Category: Environment

Eco-friendly toilet to be set up on Mount Everest

Lhasa, April 11 (IANS) China has decided to build an eco-friendly toilet at a camp, 7,028 metres up the north…

7 years ago

Bird rescued after falling on Delhi Metro tracks

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Services on Delhi Metro's Magenta line were temporarily halted after a bird fell on the…

7 years ago

Himachal voters seek forest Act implementation

Mandi, April 11 (IANS) Up the ante against the BJP government in Himachal Pradesh, near 600 voters from the Mandi…

7 years ago

Car pollution caused asthma in 350,000 Indian kids

New York, April 11 (IANS) Traffic pollution caused asthma among 350,000 children in India, the second largest after China, in…

7 years ago

Get green cracker formula ready: SC to Centre

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Centre to approve chemical composition of green crackers…

7 years ago

Indian student invents robots for greener UAE

Abu Dhabi, April 11 (IANS) An Indian student has invented robots to help the United Arab Emirates (UAE) become greener,…

7 years ago

Odisha reels under heat wave

Bhubaneswar, April 10 (IANS) Odisha continued to reel under intense heat wave as eight places recorded maximum temperature above 40…

7 years ago

Haryana’s cancer village awaits state attention

Nuh, April 10 (IANS) Abdul Razzaq died of lung cancer last May. He was the fourth victim of cancer from…

7 years ago

Nepal flags off team to remeasure Everest’s height

Kathmandu, April 10 (IANS) An expedition team, assigned to remeasure the height of the world's tallest mountain peak, left for…

7 years ago

Over 1,300 industrial units switch to PNG in Delhi

New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) on Wednesday said it made 1,322 industrial units switch…

7 years ago

UN stops printing press releases, goes paperless

United Nations, April 10 (IANS) The United Nations has announced that it has started going partially paperless by stopping printing…

7 years ago

Sunny Wednesday morning in Delhi, thunder likely

New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) It was a sunny Wednesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling…

7 years ago

DPCC slaps fine on over 1,500 units for pollution

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) here on Tuesday slapped Rs 1 lakh environment damage…

7 years ago

Tiger’s decomposed body found in Bengal’s Sundarbans

Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) In a setback to tiger conservation efforts in Sundarbans, a decomposed body of a big cat…

7 years ago

Over 320,000 affected by severe weather in Sri Lanka

Colombo, April 9 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Centre on Tuesday said that the number of people affected by the…

7 years ago

Air temperatures behind Arctic climate change

New York, April 9 (IANS) Increasing air temperatures and precipitation are the drivers of major climate changes seen in the…

7 years ago

Exempt religious events from pollution norms, EC urged

Panaji, April 9 (IANS) Goa should be exempt from noise pollution rules so that the residents can observe religious events,…

7 years ago

Sunny Tuesday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) It was a sunny Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature settling…

7 years ago

London becomes first city to use pollution charge zone

London, April 9 (IANS) London is the first city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week…

7 years ago

Indonesia to install tsunami early warning system

Jakarta, April 8 (IANS) Indonesia is set to install buoys and cable base tsunameters (CBT) near Mount Krakatau volcano on…

7 years ago



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