictions

Guwahati, July 15 (IANS) With the flood waters submerging 90 per cent of the Kaziranga National Park, the Assam government…

6 years ago

Call all-party meet on water crisis, says Amarinder

New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday suggested an all-party meeting chaired by the Prime…

6 years ago

Goa CM to appoint agency to study beach erosion

Panaji, July 15 (IANS) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Monday said that a scientific agency would be soon appointed…

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Modi calls Assam CM, takes stock of flood situation

Guwahati, July 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday called Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and took stock of…

6 years ago

22 killed in Pakistan cloudburst

Islamabad, July 15 (IANS) At least 22 people were killed and several others were reported missing after a cloudburst caused…

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IMD predicts rain in Delhi-NCR

New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) The long wait for rain in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR)is likely to…

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Floods affect 15,000 in Tripura & Mizoram; rail traffic hit

Agartala/Aizawl, July 14 (IANS) Over 15,000 people have shifted to relief camps and other safer places in Tripura and Mizoram…

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Odisha registers 31% decline in lightning deaths

Bhubaneswar, July 14 (IANS) The number of human casualties due to lightning strikes in Odisha has declined by over 31…

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6.6-magnitude earthquake jolts Australia

Canberra, July 14 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale jolted parts off northwest Australia on Sunday, the…

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Newspaper hawkers take charge of cleaning Yamuna river banks

By Bharat Upadhyay New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The black waters of the Yamuna river on its Delhi stretch have…

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How renewable energy shift can increase ‘energy poverty’

New York, July 14 (IANS) The world must think more holistically about how it addresses renewable energy as efforts to…

6 years ago

Environmental protection to be focus of first-ever conclave of Himalayan states

New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) The first-ever conclave of Himalayan states will be held in Uttarakhand on July 28 where…

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Assam flood: Leaves of forests staff cancelled

Guwahati, July 13 (IANS) With flood waters entering most of the state's national parks and wildlife sanctuaries, Assam Environment and…

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Advisory for ODF-Plus launched

New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) Minister of State for Jal Shakti Rattan Lal Kataria on Saturday launched an advisory document…

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Haryana to develop lakes in Gurugram district to boost groundwater

Chandigarh, July 13 (IANS) To improve the groundwater level in Haryana, the state government will develop big lakes in Gurugram…

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6 Bihar districts stare at flood as rains swell rivers

Patna, July 13 (IANS) Rising water levels in many rivers due to continuous rain had created flood-like situation in as…

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Massive mudslides block Chandigarh-Shimla highway

Shimla, July 13 (IANS) Massive mudslides hit the Chandigarh-Shimla national highway between Parwanoo and Solan towns in Himachal Pradesh on…

6 years ago

Assam flood situation worsens, death toll rises to 7

Guwahati, July 13 (IANS) The flood situation in Assam continued to worsen with new areas flooding every day even as…

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